Google makes its money from advertising. Everyone knows this. Earlier today, Firefox was not rendering a page correctly, so I switched over to Internet Explorer hoping it would. As I did so, something dawned upon me: I haven’t seen an online advertisement in over three years, let alone clicked one. For example, one website that [...]

Remarkable new search demo website called Powerset released today. It’s still in beta, and only indexes one website, Wikipedia, today. As they get more funding they will add more servers and computing power to index more websites. Instead of doing simple keyword matches like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo do today, the engine tries understands what [...]