Archive for April, 2005

Vertical search - some feedback

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

I got some feedback about my recent post about vertical search.

Discovery and extraction of vertical entities is extremely hard. I agree. However, this is a hard problem in the general context. If it is a random webpage and we are trying to categorize it and extract an entity from it, then this is […]

The Aggregation Kool-Aid

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

Quite a few people now recognize the power of aggregation. These days i think a lot of folks have associated magical healing powers to aggregation as well and they think that aggregation will solve all commerce distribution problems.
Jeff Jarvis has 2 posts, first on future of classifieds and the 2nd more generally on powers of […]