Lynda Moulton introduced me to MuseGlobal, and specifically CEO Kate Noerr, last month. MuseGlobal sort of does ETL (Extract/Transform/Load) for text, although they prefer to call it Gather/Transform/Deliver. In any case, each of the three parts of the process are rather different for text than they are for traditional data warehousing. To wit: Read the rest of this entry »
Google has begun to introduce a feature whereby, if your search obviously leads you to a single site (e.g., you searched on a company name), you get a second search box to search only within that site. More details at Google and Search Engine Land. Basically, this is Google Site Search made a lot easier to use.
I think this could be a really big deal. Read the rest of this entry »
Doug Caverly highlights a Matt Mullenweg quote indicating that about 1/4 of all the blogs ever on Wordpress.com were spam (aka splogs). Now, that’s probably a higher fraction than for the blogoverse overall, because:
But there’s one more factor. Splogs have much higher posting frequency than real ones. 10-20+ posts per day is not uncommon, and 50-100+ is not unheard of. That’s 5-10X the post frequency of even the more active human-written blogs. So let’s assume:
In that case, over 80% (and indeed probably over 90%) of all blog posts are made by machines rather than by human beings.
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