DISQUS

It's still interesting to note that they did have a conversation about Search ... http://tinyurl.com/ctfo4t

Citizen Journalism at it's best .... http://bit.ly/LPvD

It's going to be a long time before we stop reading ...http://bit.ly/dFMk

I think it’s more of a technical issue rather than a design problem … remember the scaling debacle? http://bit.ly/XCUT

A Tad too Late IMO ...
http://tinyurl.com/67evwp

A Tad too Late IMO ...
http://tinyurl.com/67evwp

A Tad too Late IMO ...
http://tinyurl.com/67evwp

Yep - Totally cool !

http://tinyurl.com/5fhj65

Thanks Olvis!

Where I think it "has potential" is in the fact that they are approaching (and perhaps addressing) the whole notion of search slightly differently than Google. Google ranks and presents the results based on the number of hits/links - the higher the number the further you get up in the result chain.
Cuil on the other hand is trying to implement context to the search query by gouping and presenting the results so that the user can focus on the sub category that addresses their current context.
I was talking about whats "underneath the hood" rather than the UI.

With the web getting bigger I don't think presenting search results based solely on ranking is going to suffice anymore. We need something new.

Here is another post that looks at it from a slightly different angle - i.e leveraging the social graph to determine relevancy in search queries ... http://tinyurl.com/6f9rtk

Blogs "self correct" :) - Nice choice of words! Couldn't have said it better myself

Vardaan - maybe the stats are deceiving (we'll give them the benefit of the doubt :) ) However the bigger question is the web is no doubt getting larger (in spite of the Google stats) so the question then is how relevant are the search results ? - Read my post on this topic .. http://tinyurl.com/6f9rtk

They are two different animals...

http://tinyurl.com/6m6yp6

Tyler - Thanks for that. I'll check it out. I kinda had a haunch that Qik was working on it :) but wasn't sure.

Th3g1vr;

You're right - Ignorance can skew views - you included ;) . I wonder how many "average" Joe's and Jane's will want to tweak and hack and jailbreak an iPhone so they can enable video recording? There is a difference between video-recorder capable and actually having it work out of the box. Also I was hoping it would be a core feature rather than a 3rd party implementation - like GPS is. Let the 3rparty developers build apps on top of the core functionality.

However I do agree w/you that it's a software issue rather than hardware.

Dr. Martin - I agree. However if the core framework does not support either voice dialing or video recording we're out of luck as far as 3rd party apps implementing those features.

Should have a video recorder...

http://tinyurl.com/3fhnec

It's a necessary evil...

http://tinyurl.com/6p9ttm

Robert - Interesting but I think you're missing a couple of fundamental points here. Read on...

http://tinyurl.com/3f57ll

Good points! It's largely symbolic and I'm pretty sure a little bit of egotism played a role as well - or I should say "bruised ego". I agree - rather than fighting the Sanford Wallaces of the world it's better to focus on securing their systems

Totally agree! I'm not a big fan bloat-ware either but it's lets face it - Microsoft did take the lead where many others failed

Pure luck IMO

http://tinyurl.com/47xo3q

Hans - Abosolutely! That's why I feel the NYT should have addressed it from that point of view rather than insinuating that it's only a "bloggers" problem.

I think data portability is what really matters at the end and not which server the content resides IMHO

http://tinyurl.com/2328ks

The artist is exploited in the end ....

http://tinyurl.com/ys4ekc