Day: December 23, 2005

Search in 2005 … and 2006?

John Battelle, former editor of Wired magazine, is the leading commentator on search. In November he published his good read The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. In the concluding chapter on the future of search he says: As every engineer in the search field loves […]

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Google’s steps towards world domination (2)

Here’s the list. Web search: Google Google Image Search Google News Google University Search Google Blog Search beta Goods and services: Froogle beta Google Base beta Maps and directions; local businesses: Google Local / Google Maps beta (map data from Tele Atlas; business listings from Yell.com) Book content: Google Book Search beta (previously Google print) […]

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Legal process outsourcing

A valuable post on Offshoring from Joy London’s Excited Utterances blog, pointing to the trend in legal process outsourcing (LPO), particularly to India, and providing links to the main players: With the increasing acceptance of India as a preferred offshoring destination, a large number of non-CRM and non-transaction related services are being offshored. Among these, […]

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