Only You Can Save The Search Engines- February 9, 2006 The fact that the search engine emperors have no clothes is one that nobody seems to like to talk about. What I mean is, search engine results suck. How often do you search for something even remotely complicated and get truely great results at the top of the list Watching the world of tagging emerge, the idea of enabling users to contribute to solving this problem has been occuring to me lately - not that user input or feedback is a new idea - but it was brilliantly brought up today in a...http://www.precommerce.com/blog/2006/02/only_you_can_save_the_search_e.html GotVMail You're Lucky if You Don't.- February 2, 2006 GotVmail is a theoretically great service that provides 880 and local numbers with voice mail, call forwarding, and related services. Unfortunately, they can't seem to enable their phone lines to work consistently for any period of time. The last two days have put into the double digits the number of times I've had to complain because callers get fast-busy or 'cannot connect your call' or just plain silence. Tech support never fails to quickly let me know that they 'can't reproduce it' or that..http://www.precommerce.com/blog/2006/02/gotvmail_youre_lucky_if_you_do.html How and Why To Blog- February 1, 2006 There are lots of reasons to blog, and lots of ways to blog. Hugh is giving a speach on this topic and highlights some of his wisest words, and links to a few from others. If you're still trying to figure this out, you could do a lot worse than absorbing his words and links.http://www.precommerce.com/blog/2006/02/how_and_why_to_blog.html |