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Dutch article about social search (quoting me!)

I now have a translation of  the dutch article about social search! It was done by a very generous Dutch woman, Joyce Brouwers (also on Twitter). Thank you so much, Joyce!
This was really my first interview with a journalist, so it’s interesting to see how some of my thoughts were spun in a certain direction…but [...]

The Googling of the future that you do with your friends

I don’t actually know what the title of this article is, but Google translate tells me that this:
“Het Googlen van de toekomst doe je met je vrienden”
translates to this:
“The Googling of the future that you do with your friends”.
If anyone out there speaks Dutch and wants to provide a translation for me, I’m quite curious [...]

Morning commute [Comic]

This is a short comic based on my experience a few weeks back when I got stuck in bad traffic on my way to a meeting with a friend at Google. I decided to drive 280 South from San Francisco and then cut across the peninsula to reach Google (much closer to 101). I figured [...]

Three Flavors of Social Search: What to Expect

This was originally posted on ReadWriteWeb on November 12, 2009, as a guest author.

With Google’s Social Search experiment, Bing’s integration with Twitter, and with Yahoo!’s partnership with One Riot—it’s clear that social search has both potential and momentum. But what will social search look like, and will it help us search better? And if it [...]

Why there’s nothing to fear in social search

This was originally posted on ReadWriteWeb on Oct 27, 2009, as a guest author.
Social search was in the news this past week when Google and Bing announced that they would be getting access to the Twitter fire hose. A flurry of subsequent posts speculated on what this “social search” would entail, and some expressed concerns [...]