Google Could Hit Some Hurdles In Its Search To Be A Net Portal

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Is Google turning evil? Next up: webmail
from Google, the non-portal portal
company

Is Google turning evil? Next up: webmail
from Google, the non-portal portal
company 01/17/2004 11:01 PM
Google is reportedly looking into a way to tie their AdWords advertising service into e-mail.

Google over most hurdles to its plans
for an IPO

Google over most hurdles to its plans
for an IPO 01/27/2004 12:38 PM
IHT Jan 27 2004 4:40PM GMT

great web searching tool, free download,
cool search web, search the web, google
web search, web search engine

great web searching tool, free download,
cool search web, search the web, google
web search, web search engine 06/20/2004 03:27 AM
Re-Search is a new product that you can load it on your desktop. Of course it is totally free. Search the web became easy, fast and effectively! [PRWEB Jun 20, 2004]

Search To Portal To Search To Portal Yet
Again

Search To Portal To Search To Portal Yet
Again 05/14/2004 01:32 PM
Danny Sullivan is pointing out that ever ything old seems new again in the search world. It wasn't that long ago, of course, that people thought of Yahoo, Lycos and others as "search engines," even if that wasn't really the case (especially with Yahoo, which was never really a search engine). Then, once they realized they weren't making money in search, they all went portal. Of course, in doing so, they took their eye off the search ball, and along came Google to fill that role - and turn it into a money maker. So, suddenly, the big portals realized they needed to get back into search, and suddenly everyone is becoming a search engine again. Of course, before that process has really gone anywhere, Google has started announcing all sorts of portal-like moves and Yahoo! is (amazingly) talking about how they're "more than a search engine" - as if they ever were just a search engine. All this really makes clear is that there may be room for new search engines still. Already, people are buzzing about things like ObjectSearch and Gigablast. Yup, this new world, looks quite similar to the world a few years back. Hopefully the companies today have learned from the mistakes in the past.

MSN Launches new search portal

MSN Launches new search portal 07/01/2004 03:53 PM

I use Google a lot but not exclusively but almost. So I was curious what the big deal is surrounding their supposed improved search engine. I did a variety of searches and compared the results with those at Google. From what I can tell the results are very similar. Time will tell if they have the know how to make it work as good as Google. [MSN]

Amazon's Search Portal

Amazon's Search Portal 04/15/2004 07:52 AM
Yeah, you read that right. Amazon's got a search portal (well, they've got a wholly-owned subsidiary that's a search portal.) Pardon me whilst I go get an aspirin. They're not...

TrafficWave.net LLC Rolls Out New B2B
Search Portal

TrafficWave.net LLC Rolls Out New B2B
Search Portal 07/06/2004 03:09 AM
TrafficWave.net LLC announces the Launch of VendorsGuide.net, a focused search portal designed to connect B2B buyers and sellers worldwide. [PRWEB Jul 6, 2004]

Nice One-Pager -- News Search Portal

Nice One-Pager -- News Search Portal 03/06/2004 01:51 AM
If you like news sources and you don't mind yellow text on blue background, you'll like this one-pager of news resources at http://www.newssearchportal.com/ . This site doesn't list individual news...

Yahoo! launches 'Yisou' search portal

Yahoo! launches 'Yisou' search portal 06/21/2004 09:15 AM
CNN Jun 21 2004 1:23PM GMT

HepLink -- Viral Hepatitis Deep Search
Portal

HepLink -- Viral Hepatitis Deep Search
Portal 08/01/2004 06:44 AM
HepLink -- Viral Hepatitis Deep Search Portal
http://www.heplink.org/

A deep web search application that allows individuals dealing with hepatitis to spend more time finding answers to disease management issues and less time searching for them. The HepLink search portal was designed to aggregate information on viral hepatitis from a comprehensive collection of hepatitis specific sources, government websites and databases, consumer and patient resources, including complimentary and alternative medicine, transplant, clinical trials and health care provider resources, addiction resources, and legislation, advocacy/policy, education, research, clinical practice and current news sources. The information sources were prepared from private stores, public access information and the "deep web." This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide and Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Korean Daum to Aquire U.S. Search Portal
Lycos

Korean Daum to Aquire U.S. Search Portal
Lycos 07/31/2004 10:50 AM

Liquidity Services launches
GoWholesale.com as a search portal

Liquidity Services launches
GoWholesale.com as a search portal 06/23/2004 10:27 PM
InternetRetailer.com Jun 24 2004 2:54AM GMT

Factiva Search And Track Tools Debut on
Bea WebLogic Portal

Factiva Search And Track Tools Debut on
Bea WebLogic Portal 08/05/2004 04:08 PM
CRM Assist Aug 5 2004 7:43PM GMT

Be the Portal, Google

Be the Portal, Google 08/31/2004 10:10 AM
Google's path to greatness will be more than a one-way-search street.

Google: The Portal coming soon to a
browser near you

Google: The Portal coming soon to a
browser near you 06/06/2005 12:04 AM
Ah, so they are going ‘Portal’ after all it would seem! This is a a little bit of a shock. Still, I am not too sure people are going to care about something that Yahoo has offered for much longer. And that my friends, is your own space on the portal itself…. Direct and Related Links for 'Google: The Portal coming soon to a browser near you'

Yahoo! and Google escalate portal wars

Yahoo! and Google escalate portal wars 05/18/2004 05:53 AM
Fierce competition for eyeballs

John Battelle's Searchbl0g: NEWS: A9,
Amazon's Search Portal, Goes Live:
Reverberations Felt in Valley

John Battelle's Searchbl0g: NEWS: A9,
Amazon's Search Portal, Goes Live:
Reverberations Felt in Valley 04/14/2004 03:57 PM
Amazon launches their A9 search engine .. John Battelle .. scoop

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Google offers expertise to major Chinese
Internet portal

Google offers expertise to major Chinese
Internet portal 07/09/2004 05:11 AM
Asia.news.yahoo.com - Fri Jul 9, 08:40 am GMT

Search alternatives Why Google and other
search sites see small firms as big
rivals

Search alternatives Why Google and other
search sites see small firms as big
rivals 04/18/2005 08:39 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Mon Apr 18, 01:25 pm GMT

SEARCH WAR '04: YAHOO TO DROP GOOGLE AS
PRIMARY SEARCH TECH

SEARCH WAR '04: YAHOO TO DROP GOOGLE AS
PRIMARY SEARCH TECH 01/07/2004 07:00 PM
Yahoo Gets Set to Give Google Run for Money

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ย• Search alternatives Why Google and
other search sites see sm

ย• Search alternatives Why Google and
other search sites see sm 04/18/2005 08:39 AM
Newshub.com - Mon Apr 18, 01:27 pm GMT

Google Hacks Week 4 -- Additional Google
News Search Options

Google Hacks Week 4 -- Additional Google
News Search Options 03/13/2003 10:26 AM

Google IPO valued at $36 bn: Internet
search leader Google Inc. detailed its
highly

Google IPO valued at $36 bn: Internet
search leader Google Inc. detailed its
highly 07/27/2004 12:28 AM
NDTV Jul 27 2004 4:56AM GMT

Google accused of 'elderly
discrimination': Online search engine
leader Google Incorporation casts

Google accused of 'elderly
discrimination': Online search engine
leader Google Incorporation casts 07/24/2004 02:38 AM
NDTV Jul 24 2004 7:04AM GMT

Google fixed flaw in Google Desktop
Search(GDS)

Google fixed flaw in Google Desktop
Search(GDS) 12/22/2004 01:56 AM
PakTribune.com Dec 22 2004 6:39AM GMT

Google indicateur - All about the search
engine Google

Google indicateur - All about the search
engine Google 06/13/2004 11:51 AM
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To Portal or not To Portal? Wrong
question.

To Portal or not To Portal? Wrong
question. 03/14/2005 04:55 PM
It seems that the portalization of Google comes up now and then. I just ran across a this quote on Technosailor: It seems Google is trying to experiment with elements of portal sites like My Yahoo! but still trying to remain in the business of purely search and rejecting the elements of portalhood that it doesn’t like. I’m not so sure you can be on both sides of the fence. Yeah, I'd agree with that. You can't be on the...

NetXposure Ships Version 3.0 of Image
Portal, Image Portal X and Hexafoo

NetXposure Ships Version 3.0 of Image
Portal, Image Portal X and Hexafoo 08/16/2004 02:37 AM
Digital Asset Management software for Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X and Linux platforms provides accelerated workflows and reduced operational costs for any size organization [PRWEB Aug 16, 2004]

Adoption Hurdles

Adoption Hurdles 03/26/2005 02:36 AM
Constructech Magazine Mar 26 2005 6:43AM GMT

Many Hurdles Ahead for U.S.
(washingtonpost.com)

Many Hurdles Ahead for U.S.
(washingtonpost.com) 06/02/2004 12:49 AM
washingtonpost.com - With the introduction of both a new Iraqi government and a new U.N. draft resolution, the Bush administration senses the beginning of the end to its controversial and costly intervention in Iraq. But the relief visible at the White House yesterday may be short-lived, for the United States still faces serious obstacles.

Despite Win, More Hurdles for Oracle
(Reuters)

Despite Win, More Hurdles for Oracle
(Reuters) 09/10/2004 06:27 PM
Reuters - Oracle Corp. can celebrate a ruling by a U.S. judge that it can take over archrival PeopleSoft Inc. , but analysts say the world's second biggest software maker has a battery of other barriers to overcome before a deal is clinched.

iTunes Europe Hurdles

iTunes Europe Hurdles 11/03/2003 03:38 PM
A BizReport.com article reiterates the complexity of licensing for digital music in Europe. Plans for a 2003 launch of the iTunes Music Store were ...

Net phone service still has some hurdles

Net phone service still has some hurdles 07/06/2004 09:52 AM
SiliconValley.com Jul 6 2004 1:40PM GMT

Security Hurdles Remain

Security Hurdles Remain 08/27/2004 01:30 PM
Security is getting better, but it's not there yet: That's the conclusion of this comprehensive Computerworld piece looking at the current state of WLAN security. While the approval of 802.11i is a major milestone, it's going to take time for users to implement it. Even then, network managers will still need to continually monitor their networks for weak links, something that many don't do today. Security will likely always dog Wi-Fi. The key will be continuously looking to potential future problems and the faster development of solutions that will solve those problems. But one expert in this article notes that companies aren't deciding against Wi-Fi because of security concerns, at least not as often as they used to. That statement is backed up by research that emerged recently that found that mainstream companies, not just niche industries, are increasingly choosing to use WLAN switches, which often tout their strong security capabilities....

I Don't Think You Get My Point: The 5
Hurdles to Effective Communication

I Don't Think You Get My Point: The 5
Hurdles to Effective Communication 06/22/2005 02:38 AM

"The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred." -- George Bernard Shaw If Shaw is right, what can we do about it? We spend over half of our working life, and a considerable portion of all our waking hours, engaged in some form or another of communication, yet for all our practice most of us seem to be very poor at it. The problem, I think, is that it's hard to learn from your mistakes when you don't know you're making them. I've often watched and listened to someone try valiantly to make some critical point about which they are both passionate and informed, and then when I talk with their audience immediately afterwards I've discovered that almost no one got it. I've been equally astonished at some of the comments and e-mails my weblog articles have provoked that indicate the reader has not understood in the least the point I was trying to make. But I'm less stressed and self-critical about that than I used to be, because I've learned that the miscommunication often wasn't my (or anyone's) fault. I've come to appreciate that there are five major hurdles to effective communication, and you have to vault them all or your communication will fail. Here they are: Your point must be explainable using language. This might seem obvious, but most of our important life learnings are not taught through language. We learn for the most part by doing (and by making mistakes), not by listening to someone tell us something. Try to explain to someone (or write a manual to explain) how to ride a bicycle. Try to describe the difference in taste (or smell!) between a Merlot and a Shiraz. Much of our knowledge is instinctive, and much of what we learn is subconscious or unconscious. The comprehension 'bandwidth' of oral and written language is surprisingly narrow, and language is much better at conveying some things than others. Language itself is an artificial construct, a feeble model to try to depict reality abstractly. What's worse, we may have a shared vocabulary of no more than a few hundred words with our audience, and their subjective connotationof many of these shared words may be completely different from ours. I once listened to two people on a train argue vociferously for an hour over what strategy their organization should pursue, only to discover that they had a completely different idea of what the word 'strategy' meant.  Why should we be so surprised at language's limitations? There are a variety of devices that can be used to push the idea you want to communicate across the line from incomprehensible to comprehensible -- most notably metaphors, analogies, stories and conversations (iterative communications) -- but we would be best to realize that there are many explanations and teachings that language is just not equipped to do. When we love to teach, it is hard to acknowledge how much cannot be taught with language. Maslow said "When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." (That's a metaphor: did it help you understand this hurdle?)If your point is not explainable using language, take your audience out of the lecture hall and into the laboratory and show them instead. You must be able to articulate your point clearly and persuasively. If you've vaulted the first hurdle, this next one is just as tough. There are two parts to it -- clarity (rational appreciation) and persuasiveness (emotional appreciation). Although debates are supposedly models of persuasiveness, their focus is really on clarity. Clarity is tough enough to do, which is why the aforementioned techniques like stories and conversations and metaphors are so vital. Persuasiveness is a much subtler achievement, one that requires both personal conviction and an understanding of and empathy for the audience. I don't know whether this is a lost art, or if we have just given up trying. I see a lot of sermonizing (in churches, on talk radio and in the editorial pages) but no real persuasion -- sermonizers preach only to the choir, and change no one's mind. They only reassure. True persuasion takes an appreciation of why the audience doesn't agree with you now. It involves tact, diplomacy, consensus-seeking, compromise, and creative thinking. Such skills tax our patience and attention span. It is usually easier to use power and deceit than persuasion to get what you want. So it's not surprising that those who want to change people's minds are more preoccupied with getting power and perpetrating myths than with appreciating other perspectives and thinking through how to win people over in a non-coercive and non-manipulative way. The only way over these hurdles is through a ton of research (face to face as well as online), openness, attention skills, empathy and an enormous amount of practice. Your audience must be ready to listen. If your audience is ignorant of the lessons of history, or complacent about the state of the world, trying to teach them about the importance of separation of church and state, or the steps they need to take to reduce their contribution to global warming, is like trying to teach calculus to pre-schoolers. Your audience needs an appropriate intellectual and conceptual foundation, and an informed sense of what is urgent and what is important, before they will be ready to listen. Daniel Dennett says "On any important topic, we tend to have a rough idea of what we believe to be true, and when someone provides the words we want to hear, we tend to fall for it, no matter how shoddy the arguments". If your audience doesn't think they need what you're selling, they probably won't buy. Until your audience is ready for what you have to tell them, you're wasting your time, and theirs. There's only one thing you can do to overcome this hurdle -- pick (and invite) your audience carefully. Your audience must be listening. They're probably not. They're thinking about the cutie they met last night or sitting next to them, or what they have to do next, or what they'd rather be doing now than listening to you. They may be multi-tasking. they're almost certainly daydreaming. So you need to get their attention. To do that you need to distract them from all their other distractions. The best way to do that is not by impressing them with the importance or urgency or cleverness of what you have to say. It's to entertain them. The work 'entertain' means literally to hold attention. That means start, and pepper what you're saying, with interesting stories, amusing anecdotes or jokes, and facts. That means talking in an animated manner. That means relating to the audience in a personal way that keeps them engaged -- first names, eye contact, relating something about them. That means giving them something. That means paying attention to the audience, understanding why they're not listening (perhaps because their sidebar conversation is more interesting, urgent or important to them), and drawing them gently but powerfully back in. That doesn't mean criticizing them for not paying attention -- that's blaming them for your inability to keep their interest. How many of us are good at doing all this? I don't see many hands. We need to go back to school on this, and learn how to be better presenters (even if we're only 'presenting' to one person) -- not just more prepared and articulate, more entertaining as well. Your audience must be able to understand your point from their frame of reference. This is not the same as point 3. Even if they're ready to listen, they're coming to whatever you're talking about from a very different place, and their brains, like yours, is wired by history of personal experience. Lakoff says: "Frames trump facts. All of our concepts are organized into conceptual structures called frames (which may include images and metaphors) and all words are defined relative to those frames. Conventional frames are pretty much fixed in the neural structures of our brains. In order for a fact to be comprehended, it must fit the relevant frames." That means even if they're ready for your message, even if they need to hear what you have to say, you still need to say it in a way they can understand. How do you do that? Spend lots of time talking with people whose frames are very different from yours, and practice understanding their frames and explaining things in their context. And rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. All of this isn't as hard as it might sound. We have an enormous number of opportunities to practice vaulting each of these hurdles every day. Mostly, we just need to pay better attention, be more conscious of what we're doing wrong, and work on all those bad communication habits we've picked up. And these five hurdles apply as much to written communications as oral ones. As I worked through this list, I cringed at how much work I have to do at improving my own communications. So I'm guessing it must be a pretty good list.

Schools jumping higher hurdles

Schools jumping higher hurdles 02/05/2005 09:52 PM
The BBC's Mike Baker analyses the facts behinds the tough message from England's chief inspector of schools.

Hurdles for digital TV's spread

Hurdles for digital TV's spread 09/14/2004 03:55 AM
BBC Sep 14 2004 8:12AM GMT

Gmail likely to clear privacy hurdles

Gmail likely to clear privacy hurdles 04/13/2004 11:30 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 13 2004 3:40PM GMT

Injured Devers Can't Finish Hurdles (AP)

Injured Devers Can't Finish Hurdles (AP) 08/22/2004 01:36 PM
AP - Gail Devers failed once again Sunday in the Olympic 100-meter hurdles, falling to injury just steps into her first race. Devers, 37, who has three world championships in the event, pulled up short and screamed as she slid under the first hurdle.
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