John Battelle's Search Blog Thoughts on the intersection of tech, business, and society. It feels a bit odd to be writing that headline – "Yahoo's New Search" – given the company's deal with Bing/Microsoft. But Yahoo seems intent on declaring its independence with regard to search, even as it sells its asset and audience away to its newfound partner. Yahoo does retain, in… It feels a bit odd to be

John Battelle's Search Blog Thoughts on the intersection of tech, business, and society. Regarding this story in the New York Times: With Bloggers in the Bleachers, Leagues See a Threat to Profits (and related, my post on "Don't Be a Player Platform Hater"): I have such a rant in me on this topic but I simply cannot write it now, I'm way too… Regarding this story in the New York Times: With Blogge

Hey, I really like the soundtrack. And it's f*ing true as well. My beef with this is this simple statement, about 3:42 in. "Social Media isn't a fad, it's a fundamental shift in how we communicate." True, to a point. What it really is, is the release of how we… Hey, I really like the soundtrack. And it’s f*ing true as well. My beef with this is this simple statement, about 3:42 in. “Social Media i

John Battelle's Search Blog Thoughts on the intersection of tech, business, and society. As part of BingTweets, an FM/Microsoft promotion blending the two services, I was asked to opine on the idea of how we use the web to make decisions. My first post has been up for a while but I managed to lose track of time and forgot to let you… As part of BingTweets, an FM/Microsoft promotion blending the tw

John Battelle's Search Blog Thoughts on the intersection of tech, business, and society. Back when I predicted this in January, I recall worrying I was calling it too early. Now it appears the timing was about right. From Mashable: …while Google grew from June to July, it still lost market share to its competitors – from 66.1% in June to 64.8% in July,… Back when I predicted this in January, I rec

John Battelle's Search Blog Thoughts on the intersection of tech, business, and society. Matt Cutts points to a video interview (embedded above) on Google's Caffeine infrastructure update. "It's a pretty fundamentally big change" Matt says. What I'd like to know is why and in response to what changes on the web. Of course, the major changes in how the web works are… Matt Cutts points to a video in

John Battelle's Search Blog Thoughts on the intersection of tech, business, and society. Multiple sources are reporting Facebook is testing "Facebook Lite" – what some are calling a Twitter version of Facebook. Mashable, RWW have more, TC got an official response from Facebook, which makes it sound like it's not a Twitter competitor. Interesting. Reminds me of my prediction on the two companies… M

Facebook's previously announced realtime engine has been released, coverage from Mashable: Fast forward to today: Facebook just announced that it is rolling out the new Facebook search. With realtime search and FriendFeed in its pocket, Facebook is gunning directly for Twitter. Also for Mashable, a story on Google's "major revision"… Facebook’s previously announced realtime engine has been release

John Battelle's Search Blog Thoughts on the intersection of tech, business, and society. I've been meaning to post a long-ish rant on the importance of celebrities taking control of their own platforms, but never gotten to it, in part because I'm not that enamored with the incessant selling of celebrity that occurs in our culture. Yeah, I sound like a grumpy old man,… I’ve been meaning to post a l

John Battelle's Search Blog Thoughts on the intersection of tech, business, and society. Early this year, well, January 1, to be exact, I made this prediction about our friends at Apple: Apple will see a significant reversal of recent fortunes. I sense this will happen for a number of reasons … but I think the main one will be brand related – a… Early this year, well, January 1, to be exact, I mad

John Battelle's Search Blog Thoughts on the intersection of tech, business, and society. Yesterday I spent an illuminating hour with the folks behind Wowd, a still-private-beta search upstart that is taking a new approach to, well, just about everything in search as we traditionally understand it. In a odd coincidence, this morning Venturebeat published a thoughtful piece on how search might shift