Jure Cuhalev

Posts Tagged ‘Google

20 Apr, 2009

Forget PageRank. TwitterRank via Crowdsourcing is the new Win

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

Everyone and their dog should have an OpenID account now. Right? Well, mostly but I somehow managed to skip this revolution so while I probably have a bunch, I don’t have primary one. Since this is a pretty complex decision I decide to ask my nice Twitter followers. I get almost instantly the answer – [...]

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08 Feb, 2009

Eye-tracking from Google – what the image doesn’t tell us

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas

You’ve probably seen the Google Eyetracking blog post that’s been published on their blog and shows this Image of how results are interpreted by the reader:   What’s interesting with this image is the usual – the thing that we don’t see – heatmap for adveristing part. Does our advertising stand a fair chance of [...]

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31 Jan, 2009

Just a Google bug or beginning of Skynet?

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas

If you’ve Googled anything today you’ve noticed that Google thinks that target page is harmful. You get these results for all the search results, even Google’s own: While it might seem like a simple engineering bug (though it could be expensive in terms of PR and money), I predict a bigger theory of conspiracy behind [...]

10 Oct, 2008

Online buzz management for startups

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: conferences|Tech

At Social Media Camp 08 I presented how Zemanta internally organizes buzz from bloggers and our work-flow. Basic idea is to use a bookmarking service, to categorize different responses, while at the same time use a collection of different tools like Google Alerts and Twitter Search to follow other mentions. The whole setup seems obvious [...]

29 Jul, 2008

Cuil – where’s the social media in the launch?

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas|Tech

Image by nattu via Flickr It’s now more than a day since Cuil, the latest hyped Google killer launched, and we can reflect on looking at how that went. According to TechCrunch and a number of other sources, it didn’t go too well, with their servers crashing a number of times. I’ve seen this also [...]

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