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Venky Harinarayan on Kosmix and Vertical Search (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 10th

SM: How big is the market? How do you calculate TAM? What is your business model? VH: We believe the overall TAM is very large – Wikipedia is a good proxy. They are #6 on the Web in traffic. Our business model is ad supported and very robust as we have very targeted and high

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Venky Harinarayan on Kosmix and Vertical Search (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 9th

SM: Where did you get the idea for your current venture? What is your domain experience in the segment? VH: We started with the thesis that the Web is like the library of Alexandria – the repository of all human knowledge. The only window people have into this repository today is search. Our vision was

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Web 3.0 & IAC (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 19th

Web 3.0 Framework discussion Context IAC has done a very good job on the context front. Whether, it is Match.com, RealEstate.com, CollegeHumor.com, Ticketmaster.com or Shoebuy.com, the Company has got the context bang on. Chemistry.com for example has the patent-pending Chemistry Profile™ personality assessment! If you are looking to give the perfect gift to your boy-friend

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Web 3.0 & IAC (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Sep 17th

Introduction IAC (Nasdaq: IACI) is an interactive conglomerate operating more than 60 diversified brands in sectors being transformed by the Internet, online and offline. The Company’s business can be classified into five segments: * Retailing (HSN, Cornerstone Brands, Shoebuy.com) * Membership & Subscriptions (Interval International, Match.com, Entertainment Publications) * Transactions (Ticketmaster, LendingTree, RealEstate.com, ServiceMagic) *

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Web 3.0 and Verticalization

Posted on Thursday, Sep 6th

I have worked with the Web 3.0 framework for months now, and taken a crack at defining how the web is likely to evolve in the future. So here’s a recap of the thesis so far. I will be adding a dimension to this framework shortly, so it is a good time to stop and

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Making Sense of Unstructured Information

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 4th

By David Hatch, Guest Author Unstructured information is considered by many to represent over 80% of an organization’s data, and yet it remains largely untouched by conventional BI approaches such as query and reporting tools. This includes text analytics and federated search of customer service notes, call center dialog, web pages, web logs, word documents,

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Web 3.0 & Online Health (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 21st

Top Players and Rankings With more and more users going online for quality content on health, fitness, medication, and expert advice, there is a rising demand for healthcare portals. Some of the top sites for health are WebMD Health, NIH.gov, MSN Health, Yahoo! Health and EverydayHealth. Health queries, medication, symptoms are very popular among users.

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Web 3.0 & Online Health (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Aug 20th

Overview Online Health is definitely attracting eyeballs and the recent data released by comScore proves it. On an average, 31% of the total U.S. Internet users or 55.3 million U.S. Internet audience visited health information sites each month during the first quarter of 2007. The online health segment grew by 12% in 2006. These sites

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