Arnaud Fischer's newest posts Atom Feed from Searchles Fri Aug 22 01:10:56 -0400 2008 en-us The 3X Local Search momentum Arnaud Fischer The local search marketplace continues to grow rapidly, at a faster pace than general search. Local Search - more than 1.5 billion queries per month, second most popular activity after email - is at the cross road of several trends in hyper growth mode. 1. A larger portion of local SMB offline spending is shifting online. 2. Local search still represents less than 10% of search advertising and could double over the next 5 years with spending projected to grow from $8 billion in ‘07 to nearly $20 billion in ’11. 3. Lead generation spending is expected to reach $3.6 billion in ‘11 Sentiment analysis and consumer generated content Arnaud Fischer Sentiment Analysis draws on computational linguistic, information retrieval, data mining, natural language processing, machine learning, statistics and predictive analysis to transform unstructured online dialog into marketing insights about companies, products and issues. Web 2.0 was about collective intelligence; Web 3.0 is about connecting knowledge, making the proliferation of user generated content one of the main drivers behind the emergence of the Sentiment Analysis discipline. Sentiment analysis is on the verge to making eCommerce and Online Advertising a whole lot more efficient. Lijit redesign - Who's Being Searched Right Now? Arnaud Fischer Lijit redesign - Who's Being Searched Right Now? Lijit redesigned their home page in the past days, giving it a “more open, roomy, and serene feeling”, “all the same functionality without the clutter”, according to the Lijit blog. You can still check out the old lijit home page from the Google cache and the new one as of this morning. New younanimous social meta search engine Arnaud Fischer younanimous is actually a social meta search engine aggregating Google, Yahoo!, MSN, providing several social bookmarking options, including passive collaborative ranking from what I understand and soo introducing voting mechanism. Users can also bookmark results to a choice of social networks Wink - people search engine - restructuring capital Arnaud Fischer Shhhh! Searchles TV is Going Live – Turn it On! Arnaud Fischer Searchles | Home Arnaud Fischer Collaborative directory building Social search democratizing revenue share models Arnaud Fischer About consumer generated media and advertising revenue Internet buzz and The Oscars Arnaud Fischer The oscars and nominated directors, actresses, actors and everybody else generate quiet a bit of buzz online. What about each of The Oscars' nominated Best Pictures? Can Internet Sentiment Analysis predict the winners? Although just emerging, the explosion of consumer generated media makes online buzz monitoring an increasingly viable tool to take the pulse of attitudes in social media towards pretty much anything, brands, products, ideas, people and more. Internet sentiment analysis draws on information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, statistics, and computational linguistics to transform unstructured online dialog (blogs, chats, boards, ...) into marketing and social media insights. Search is the Internet OS! Internet buzz about Sproose social search engine Arnaud Fischer Sproose has been getting a bit more press coverage in the past few days. Sproose is now reporting over one million voted Web sites. Nice. Not everybody needs to be submitting content, voting and tagging for collaborative fitlering and directory building to work. Sproose added video Search earlier this month from Blinkx and News from Moreover last month. Sproose taxes itself as an interactive search engines, providing peer-moderated, ranking, prioritizing and community networking for consumer use. Search and Vote, basically. Social search is all the buzz. Arnaud Fischer Intersection of social search and sentiment analysis triggered by explosion of consumer generated content. Home Arnaud Fischer Search is the Internet OS! Arnaud Fischer Search is the OS enabling content applications to deliver media and information-related consumer experiences. Search is the Internet operating system enabling social search experiences and online sentiment analysis. What's hot in Search? Social Search, Sentiment analysis, Mashups, Cloud navigation paradigm