Mike's Mic - With Giovanni Galluchi of Viewzi.Com

If you think the category of search has reached it creative peak, think again. There are some really impressive people out there working on ways to improve what is arguably the most used feature of the web. If you find yourself frustrated with the way your search results are delivered, you're not alone. Enter a new category....Visual Search. Viewzi.Com has been created as means of creating unique "views" of search results. You may prefer to see the results of your searches in a different context than others do. Viewzi's goal is to develop a platform that allows you to view results other than "pages full of blue links". Giovanni uses some great analogies explaining the application of this context and the unique way in which they plan to open the development of "view" based search to anyone with the chops and time to code it. As we discuss in the interview, this opens up a tremendous opportunity for the real estate vertical to create customized search views that can be added to their web marketing efforts. How do you see sites like Viewzi improving the real estate search experience? In the near future I will be speaking with another company working on ways to improve the experience of search. Stay tuned.
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Google Zeitgeist '06

The Washington Post reports Google has released it's annual "Zeitgeist" report that peeks into the most popular search terms over the last year. Podcasting showed up as number 4 on the list. I found it intriguing that one of the items was the interest in the popular Web 2.0 programming language "Ajax". YouTube was absent from the list entirely. It seems Web 2.0 issues and technologies dominated search in 2006.

"The top search terms were words related to user-generated content, such as blogs, social networking sites and podcasts."

The impact that user generation and RSS based content distribution are having the web is sure to be top amongst the year end "wrap-up" technology articles that will no doubt be gracing my bookmarks and feed reader in the coming weeks.