How’s that for an alliteration? Back in 2007, Dave Copps introduced us to PureDiscovery at the very first SourceCon conference, and in doing so he … Read more
Another Search Partnership Renews Its Vows
The last couple of weeks have been fill with news of new and renewed strategic search partnerships. First, the Yahoo!/Bing search alliance. Then the … Read more
Conducting a Quality Search: Let Keywords Be Your Guide
That title is kind of a ‘duh’, isn’t it? But it’s amazing how often developing a good list of keywords, and then putting them to … Read more
The Yahoo! / Microsoft Search Alliance
Yesterday, Yahoo! Sr. VP Search Products, Shashi Seth, posted a note on Yahoo!’s search blog about the Yahoo!-Microsoft search alliance that’s … Read more
Data, Information, and Knowledge
Data: a collection of facts Information: data that have been processed into a format that is understandable by its intended audience Knowledge: … Read more
Google “Wave”s Goodbye
At 2pm Pacific time today, Google posted on its official blog that it would discontinue developing Wave as a stand-alone product. It states however that it … Read more
Google Acquires Metaweb
Google announced today that it has acquired Metaweb Technologies, a company based in San Francisco that developed Freebase, an “open, shared database … Read more
How #SocialRecruiting Is Changing Sourcing
Yesterday I received a notification from Jobvite that the results to their 2010 Social Recruiting Survey were available. This is a topic of great interest … Read more
TED Talks Archive – Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web
This video is from the 2009 TED Conference talks. For those who don’t know, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He’s a pretty … Read more
Why Sourcing?
A good Sourcer enjoys research, marketing, and building long-term relationships with people. Read more