The new Hertz web site is miles and miles better than the one it replaces. More functionality, easier to find your way around, and it even works in non-IE browsers now. Not all the bugs are worked out, however:
Entries from May 28th, 2005
Yahoo! Mindset
May 27th, 2005 1 Comment
You know how you try to do some research on the Web, and when you type in a term on your favorite search engine, you get a ton of links related to buying stuff? Bleh. Totally randomly, I stumbled across Yahoo! Mindset, a demo from Yahoo Research Labs. It uses machine learning applied to the [...]
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Oh, My Forehead
May 27th, 2005 No Comments
Is it just me or does this seem crazy? Perhaps all the auto-resize magic happens in the IE plugin, which is how you can dump 300 vacation photos into your mail all at once. But how about some Firefox love? Yeah yeah, it’s beta. Yahoo Photomail
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On Yahoo! Sponsored Search
May 23rd, 2005 No Comments
David W. Boles apparently prefers Yahoo! Sponsored Search. I wonder how many people have done a comparison?
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Gaining Ground?
May 18th, 2005 No Comments
I think that Yahoo is definitely gaining ground or maybe has already surpassed Google. Consider this example: Google lists 1 other website on the entire web that links to me. Yahoo lists 422. There’s a link in the Yahoo results that points to a comment I made on another blog just a couple of days [...]
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A pile of April numbers
May 18th, 2005 No Comments
comScore Media Metrix released a bunch of Web-related numbers today, see Online Consumers Catch Spring Fever In April. The results are looking very mature, and show that the Internet and Web are becoming mainstream in people’s lives. What I mean by that is that the big gainers seem to be around seasonal sites, e.g. Mother’s [...]
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The Business Case for Privacy
May 12th, 2005 No Comments
Forrester released the results of a survey in an report called What’s On Web Analytics Users’ Minds? The report mirrors a lot of the issues we see here at Yahoo! (instrumentation concerns, multiple sources of “truth”, no silver bullet for counting users) but there’s one sentence that jumped out at me – this was regarding [...]
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The Yahoo! Search FUSE
May 12th, 2005 No Comments
Check out the John Battelle posting comparing the Yahoo! Search and Google visions and missions. I particularly liked the Y! Search “FUSE” (for Find, Use, Share, and Expand) – it nicely sums up the attitude at the search team, but also infuses (ha!) a lot of the thinking at Y!.
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Authenticating Email
May 12th, 2005 No Comments
I’m at the point where a quick scan of my spam folder tells me if I want to read anything in it. I may even go days at a time without reading anything, and then just dump the whole folder. I’ve had a few false positives — email that wasn’t spam, but looked it for [...]
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