watchdog

In an article on Yahoo’s paid inclusion, Danny Sullivan notes that the Google Watch guy has now launched a Yahoo Watch site. He’s a bit rabid. On one hand it is good to have folks to keep a critical eye on search engines, but I wonder, does this sort of borderline paranoia really help the cause?

niches

I a discussion of niche directories someone asks:

Imagine then many good niche directories tapped through lets say an open source search portal?

But maybe instead of a single portal, what’s needed are lots of niche search engines. (Nutch is a natural for either application…) One could crawl a bit from the pages listed in the directory, and maybe even implement a link analysis algorithm which scores pages by how well they are linked to the original directory.