Powerset Will Launch In Coming Weeks
on 20080405 at 12:04 AM.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/05/powerset-will-launch-in-coming-weeks
Based in San Francisco, Powerset is apparently a new kind of search engine that will understand the natural language searches rather than keyword searching. It is due to launch in “coming weeks” according to Michael Arrington.
This sounds all sorts of awesome because what “natural language searches” means is that Powerset doesn’t do searches based just on keywords alone. Instead, it tries to understand the search phrase as a whole. The reviews have been mixed, Techcrunch commentors seem to like it enough. Crunchbase people have tried it and are disappointed.
I think it looks good, sounds good. But I could be getting ahead of myself seeing as I have yet to try it. But if it ends up delivering, then it could give Google a run for its money. It also sounds like a great opportunity for everyone, especially technological marketers to learn more about their targets.
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Based in San Francisco, Powerset is apparently a new kind of search engine that will understand the natural language searches rather than keyword searching. It is due to launch in “coming weeks” according to Michael Arrington.
This sounds all sorts of awesome because what “natural language searches” means is that Powerset doesn’t do searches based just on keywords alone. Instead, it tries to understand the search phrase as a whole. The reviews have been mixed, Techcrunch commentors seem to like it enough. Crunchbase people have tried it and are disappointed.
I think it looks good, sounds good. But I could be getting ahead of myself seeing as I have yet to try it. But if it ends up delivering, then it could give Google a run for its money. It also sounds like a great opportunity for everyone, especially technological marketers to learn more about their targets.
Possibly The Most Ridiculous DMCA Take Down Yet
on 20080404 at 11:59 PM.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/05/possibly-the-most-ridiculous-dmca-take-down-yet
The anonymity of the internet can bring out the worst in people. You are bound to run into someting you don't like eventually. And what do you do if you find something you don't like on the Internet? You send a notice to the DMCA to get it taken down. Of course, because this is the internet, even the notices sent to the DMCA can be fake.
“Scorpio Music sent a letter to Yahoo (presumably a DMCA notice) that stated a video created by Loren Feldman infringed on copyrighted material they control. The alleged infringement is over the use of the YMCA song by the Village People.” (Michael Arrington)
The video though, doesn’t actually play the song anywhere in it. Instead, the issue is that a a puppet sings one line of the song. Actually, I watched the video (found here on YouTube) and the puppets never actually sing the song. They say the letters “YMCA” in a tune (that is not quite the same as the original). Its safe under fair use.
Yeah.
What.
Yahoo takes down the video and Feldman gets an email from them reminding him that they can terminate his account. Wow, excessive much?
What I want to know is how Yahoo processes DMCA notices. How do they check to see if a DMCA claim is valid?
Interesting how much criticism Yahoo has been getting lately. I would have thought that Yahoo would have started to take closer look at things before jumping all over DMCA notices and angering their users given the past circumstances with a certain Chinese blogger.
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The anonymity of the internet can bring out the worst in people. You are bound to run into someting you don't like eventually. And what do you do if you find something you don't like on the Internet? You send a notice to the DMCA to get it taken down. Of course, because this is the internet, even the notices sent to the DMCA can be fake.
“Scorpio Music sent a letter to Yahoo (presumably a DMCA notice) that stated a video created by Loren Feldman infringed on copyrighted material they control. The alleged infringement is over the use of the YMCA song by the Village People.” (Michael Arrington)
The video though, doesn’t actually play the song anywhere in it. Instead, the issue is that a a puppet sings one line of the song. Actually, I watched the video (found here on YouTube) and the puppets never actually sing the song. They say the letters “YMCA” in a tune (that is not quite the same as the original). Its safe under fair use.
Yeah.
What.
Yahoo takes down the video and Feldman gets an email from them reminding him that they can terminate his account. Wow, excessive much?
What I want to know is how Yahoo processes DMCA notices. How do they check to see if a DMCA claim is valid?
Interesting how much criticism Yahoo has been getting lately. I would have thought that Yahoo would have started to take closer look at things before jumping all over DMCA notices and angering their users given the past circumstances with a certain Chinese blogger.
