Whit Andrews

It was back in something like 1999 that I saw Bill Nguyen for the last time (he’s not dead, but running Lala — I just ain’t seen him in a while). Bill was running Onebox.com at the time, which was a different company from the current Onebox.com, about which I know nothing. What I had [...]

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If Bing does nothing else but boost the ampage around “conversational” search, it will be enough of a victory for me to be delighted it’s there. This blog entry detailing a Google exec’s gracious consideration of the search newcomer’s strength is delightful, and even lacks what would have been the justifiable reflection that Google, with [...]

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I saw this jump-and-take-notice blog entry via my colleague Jim Lundy. There’s a bug in Google Apps Synch that causes problems for Microsoft’s desktop search client. Desktop search from Microsoft has been OK in early generations, and in my experience with clients it’s frequently selected as a corporate standard when companies want desktop search but [...]

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I’ve been busy this week (while you, doubtless, lounge on a fainting couch and nibble chewy bits of fruit dipped in syrup and dredged in nonpareils) and so have Allen Weiner and Andrew Frank. Our research note on the launch of Bing shipped last week. It’s got good points, one of which is that without [...]

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When WolframAlpha hit the media,  we got a flurry of inquiry about it from Advanced Technology groups and investors. People wanted to know: Google killer? IBM killer? Yahoo killer? We said, we don’t know, really, we gotta see it work. (Luckily, at the time at least, all I covered was enterprise search, so I could [...]

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I noted recently that Big Launches are No Man’s Friend. On the other hand, though, the next day I got a taste of why they still happen and developed a handy conspiracy theory to go with it.
So, I was talking to the folks at SimplyBox Tuesday. They briefed me and a colleague who write about [...]

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OK, campers, here’s my PostSecret: I blew off the Netscape keynote when they announced Constellation.

Thanks to flickr’s termie for the image.
Now you know. Well, you know what my secret is. I bet a lot of you — even most of you — are sitting there right now asking yourselves, “Why did I click that [...]

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I’m reading lots of good things about Wave. This is good, highly positive but readable. Nothing new for those of you inclined to fan Wave; good primer for folks like me still trying to get their brains around it.

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