Silicon Valley Musings

An unfortunate typo in a Reuters Television headline, “4 Killed in Tour Bush Crash” was quickly corrected on the Reuters.com Website, but stayed uncorrected in their RSS feed for an additional hour.
From Reuters RSS feed
Fragment below:
… <title>Reuters Television: World</title>
<pubDate>08/10/2004 15:45:38 EDT\</pubDate>
<item>
<title>4 Killed In Tour Bush Crash</title> …

This picture was taken in Terminal A at Mineta San Jose International
Airport.

There is a search arms race brewing between Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Since these three companies will be frequently mentioned together when discussing search, I thought it would be appropriate to have a short hand way of refering to them collectively.
So I coin the phrase, “gimme”, which is how I would pronounce the acronym GMY […]

I just starting to read Dan Brown’s first book, Digital Fortress. Within the first fifty pages I felt there was a technical flaw to one of the central plot twists and was doing a Google search to see if anyone had noticed it.
In the process, I stumbled across this 1998 rec.collecting.books newsgroups posting reportedly […]

My most recent professional experience was as a principal with the Reuters Innovation Studio. At the studio I had an opportunity to think about different products and services that would exploit Reuters market data (e.g. stock quotes and news) assets. So it would only be natural for me to think about searches as financial instruments.
In […]