Nano2Sol by Marc Boucher

The answer of course is search, although most people who will read this will have never heard of Nitin Karandikar.

Search is in my blood these days, more specifically vertical search and project Phoenix which I’m currently working on. Every where I turn these days people are talking about search. Today I’ve come across a trio of interesting blog postings related to search and offer them as worth reading.

In the first Tim O’Reilly talks about “What Would Google Do?” and it’s more about innovation, Web 2.0 and less specifically about search but the core of the articles comes from data gathered from Google services including search. Web 2.0 is more than just a buzz word, it’s a fundamental shift in how we interact online. Quoting Tim;

… it goes right to the heart of what makes Web 2.0 applications so interesting: they are alive, or as close to it as you can get with a computer. They learn from and interact directly with their users (and more specifically, provide services to individual users that benefit from the aggregate interaction of the system with all of its users.)

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We’ve been working on this for several months now but we just put out the first press release. We decided on the target landing site at the PRIME science team meeting the Mars Institute hosted in January in Vancouver.

Canadian Mission Concept to Mysterious Mars moon Phobos to Feature Unique Rock-Dock Maneuver

“The science team has tentatively selected a feature on the surface of Phobos as the landing site. Known as the “Phobos Monolith”, it is a building-sized object. The mission intends to use a new maneuver coined rock-dock, to dock with Phobos.”