Ed Brill

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1. 1  Ben Rose http://www.jaffacake.net | 5/26/2005 11:58:23 AM

   Something that's actually a little more interesting is the Google definition feature that I was just made aware of.

   In a Google search, prefix with define:

   e.g. "define: IBM"

   Google will then output it's definition of the word you requested. Quite useful.

1. 2  Chris Whisonant http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com | 5/26/2005 12:11:23 PM

   That's great to see that iSeries is right there behind OS/2...

1. 3  Ben Langhinrichs http://www.GeniiSoft.com/showcase.nsf/GeniiBlog | 5/26/2005 12:53:02 PM

   Ouch! Kind of makes you wish you had some control over Google's algorithm, doesn't it.

1. 4  Dan Sickles  | 5/26/2005 12:56:12 PM

   so there's gonna be an R7 Warp client right?-)

1. 5  Andrew Pollack http://www.thenorth.com/apblog | 5/26/2005 1:11:13 PM

   I agree, Ed. It would be great if searching for IBM's strategy yielded something more than OS/2 and a blog.

   :-)

   Couldn't resist that.

1. 6  tonyo  | 5/26/2005 1:40:13 PM

   I laughed pretty hard at that..

   if you do the same with Microsoft - does Microsoft BOB come up ?

   ya think that at least google could include Smartsuite on OS2 as part of the returning pages.. :)

1. 7  Cheyn Rushing http://www.heatlhylittleones.com | 5/26/2005 3:07:19 PM

   Hmmm. Interesting. Change the search to 'IBM Strategery 2005', and Ed's Blog is up near the top.

1. 8  Jess Stratton http://www.mattandjess.net | 5/26/2005 3:13:55 PM

   Note that if you do the same search on Google NEWS, you'll get more "official" results. I think this is the deep and meaningful stuff Ed was talking about. I think a regular Google search vs. news is how they are keeping mediums seperate in search results. Also note that most of the Google News results start with "IBM announces..." :-)

1. 9  vowe http://vowe.net | 5/26/2005 3:30:10 PM

   There is a lesson to be learned:

   The minute IBM calls your product strategic, you are doomed. It's not Microsoft that spells the end of your product, it is not some analyst. IBM does that.

1. 10  Steve Castledine http://www.dominoblog.com | 5/26/2005 3:50:35 PM

   Something I have noticed about sites running { Link } (dominoblog) is that google likes them.

   It is real easy to get a high ranking google listing (ie Bens site) - dont know why - it was never intentional.

1. 11  Andrew Pollack http://www.thenorth.com/apblog | 5/26/2005 5:21:50 PM

   Steve, its the structure. The pages, when viewed as pure html, are content rich, hierarchical, contain many links, and contain a good many full sentences and multi-sentence paragraphs.

   Remember, the guys at Google are spending hunge amounts of time training their engine to "like" pages which are subjectively rich in content. To get there, they spend a great deal of time thinking about what makes a site rich.

   Lesson: Ignore the site optimization people -- produce good, easy to read, fully fleshed out content that doesn't require javascript re-loads or such to view.

1. 12  Nathan T. Freeman  | 5/27/2005 3:16:08 AM

   The results aren't quite so dramatic for...

   { Link }

   ...but still show other parties' commentary on the strategy ahead of MS's own statements.

1. 13  james governor www.redmonk.com/jgovernor | 5/27/2005 8:35:05 AM

   I would love to see what WebFountain would come up with for Google Strategy, but there is no way for me to find out. its a shame.

1. 14  Randall Shimizu  | 5/27/2005 1:24:54 PM

   As a former OS/2 user I have to say I was suprised that IBM had a 2005 strategy. But Serenity with it's Ecomstation product still proves that there is still a substantial number of OS/2 users around.

1. 15  Chris Hamoen www.ardexus.com | 6/22/2005 9:22:13 AM

   Now the top result for IBM Strategy 2005 is now this page!!!

   Now that's comedy!