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We’re honored to be invited by Charles Knight and the good folks over at AltSearchEngines and ReadWriteWeb to participate in their pre-web-2.0-expo AltSearchEngines Get Together on Monday, April 21 in San Francisco. We’ll be contributing to the insightful discussion during the “User’s First: Give them WHAT they want, the WAY they want (and need)” panel [...]

Levy Cohen, CEO and Founder of Collarity, will be speaking with several other companies on the Impact of the Social Graph on Search and Discovery at the upcoming December 12th WebGuild Silicon Valley meeting in Mt. View. WebGuild meetings are always lively and informative. The session details are below:

What: Imact of the Social Graph on [...]

When you look at an ant farm or a beehive do you see chaos, or a highly organized system of segmented roles, responsibilities, and interests? Unless you are an entomologist, it might be difficult to understand what’s going on.
What about when you look at the activity on your website? Do you see “traffic” and “popular [...]

We, of course, love discussions about the advancement of search technology and we were gratified to be highlighted this week in the “Top 17 Search Innovations Outside of Google” article and search innovation poll on Read/WriteWeb. The results, as of this post, are included to the right.
We think there are a couple of big things [...]

Business usually works best when decisions are based on data, instead of “gut”. The headwaters of truth, for many organizations, lives within their customer base. Want to know which way to vector product development? Ask your current customers. For websites, it’s important to understand the distinct communities of interest that live on your site, and [...]

Collarity has been invited to provide a demonstration of our community-powered site search and content recommendation platform for web publishers on Tuesday, June 19th, at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference. Collarity will be detailing several case studies of how our our service improves website content findability and monetization, leveraging the anonymous searching [...]

We’re always happy when our customers are happy. We’re even happier when they write about it, so we don’t have to.
Recently, all of the local Fox TV affiliates began using Collarity to provide search and content discovery for their web visitors. The Fox TV folks in Kansas City posted an announcement to let all of [...]

We’ve been getting calls and emails asking what we think about Google’s recent announced shift toward more personalized search results and how their personalization compares to Collarity’s. The Google story has been widely reported by people like like Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land and Kevin Newcomb at Search Engine Watch.
First, a quick clarifying point:
Collarity [...]

We are big fans of Wikipedia. There has been lots of excitement and speculation in the blogosphere this week about Wikia’s entry into the social search arena. Both Matt Marshall at VentureBeat and Phil Bradley mention comparisons to Collarity and others in their recent posts about the new Wikia search effort.
We agree with Wikia’s [...]

It was refreshing to hear and speak with Jack Ma at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco last month — we think Jack knows “jack” about web publishing and search. He is the CEO and co-founder of the China-based alibaba.com with over 30 million registered users in more than 200 countries.
Jack’s presentation was interesting [...]