Dispatches: from the Searchnomics Conference and a Powerset evening!

Two major Search events, back to back!

On Wednesday, I attended the Searchnomics 2007 Conference at Santa Clara,CA. I expect to be blogging about those sessions for a little while, but two items in particular stand out in my mind: the closing keynote address by Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience at Google (which you can read about in detail in my Read/WriteWeb post ) and a highly entertaining session on Advanced Web Analytics by uber-evangelist Avinash Kaushik. [Another session on Web Analytics by independent consultant Eric Peterson, was alo very illuminating!]

Thursday's event was a blogger/tech-media bash at Powerset's headquarters in San Francisco. Powerset, a heavily-anticipated Semantic search engine, has been gathering a lot of press lately as a potential "Google-killer". Tonight was the first public demonstration of Powerset's capabilities, technology and people. A more detailed post follows soon ...

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