Second Life Wiki. 99 Rides. Watch Out Google, Vertical Search Is Ramping Up! Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.
This week at DEMOfall I saw two vertical search applications that made me think that this area is getting mature and ready for prime time. Pluggd and Retrevo launched technologies that are not only good at finding podcasts and consumer electronics (respectively) - these sites categorize and present information in fundamentally new, different and intelligent ways.