So we've had this little Zibb experiment running for well over a year now and you haven't heard a word from us. In today's Web-2.0-it's-all-about-conversation-world, you have to ask "What were we thinking???" Well, to be honest, we were a little busy and kept putting the conversation off. Now after all this time, the impact of talking about the goals could be a bit like the sound of a tree falling in the forest when no one is there to hear it; but we'll bash on regardless.

Over the coming months we'll try to make up for the silent treatment we've given everyone by talking about Zibb.com, B2B and vertical search, taxonomies, ontologies, tagging, user interfaces, spam, entity recognition, advertising, and search in general. We'll share feedback users have given us, point out interesting developments in the search and publishing industries, and we'll offer unsolicited opinions. We won't tackle it with any structure and we won't constrain ourselves to any particular topics. Oh, and hopefully we won't just talk about ourselves.

We're going to let different team members contribute, we're going to be as open, honest and transparent as possible, and we're committed to the conversation. We don't take ourselves too seriously so please speak freely. We do take our business and our users seriously, so again, please speak VERY freely. Use the comments section on this blog as well as our feedback forms to ask any questions about the site, the team, the ideas, etc and we'll do our best to come clean.

Now we'll all go off to debate whether this is indeed the worst-first post EVER on any blog. I am sure to take a few hits from the team on this one...