Web Search University - Chris Sherman
September 19th, 2005Finally I get to be an attendee at an ITI event. I’m sitting at Web Search University. Great wireless connection. I’m ready to learn.
Chris Sherman is about to speak on “Web Search Update - September 2005″. I’ll take quick notes and live blog.
+ Feels like 1995 - Me-toosim, one upsmanship
+ Showing off “Gettyburg Address PPT”
and that it shows up in many search engines (NOT Ask Jeeves)
+ Looking at Yahoo - Instant Answer
+ Search engines are no longer Google clones.
+ Moving into personalization, search engines are refining tools
+ Personalization
- engines are taking different approaches
- there really are 4 engines that have survived, but new engines will emerge
- blending with social networks
+ Smart Answers, like Ask Jevees (search for Washington)
+ Google “Smart Answers”
+ MSN - Preseident of the United States
+ MSN does clustering now (he’s demoing something, but I can’t see it)
+ Yahoo - YQ Search
+ Yahoo - Mindset - Gettysburg Address - (Really cool)
Size Wars
+ The search engine wars continue
+ G! and Y! have been going at it
+ Chris: Size does not matter anymore, not meaningful
+ Google can’t count
+ We are still dealing with the Invisible Web.
+ Search engine overlap is smaller than before
+ Engines say that the Web has become infinite
Semantic Alerts
+ Bloglines search, not only blogs, but weather formats, tracking packages
+ Simple basic things
+ Google Sidebar - tracks things that you watch on the web and suggests blogs,
+ MSN has a “locate me” feature that works in IE
+ PubSub Alerts - In real time - Chris says, “Great concept”
May 31st, 2007 at 3:52 pm
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