Archive for the 'search' Category
Suit over search-engine keywords tries new angle
November 19th, 2009AP – “A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company’s link over a rival’s. The practice has occasionally prompted a rival to file legal challenges alleging trademark infringement. Now a Wisconsin law firm is trying a new [...]
comScore Releases October 2009 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
November 17th, 2009Press Release – “comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In October 2009, Americans conducted 14.3 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.4 percent search market share, up from 64.9 percent in September. Microsoft Sites grabbed 9.9 percent market [...]
Google, Microsoft Urged to Limit Search Data Storage
November 6th, 2009Bloomberg – “Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. must limit the amount of time they keep Internet- search records after failing to justify keeping the information beyond six months, European Union officials probing possible breaches of EU privacy laws said.”
For Web Search, the Time Is Now
November 1st, 2009Beta News – “Real-time functionality has been the holy grail for Internet search engines in a world that seems gripped by an information speed addiction. Soon the major players will be able to deliver up-to-the-second results gleaned from tweets, Facebook updates and a plethora of other sources for users obsessed with what’s happening right now.”
Stop Your Search Engines
October 24th, 2009NYT – “I’m not wishing the Internet away. It has become so integral to my work — to my life — that I honestly can’t recall what I did without it. But it has allowed us to reflexively indulge every passing interest, to expect answers to every fleeting question, to believe that if we search [...]
A New Search Engine Specializing in Fun
October 20th, 2009All Things Digital – “This week, I tested a tool called Goby (pronounced go-be)…which works as an activity search engine to help you find things to do. It tries to be simple enough so that you can get some ideas and start doing the things you want to do rather than wasting hours in front [...]
New comScore Search Engine Rankings
October 14th, 2009Google is still way ahead, with a whopping 64.9% share. The others should just give up, no?
Then again, there are those niche engines…
Google Continues to Lead Microsoft, Yahoo in Search Engine Satisfaction
August 18th, 2009eWeek – “The American Customer Satisfaction Index E-Business report from ForeSee Results and the University of Michigan said Google leads rival search engines from Yahoo and Microsoft in customer satisfaction, with a score of 86. Microsoft’s new Bing search engine was not a factor in this report, though it will be in 2010.”
comScore Study Highlights Challenges and Opportunities for Microsoft-Yahoo! Search Partnership
August 14th, 2009comScore, Inc – “comScore today released an analysis of the U.S. search market landscape, following the search partnership announced recently between Yahoo! and Microsoft. The analysis reveals that while the two companies’ combined search share still lags Google by a wide margin, their combined search audience offers opportunity to become more competitive in the search [...]
Kids’ search terms: Sex, games, rock ‘n’ rol
August 11th, 2009CNET News – “Kids search for the darndest things online. In recent months, they’ve been looking for everything from Facebook and YouTube to Michael Jackson, Miley Cyrus, and someone named Fred. Oh, yes, they’re also looking for pictures their parents probably don’t want them to see.”
Bing sees slight uptick in July
August 3rd, 2009CNET – “It’ll probably still be a long time before people start saying things like “I’d spend some time binging that guy before I go on a date with him,” but in the U.S. things are looking up for Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, which was unveiled in May.”
Librarians: Bing has to find niche
August 1st, 2009eSchool News – “School and campus librarians say Google likely will remain the preferred option for student and faculty research even after the much-ballyhooed deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, but they say Microsoft’s Bing search engine could cater to image searches in particular.”
Wolfram Alpha: Don’t call it a search engine
July 6th, 2009PC World – “Wolfram Alpha can’t answer every question that a search engine can; but on topics it has data for, such as a town’s historical temperature reading, it offers deep information.”
Twitter Search Share: .001 Percent!
June 17th, 2009Of course, this will change
Search engine comparisons
June 10th, 2009Phil Bradley – “There are a few resources that have popped up in the last few days that allow you to compare searches from the major engines in a blind taste testing exercise.”
What makes a good search engine name?
June 4th, 2009BBC – “We've got Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves and Dogpile, among others. Now Microsoft has re-launched its search engine as Bing.com. So, what makes a good search engine name?”
Review: Flaws in Web’s much-touted WolframAlpha
May 13th, 2009Associated Press – “Yet after testing the service for a few weeks, I think WolframAlpha is unlikely to become a household name – and not just because of the gauze-in-the-mouth logjam of two “f” sounds in the title. While WolframAlpha is brilliant at times and elegant in its display, there aren't many ways everyday Web [...]
The Online Search Party – A Way to Share the Load
November 23rd, 2008NYTimes.com – “OPPORTUNITIES for social networking abound on the Internet, but not when it comes to one standard job: using a browser and search engine to comb the Web for information. That task is still typically done solo, because browser displays and search procedures have traditionally been designed for a single user.”
Deep Web Tech Dives Into Vertical Search Portals
November 13th, 2008ITI – “Deep Web Technologies (www.deepwebtech.com) recently launched a beta version of a free, federated search portal, Biznar (www.biznar.com), a publicly available business research website.”
Librarians Want to Out-Google Google With a Better Search Engine
November 11th, 2008Wired Campus – “Have you ever wished for a personal reference librarian, an information guru to point you to the most reliable sites whenever you search the Web? A new search-engine project aims to simulate something like that. The trick? Weighting search results so that librarians’ picks rise to the top.”
Very interesting. Of course, not [...]
What is The Future of Human Powered Search?
October 8th, 2008ReadWriteWeb – “In this post we look at the pros and cons of human powered search engines in general, look at some differentiating strategies and ask “what is the future for Human Powered Search?”
Hakia Semantic Search Taps Librarians for More Credible Results
October 6th, 2008Mashable – “Hakia recently announced an outreach to librarians and information professionals to help make its results even more credible. The company will be expanding its focus beyond the medical scope and wants the assistance of professionals to make sure that the next market it turns its focus on delivers results as trustworthy as its [...]
Searching as a Team
March 16th, 2008Technology Review – “Social software is proliferating online, but many of the most common Internet tools, such as search engines, are still used in isolation.” (via)
Search Survey
December 3rd, 2007Andy Oram – “The next time you have to search for information on any topic, try recording your efforts in a survey I’ve just put up.”
Search This
November 26th, 2007Technology Review – “Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, pinpoint the location of keywords, and direct the user to them.”
Whoa!!!! (via)
Searchers are ‘Ask’ing More
November 23rd, 2007The latest search stats.
More people using Ask.com, which is always a good thing.
Hakia
November 5th, 2007Query an engine, meet others who asked the same thing.
Interesting concept.
Stephen Baker – “[A]ny pedophiles dumb enough to use it would probably bump into a cop or two.”
Advanced Searching Techniques
October 11th, 2007Genie Tyburski – “Seeking out facts, and even basic information on a topic, is relatively easy. Enter 2 or 3 relevant keywords at your favorite search engine. But going beyond the basic, or conducting investigative research, often means using advanced search commands, not to mention additional or more targeted finding tools. This article examines the [...]
More on People Searching
September 4th, 2007Paula J. Hane – “Over the last 2 months, my inbox has been deluged with story pitches, requests for briefings, and press releases—all about various new and updated people search tools. Apparently, it’s the new vertical search area that entrepreneurs have decided to tackle—all of them betting they can provide better and more accurate results [...]
Searching For People?
August 31st, 2007Verne Kopytoff – “Rather than scouring the entire Internet, these search engines troll only Web sites that are rich with personal information. The results they provide are individual profiles coupled with links to where users can find more details.”
