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Jul. 5, 2007 at 9:17am by Greg Sterling
FAST Buys Recommendations Engine AgentArts
Enterprise search provider FAST Search & Transfer has acquired personalization platform and recommendations engine AgentArts. The technology will be folded into FAST's various enterprise search offerings, which include a range of site search and monetization options for online publishers. The company also has a mobile search partnership with InfoSpace. FAST...
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May. 9, 2007 at 9:18am by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Travel Adds Personalization, New Maps
Yahoo Travel has redesigned and added a range of features, including personalization and new mapping tools to the site. It's also seeking to more deeply integrate travel properties FareChase (its fares and rates "meta search" engine) and Trip Planner (its user-generated content site) into Travel. Flickr is also well represented...
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Mar. 9, 2007 at 8:13am by Gord Hotchkiss
The Pros & Cons Of Personalized Search
In the past two weeks I've had the opportunity to talk to both Marissa Mayer and Matt Cutts about the impact of personalization at Google. While the initial storm following Google's announcement seems to be dying down somewhat, the ripple effects can still be felt throughout the SEM industry....
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Feb. 8, 2007 at 12:06pm by Greg Sterling
Will Google Remain 'The Start Page For The Internet'?
This subject is worthy of perhaps a 10,000 word New Yorker article. But this will just be a relatively short post based on some thinking following a meeting with Netvibes CEO Tariq Krim in San Francisco the other day....
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Feb. 2, 2007 at 10:46pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Ramps Up Personalized Search
Google is stepping up the push into personalized search results. A new change announced today should cause many more people to take up the service. In turn, the growth of personalized search should have a dramatic impact on search marketers as the days of "same results, all around" eventually come...
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Jan. 26, 2007 at 8:58am by Barry Schwartz
Dan Cohen, Ex-Yahoo Lead, New CEO of Pageflakes
Ex-Yahoo Exec now Pageflakes CEO by Om Malik reports that Dan Cohen, who was the Head of My Yahoo business unit, left Yahoo to become the CEO of Pageflakes. Gary Price recently reviewed Pageflakes, describing it as an easy and free way to "build a dynamic personalized home/start page." It...
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Jan. 4, 2007 at 3:21pm by Bill Slawski
Improved Information Retrieval - Looking at Context with Susan Dumais
Desktop and file search can be very different than web search, and the user's context plays an important role in what is valuable when creating a search algorithm. But understanding context may be helpful to web search, too. Microsoft's Susan Dumais has done an extensive amount of research on how...
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Dec. 18, 2006 at 6:30am by Phil Bradley
Decipho Personalized Search Engine
Decipho officially launched on December 14th after having been available since October. It's an interesting search engine because it takes the concept of social search another stage further, while at the same time offering very useful personalisation. There are lots of things that you can do with it, but I...
