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Nov. 21, 2007 at 12:38pm by Danny Sullivan
Flight Tracking, Airport Conditions, Real-Time Traffic, & Other Thanksgiving Search Tips
With the US about to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow, how are the major search engines gearing up to support an onslaught of Thanksgiving queries? Let's take a look at how you can use them, ranging from flight tracking tools to special "shortcut" or "smart answer" boxes leading to...
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Sep. 10, 2007 at 9:38am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Translator
The LiveSide blog points to a blog post which shows Microsoft has launched Windows Live Translator Beta. You can translate from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. It supports up to 500 characters and uses Systran, but can override the Systran source with...
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Jun. 28, 2007 at 9:06am by Barry Schwartz
Mossberg, Ask.com "Goes Much Further" Than Google
Ask.com Takes Lead In Designing Display Of Search Results by Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal reviews Ask.com's new 3D look. Mossberg gave Ask.com great reviews, comparing Ask.com's three-pane approach to Google's Universal Search approach. Mossberg said Ask.com "took greater strides" than Google with their user interface. The new...
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Jun. 22, 2007 at 1:38pm by Phil Bradley
Looking At Ask.com's New Home Page Features
The Ask.com blog posts today about Ask's new home page, which they are particularly proud of, and I think rightly so. They talk about their icons, suggest feature and skins, all of which are worth a quick peek....
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Jun. 20, 2007 at 2:57pm by Danny Sullivan
This July: Try Google-Free Fridays!
Back in 2002, I called Google the "Marcia Brady" of search. Fans of the Brady Bunch know that Marcia was one of six children, and middle daughter Jan felt Marcia got all the attention. "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia," she'd often complain, just as today, it often seems to be "Google, Google,...
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May. 24, 2007 at 8:23am by Greg Sterling
Google Launches 'Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR)'
As promised at its "Searchology" event last week, Google has launched cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). It's now been added as a new feature to Google Translate and went live yesterday. As Chris Sherman previously wrote, Google is playing a bit of catch-up with this initiative; Yahoo has been doing this...
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Apr. 19, 2007 at 4:34pm by Danny Sullivan
The Case Of The Missing White House Cached Page On Google
In my story about Google's new content removal tools, I highlighted the fact that anyone can potentially wipe out the cached copy of a page, even if they aren't the page's author. To illustrate this, I was going to use as an example how the official George W. Bush page's...
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Mar. 8, 2007 at 9:02am by Barry Schwartz
Ask City's Shape Search Tool For Local Search Results
The Ask.com Blog announced a neat new feature that enables you to literally shape your own local search results. You can go to Ask City, locate a location, draw a circle or square in a certain location and then search specifically within that location. Below is a screen cast I...
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Feb. 26, 2007 at 9:20am by Barry Schwartz
Google Video Plus Box Results
Philipp Lenssen spotted plus box results at Google for Google Video results. He noticed it for a search on nightwish videos, but I do not see it myself. For a screen capture check out Philipp's Google Blogoscoped. We have covered two other plus box results in the past. Google "Plus...
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Feb. 16, 2007 at 10:24am by Danny Sullivan
Wikipedia Enters Top Ten Most Visited Sites
Impressive. Scanning the latest top web sites rankings from comScore for January 2007 , Wikipedia sites are highlighted for just entering the top ten most visited. OK, technically -- they're in the top ten for having the most unique visitors. In December 2006, Wikipedia sites were ranked 13th of all...
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Feb. 5, 2007 at 4:58pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Releases New Link Reporting Tools
For years, Google's link: command (and see here) has deliberately failed to show all the links to a website. This came out of Google's fear that site owners simply wanted the data to try and manipulate rankings -- which was pretty true. Instead, they only provided a sampling of...
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Jan. 15, 2007 at 9:53am by Danny Sullivan
Study Says Get In Top 5 Not Top 10 & Search Engines May Need To Highlight Official Sites
On Friday, we reported briefly on a new eye tracking study from Microsoft on how users interact with search results. I spent some time doing a deep dive into the survey, which is full of interesting information. Among the findings is that search marketers may need to be more concerned...
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Dec. 19, 2006 at 2:03pm by Barry Schwartz
Ask.com Tests New Search Interface With Ask X
The Read Write Web blog first spotted Ask.com testing a new interface they named Ask X. The new interface sports a steel background for the home page with more goodies inside. A search on Ask X for barry schwartz shows a three column pane interface. On the left hand...
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Dec. 7, 2006 at 3:46pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Adds "More" DHTML Button On Search Results Page
Yahoo added a "more" button that seems to be a DHTML or CSS contextual drop down menu with more search options to the inner search pages. So if you do a search on gary price at Yahoo Search (he tipped me off to this), you will notice next to the...
