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May. 9, 2008 at 11:00am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Buys My Favorite Search Browser Plugin, Inquisitor For Apple Safari
Yahoo has acquired my favorite search browser plugin for Apple Safari, Inquisitor. Inquisitor is an extremely useful search refinement and search aid tool for the Apple browser market. Inquisitor offers autocomplete, refinements, suggestions, and also allows you to add any search engine you like, plus create your own personalized and...
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Mar. 21, 2008 at 9:43am by Barry Schwartz
Google Suggest Becoming A Default Feature?
I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable about how I spotted a WebmasterWorld thread that has three members noticing Google Suggest like features on Google.com. Basically, when these users go to Google.com and begin typing in a query, Google begins to offer search suggestions. Google has implemented this feature as...
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Jan. 23, 2008 at 12:25pm by Chris Sherman
Anything Else? Vivisimo's Remix Clustering Surfaces Subtler Results
You know that aggravating feeling you get when you've done a search and your results are OK, but you're sure there's something better if only the "obvious" results weren't totally dominant? Or if you could somehow come up with a cleverer way of expressing your query without wasting a bunch...
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Aug. 29, 2007 at 1:29pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Launches Search Suggestions In The UK
Yahoo UK has launched Search Suggest at Yahoo Search for UK users. If you do not see it now, you will probably see it in the "coming days," a Yahoo representative told me. When you begin to type a keyword, Yahoo will now offer their UK users suggestions. I covered...
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Aug. 17, 2007 at 11:57am by Larry Cornett
Search & Serendipity: Finding More When You Know Less
Today, Just Behave welcomes the second of our guest columnists, Larry Cornett, Vice President of Search Experience at Yahoo.—Gord Hotchkiss Where do you go to get your daily fix of fresh information? If you are like millions of other users out there, you hit sites like Digg, Delicious, Techmeme,...
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Aug. 6, 2007 at 8:54am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Adds Search Suggestions To Toolbar
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that downloads of the Yahoo Toolbar for Internet Explorer will now have "as you type" search suggestions functionality. Yahoo has been on a search suggestion frenzy lately, last month launching search suggestions on Yahoo.com and beta testing Yahoo Search Assist....
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Jul. 25, 2007 at 11:39pm by Danny Sullivan
Search Suggestions On Steroids: Yahoo Search Assist
I chuckled a bit over the buzz Yahoo got when they launched Yahoo Search Suggest earlier this month because I knew something even better was coming: Yahoo Search Assist. Finally, it's going live and in the wild for lucky people who are selected at random for testing. If all goes...
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Jul. 12, 2007 at 8:49am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo.com Adds Search Suggestions
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that the search box on Yahoo.com now offers search suggestions as you type. For example, as I started typing "danny s", Yahoo offered suggestions, including "danny sullivan."...
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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. 22, 2007 at 8:53am by Barry Schwartz
Google: 25% Of Queries Are New & Adding Question Engine
Google's Udi Manber - Search is a Hard Problem from Read/Write Web has an interesting write up on a presentation that Udi Manber, Google's VP of Engineering, gave the other day at Supernova. In his presentation, he covered why "search is a hard problem." But a few of his statements...
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Mar. 23, 2007 at 10:52am by Barry Schwartz
Court: Google Suggest Feature Not Responsible For Encouraging Software Piracy
Belgian company loses lawsuit against Google from IT World reports that Google has won a suit brought against them by ServersCheck, a Belgian company. The company complained that the Google Suggest feature was helping people find pirated versions of its software....
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Mar. 22, 2007 at 8:47am by Barry Schwartz
Google Adds Related Phrases To Definitions
Threadwatch spotted that Google has added "related phrases" to the Google definitions feature. For example, a search on define:car shows at the top: Related phrases: car rental cable car trailer on flat car stock car tank car pace car car kit champ car box car racer...
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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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Mar. 1, 2007 at 5:36am by Phil Bradley
Quintura Relaunches With New Interface
Quintura recently relaunched with a new interface, which has been receiving a fair amount of comment. I originally wrote about the search engine back in November, and I was fairly lukewarm in my praise of it; while it was a nice idea, the interface held it back. Well, the relaunched...
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Feb. 23, 2007 at 9:35am by Barry Schwartz
Search Suggestions The Default At Google China?
Philipp Lenssen reports that when you begin typing a search in at Google China, Google begins offering you suggestions. At Google.com, the default is not to give you suggestions, you have to go directly to Google Suggest to get that feature. It appears that Google China, by default, has Google...
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Jan. 16, 2007 at 3:03pm by Danny Sullivan
Disclosing When Queries Are Autocorrected
Google Auto-correcting Queries from Google Operating System notes that Google seems to have moved beyond suggesting spelling corrections and now automatically does them for you. Actually, I think this is the stemming feature kicking in. However, it highlights that it's useful for search engines to tell you exactly what...
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Jan. 15, 2007 at 5:30pm by Danny Sullivan
More Spotting Google's Related Searches At Bottom Of Page
Last month, we reported how Google was testing related searches at the bottom of search results pages, which Google's Matt Cutts confirmed in comments on our post. In the past few days, I've seen a flood of further posts about related searches as more and more people spot these. Yes,...
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Dec. 29, 2006 at 7:37pm by Danny Sullivan
Q&A With Jimmy Wales On Search Wikia
News came out earlier this week that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had a new project in mind, to build a community-driven "Google-killer" search engine. I've just finished talking with Jimmy about his plans. Here's a rundown on his vision and what may come as his Search Wikia project grows...
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Dec. 19, 2006 at 9:28am by Barry Schwartz
Google Tests Related Searches At Bottom Of Page
I reported at Search Engine Roundtable that Google is now showing related searches at the bottom of the search results page. An example query working now is for michael jordan, scroll down to the bottom of the page and you might see the "Searches related to: michael jordan" area. If...
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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...
