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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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Nov. 29, 2007 at 9:25am by Barry Schwartz
Google Like/Don't Like: Move Results Up, Hide Them Or Suggest Your Own
Google has rolled out a new experimental feature that allows anyone to alter search results in the way they like. You can move good results higher, hide ones you think are bad and suggest your own....
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Dec. 26, 2006 at 9:02am by Barry Schwartz
How Microsoft's Behavioral Targeting Works
Microsoft Ad Push Is All About You at the Wall Street Journal has a nice overview of how Microsoft's behavioral targeting ad software works, nothing ground breaking, but a nice overview. I'll quote a piece of the article for you: Here's how it works: If someone types in "compare car...
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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...
