Search Features > Search Features: Tagging
May. 28, 2008 at 8:51am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Joins The Social Bookmarking Game
Microsoft's John Martin has shared a preview of the new Microsoft social bookmarking tool that will be demonstrated at the TechEd North America event in the upcoming week. John provided a shortlist of features and two screen captures of the social bookmarking tool at his blog post. Based on the...
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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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Feb. 27, 2007 at 4:43pm by Greg Sterling
Happy Birthday, Flickr: Web 2.0 Pioneer Turns Three
On March 3rd, Flickr turns three. Flickr is in many ways the company that helped define "Web 2.0" and was its poster child for quite some time. And Yahoo's acquisition of Flickr, in March, 2005, after only a year in existence and, even then, a longish courtship was one of...
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Jan. 12, 2007 at 1:34pm by Bill Slawski
Search Patent Documents for 1-12-07 - Limited Access Documents in Search Results
A wide range of newly published patent applications and granted patents, covering such ground as subscribed content in search results from Google; tag searching, detecting similar audio files, and simpler support vector machines from Yahoo; geographic based searching from MetaCarta; and data center architecture and smarter results to queries from...
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Jan. 4, 2007 at 1:40am by Bill Slawski
Tagging Isn't Indexing: A Study of Del.icio.us Tagging
Have you ever tagged an image in Flickr, a link in Del.icio.us, a video in YouTube? Have you used tags in these systems to find similar pictures or pages or videos? Is tagging is taking indexing away from professional indexers, and putting it into the hands of amateurs. Have you...
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Dec. 1, 2006 at 7:12pm by Danny Sullivan
Jon Kleinberg On Communities At Yahoo
Another one from the clean-out my email files. Earlier this year, I was visiting at Yahoo doing briefings. At another Yahoo campus, Cornell University professor Jon Kleinberg was visiting and giving a standing room only lecture. I'd have been standing with everyone as well, had I known. Kleinberg is legendary...
