Search Resources
May. 7, 2008 at 10:17am by Danny Sullivan
From My Inbox: Some Search Tools To Checkout
After Yahoo-Microsoft madness, a bit of a lull. So I'm cleaning out my inbox and wanted to mention a few items that might be of interest. Below, a way to quickly search blogs & social media sites all at once, a new video search tool, a study into automatic search...
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Apr. 28, 2008 at 9:48am by Danny Sullivan
WWW2008: Search Research Paper Roundup
A variety of interesting research papers on search have come out of WWW2008, the 17th International World Wide Web Conference. Some I've blogged already. Below is a rundown on those and some other papers that may be of interest. For the attention-challenged, I've also included my now patented "Twitter"...
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Apr. 20, 2008 at 9:14am by Greg Sterling
"Browser Search Engine" ChunkIt Launches
On Friday ChunkIt launched in a private beta. ChunkIt is a search download that sits on top of existing results and enables users to preview them before clicking. Relevant "chunks" of content are called out in a separate pane that splits the screen between the engine and the ChunkIt page....
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Aug. 9, 2007 at 1:40am by Bill Slawski
Supplemental Results and Google's Extended Databases
Until very recently, you might have seen a label next to a search result in Google that indicated it was a "supplemental" result. A couple of patents from Google, one of which was granted this week and one from earlier this year, discuss how a search query might return results...
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Aug. 6, 2007 at 10:43am by Barry Schwartz
Cheat Sheet For Google Cheat Sheets
Lifehacker points to a two-page Google Cheat Sheet PDF document that contains information on the company, their services, the IP addresses for Googlebot, Google domains, famous operators and much more. But aren't there more Google cheat sheets? Sure -- here are some others:...
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Jul. 19, 2007 at 5:15pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Free Fridays Now Officially Become Google Free Mondays
Earlier this month, we started the Google Free Friday series, designed to open readers' eyes to search engines beyond Google. AOL happened on schedule, then I had to move Ask.com to this past Monday, as I got behind in writing as we launched our Sphinn social news and sharing site....
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Jul. 17, 2007 at 4:08pm by Greg Sterling
Google's Research Director Peter Norvig On 'The Future Of Search'
MIT's Technology Review published an interview with Google Director of Research Peter Norvig that explores his (and presumably Google's) thinking about problems in search and "next-generation" search functionality that Google is working on. There's nothing strikingly new in the interview but it's an interesting overview and window into some of...
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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. 3, 2007 at 4:03am by Phil Bradley
Return To The Search Engine Shoot-Out
My colleague Chris Sherman briefly looked at the PC World ‘Search Engine Shoot-out’ article the other day, and I also mentioned it in my own weblog. I read through the article briefly, but something about it kept nagging me, so I wanted to go back and look at it in...
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Feb. 23, 2007 at 12:03pm by Chris Sherman
Happy Anniversary, ResearchBuzz!
Tara Calishain's wonderful ResearchBuzz, tagged as "news about search engines, databases, and other information collections," marked a major milestone yesterday, with 400 "issues" having appeared in nearly nine years of publication. If you're not familiar with ResearchBuzz, you should be. Many search marketers aren't familiar with the "other side" of...
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Jan. 19, 2007 at 1:28pm by Chris Sherman
Looksmart's Furl Gets A Facelift
Furl, a personal web-page clipping and sharing service that I reviewed several years ago, has a streamlined new look, and is also faster. Looksmart has also made it easier to create and find topics to help you organized your cache of saved web pages, and has improved the browser buttons...
