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Apr. 28, 2008 at 6:46am by Danny Sullivan
Microsoft Paper: Improving Search Results By Mining Web Surfing Activity
A new research paper from Microsoft looks at how surfing behavior -- as logged by a search toolbar -- can be used to improve search results....
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Feb. 19, 2008 at 2:58pm by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Makes Big Customer Satisfaction Gains In Search
The Yahoo Search Blog discusses improvements in consumer satisfaction scores for Yahoo Search, according to the most recent Keynote Customer Experience Rankings of search engines. According to Keynote Systems, "Yahoo! is, indeed, achieving noticeable improvements in user experience and beginning to close the gap with Google in several key search...
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Jan. 18, 2008 at 10:13am by Greg Sterling
Center For The Digital Future: Perceptions Of Search Reliability And Accuracy Declining
The University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication's Center for the Digital Future is engaged in an ambitious longitudinal study on consumer behavior and media usage. Each year the center surveys the same 2,000 US adults to track attitudes toward media as well as any changes in actual media...
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Oct. 18, 2007 at 3:29pm by Greg Sterling
With Dogpile Beating Google In Satisfaction, Owner InfoSpace Needs To Reinvent Itself, Be Risky With Metasearch
InfoSpace recently sold both its local and directory assets and its mobile platform business to Idearc/Superpages and Motricity respectively. So what's left? Specifically Dogpile and its cousins Metacrawler, Webcrawler and the domain InfoSpace.com. The company also owns the kid-friendly search site Zoo.com. Amid all this, JD Power & Associates has...
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Aug. 14, 2007 at 8:16am by Greg Sterling
Ask Jumps, Google Slips and Yahoo Leads American Customer Satisfaction Index for Search
For the first time, Yahoo has beaten Google in the annual University of Michigan American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The survey measures U.S. consumer satisfaction across a broad range of business and product categories including "e-business," which covers search. The survey asks a statistically representative sample of consumers to rate...
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Jul. 23, 2007 at 9:08am by Barry Schwartz
Are Search Engines Biased?
Search Engines and Favoritism from Google Operating System has put together a quick study comparing the top results from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's search engines. The results showed that for 10 generic searches, the search engines (excluding Microsoft) tend to rank their own properties higher than their competitors. For example,...
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Jun. 29, 2007 at 5:09pm by Danny Sullivan
London Car Bombs: The Big Fat Search Failure
I was in London last night right smack in the area where a large bomb was defused this morning. Naturally, I was curious about what exactly had happened. I hit the news sites, but then I wondered what would happen for those searching generally for information using search engines. Both...
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Jun. 28, 2007 at 9:42am by Barry Schwartz
Study: Good Brand Can Make Search Seem More Relevant
Penn State released a report -- Branding matters -- even when searching -- that claims the brand value of a search engine can make searchers believe results are better or worse than they are....
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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. 1, 2007 at 9:45am by Greg Sterling
Dogpile: Search Results On Major Engines Diverging
InfoSpace-owned metasearch engine Dogpile, which recently refreshed its homepage and made other, minor changes, published the results of its second "search overlap" study. The first study, released in 2005 and commissioned from the University of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania State University, found that 84.9 percent of results on search engines were...
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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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Apr. 25, 2007 at 5:07pm by Chris Sherman
Stop Presses! Google Bested In Search Shoot-Out!
PC World has released the results of its most recent search engine shoot-out, and surprise, surprise, found that "Google is indeed the best search engine." However... This wasn't just a casual test, and Google wasn't the best across the board with all types of queries and content. The author tested...
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Mar. 19, 2007 at 1:37pm by Barry Schwartz
30% Of Results For Some Competitive Searches Found To Be Spam
Researchers Track Down a Plague of Fake Web Pages from the NY Times reports on a recent paper from Microsoft Research released named "Spam Double-Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers with Advertisers" [PDF download] (also note that Gary linked to it Friday). The report categorizes search results spam by industry category, showing...
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Dec. 28, 2006 at 9:16am by Barry Schwartz
Question & Answer Search Engines Ranked
Via Slashdot, What's the Best Q&A Site? from MIT Technology Review tests several question and answer search engine services. They reviewed and ranked AnswerBag, Askville, Live QnA, Wondir, Yahoo Answers and Yedda. So how did they rank? Out of a total 12 points, Yahoo Answers scored 11 points, coming out...
