Bug: Google Social Search Goes Offline Temporarily

Nov 16, 2009 at 9:29am ET by Barry Schwartz

Over the weekend, I received several emails, noticed dozens of Tweets, saw several forum posts and noticed for myself that Google Social Search experimental search feature went offline. If you have opt in to the Social Search feature at google.com/experimental you will notice an error on your Google searches that reads, "The experiment you're trying to access is no longer available. Go to experiments overview." Google has confirmed this is a temporary issue and that a fix will be in place sometime today or tomorrow. Here is Google's official statement on this matter: The Google Soci [...]

Filed in: Google: Social Search, Search Engines: Experimental

Does Marissa Mayer’s “Perfect Search Engine” Already Exist In Siri?

Nov 10, 2009 at 6:36pm ET by Greg Sterling

Recently IDG News Service asked Google's Marissa Mayer about the "perfect search engine." Here was the question posed: "What is the perfect search engine? If you had a magic wand and could create it, what would it look like? What would it do?" Mayer replied: "It would be a machine that could answer that question, really. It would be one that could understand speech, questions, phrases, what entities you're talking about, concepts. It would be able to search all of the world's information, [find] different ideas and concepts, and bring them back to you in a presentation that was really infor [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Experimental, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Search Features: Commands, Search Features: Natural Language

Five More Search Tools You May Not Know … But Should

Jul 21, 2009 at 7:46am ET by Matt McGee

Have you ever needed to see the search results for another city -- maybe because you want to see what PPC ads are shown somewhere else? Have you ever needed to see search results from a different country, or in a different language? Maybe you're into real time search, and you'd love a place to find the latest photos and videos being shared on Twitter. Or perhaps you're planning a vacation abroad, but you're not sure when is the best time to visit Europe. It's time again for another roundup of the latest and greatest search tools and search engines, and in this article, I'll share five such [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Events Search Engines, Search Engines: Experimental, Search Engines: Meta Search Engines, Search Engines: Outside USA, Search Engines: Photo & Image Search, Search Engines: Real Time Search, Search Engines: Travel Search Engines, Search Engines: Video Search Engines

Wolfram Alpha Makes Public Debut

Apr 28, 2009 at 7:35pm ET by Matt McGee

The highly anticipated Wolfram Alpha search engine made its debut today, although Google tossed in a little spoiler. The webcast was apparently difficult for some to view, but you can get impressions of what happened from Between The Lines and Bits. The site also has a new blog and Twitter account, and we'll be looking at it more closely in the near future ourselves. There's more discussion on Techmeme. Postscript: See Impressive: The Wolfram Alpha “Fact Engine”, our review of the service. [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Experimental, Search Engines: Other Search Engines, Search Engines: Wolfram Alpha

U Rank – Microsoft’s Social Search Experimental Site

Oct 9, 2008 at 8:53pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Out now from Microsoft Research is U Rank, an experiment that allows people to move results around, as well as share them with friends and add comments to listings. Want to play? Sigh. You have to register using a Windows Live ID. Why not just make it open for anyone to use on a cookie basis? The cookie could allow short term changes to be remembered, while logging in could be done for those who wanted to protect their edits in the long term. Anyway, once in, you can do a search and wait, and wait, and wait to get back results. Perhaps the response time will improve. When they [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Search 4.0, Search Engines: Experimental, Search Features: Drag & Drop Results, Top News

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