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
Up Close With Google Search Options
Oct 1, 2009 at 12:00pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Now that Google Search Options has added new features, I thought it was a good time to revisit how everything works -- and in some cases, doesn't work. Let's get up close and personal with all the filtering options!
By the way, this is a long article. If you want a digest of what's new today, then see the much shorter companion piece, Google Adds Visited Pages, Past Hour & Fewer Shopping Sites Filtering.
Using Search Options
The Search Options panel is available after you do a search. Look near the top left-hand side of the search page, just below the search box, and you'll see [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Google: User Interface, Google: Web History & Search History, Google: Web Search, Search Features: Commands, Search Features: Dates, Search Features: Query Refinement, Top News
New Video: Easy Tips For Better Searching
Oct 15, 2008 at 3:57pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Last year, Common Craft produced a great, short video explaining RSS "in plain English." The company is back now with another wonderful one, Web Search Strategies in Plain English. It's less than three minutes long and does a great job explaining how to use some of the most simple "power" commands at searchers' disposal -- the minus sign and quotation marks. Be sure to check it out! The video is also below:
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Filed in: Search Features: Commands, Search Features: Query Refinement, Search Resources
What You Can Learn From Google’s “Site” Operator
May 22, 2008 at 7:52am ET by Jill Whalen
Google has a set of advanced search operators that can be accessed either through the advanced search page, or by using specialized commands in conjunction with your query from any Google web search box. One of the most useful for search engine optimization is the "site:" operator.
Google's "site:" is an advanced search operator that allows you to see the URLs they have indexed for your website.
To access it, you simply type into Google's search box the following:
site:www.example.com
Substituting your own domain for example.com, of course.
This is one of the first things we do when res [...]
Filed in: 100% Organic, Search Features: Commands
Link Development Tool Shortcuts For Firefox
Apr 23, 2008 at 6:04pm ET by Rae Hoffman
A few weeks back I did a post on my blog about creating Firefox quick search bookmarks. I was surprised at how well received it was, though I think people were most pleased with the fact that I had created a download of a very small selection of the large list of SEO related Firefox quick searches that I use.
If you've ever seen me do a site review, you'd know I appear lost without my laptop, which contains all of my quick searches. Since the small list of general SEO ones I previously published was well received, I figured I would create a download of some of the ones I find to be [...]
Filed in: Link Building: General, Link Week, Search Features: Commands
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