Yahoo Gives Inquisitor, Mac Browser Plugin, First Upgrade

Aug 13, 2008 at 11:38am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Yahoo Search Blog announced that they have released a new version of my favorite search browser plugin named Inquisitor. The upgrade makes the Apple Safari search plugin faster, cleaner, and multi-lingual. By faster, Yahoo has integrated Inquisitor with BOSS, enabling a faster return on your Yahoo queries. Yahoo has cleaned up both the Inquisitor home page and the client to be simpler and more streamlined. Finally, Yahoo has expanded the language support to Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German. Here is a screen shot of the new client [...]

Filed in: Search Features: Query Refinement, Search Features: Search History & Personalization, Toolbars & Add-Ons, Yahoo: Search

Google Expands Edit My Search Results Feature?

Jul 15, 2008 at 8:28am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Google Like/Don't Like feature, where you can move up results, hide search results, or remove search results, seems to have been expanded to a group of test searchers. We have reports from TechCrunch, Google Operating System, and Justin Hileman, with reports of users seeing this feature in the main search results. Justin does an excellent job taking us through each feature with screen shots. I personally have never seen an implementation of this on any of my searches. But I know Google has been testing this over the course of the year. [...]

Filed in: Google: Labs, Google: Personalized Search, Google: User Interface, Google: Web History & Search History, Google: Web Search, Search Engines: Experimental, Search Engines: Personalized Search Engines, Search Features: Search History & Personalization

Yahoo Buys My Favorite Search Browser Plugin, Inquisitor For Apple Safari

May 9, 2008 at 11:00am ET by Barry Schwartz

Yahoo has acquired my favorite search browser plugin for Apple Safari, Inquisitor. Inquisitor is an extremely useful search refinement and search aid tool for the Apple browser market. Inquisitor offers autocomplete, refinements, suggestions, and also allows you to add any search engine you like, plus create your own personalized and advanced query operators, much like OpenSearch. I spoke with Ariel Seidman, the director of product management for this product, and he answered a number of questions I had about the acquisition. David Watanabe is the developer behind Inquisitor, and he is al [...]

Filed in: Search Features: Query Refinement, Search Features: Search History & Personalization, Toolbars & Add-Ons, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Search

Google Like/Don’t Like: Move Results Up, Hide Them Or Suggest Your Own

Nov 29, 2007 at 9:25am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google has rolled out a new experimental feature that allows anyone to alter search results in the way they like. You can move good results higher, hide ones you think are bad and suggest your own. Google was spotted testing this feature with selected users back in August and September, and then Googlified spotted it going live this week for anyone to use. As you can see from the screen capture below, this new feature enables users to vote up a search result or completely remove a search result from the index. Clicking the up arrow will promote the search result to the top spot for that ke [...]

Filed in: Google: Labs, Google: Personalized Search, Google: User Interface, Google: Web History & Search History, Google: Web Search, Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Search Features: Search History & Personalization

How Microsoft’s Behavioral Targeting Works

Dec 26, 2006 at 9:02am ET by Barry Schwartz

Microsoft Ad Push Is All About You at the Wall Street Journal has a nice overview of how Microsoft's behavioral targeting ad software works, nothing ground breaking, but a nice overview. I'll quote a piece of the article for you: Here's how it works: If someone types in "compare car prices" on Live Search, Microsoft's computers note that the person is probably considering buying a vehicle. The computers then check with the list of Hotmail accounts to see if they have any information on the person. If they do, and an auto maker has paid Microsoft to target this type of person, the computer wi [...]

Filed in: Legal: Privacy, Microsoft: adCenter, Search Ads: Behavioral Targeting, Search Features: Search History & Personalization

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