This day in search marketing history: March 21
No more rel=next/prev support on Google, plus: CTR patent, neural matching versus RankBrain, Google wins KinderStart case and more.
Topic: Exalead
Up Close With Google’s Search By Image: Hits, Misses & More
Earlier this week at its Inside Search event, Google announced a new way to search the web called Search By Image. Rather than enter a text query, Search By Image lets you begin your search with an image and Google will (try to) tell you what it is and show visually similar images. Search By […]
Yahoo Site Explorer: What’s The Status Of the Link Data?
Earlier this week, site owners noticed that substantial Yahoo Site Explorer link data seemed to be missing. A glitch? Gone for good? The first signs of integration into Bing webmaster tools? I talked to Yahoo and got at least some initial answers. Many site owners regularly use Site Explorer for information on external links to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 28, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Starting To Manage Its Cash Mountain More Aggressively Google now has roughly $26 billion in cash on hand. That mountain of money has apparently been getting very conservative returns according […]
What Site Owners, Web Developers & SEOs Should Know About The Yahoo Microsoft Deal
By now, everyone has read all about the news that Yahoo is replacing its search index with Microsoft’s Bing. In a way, it’s a great story of complete reversal, as in 2002, Microsoft didn’t have its own index and instead used Inktomi. Late that year, Yahoo! acquired Inktomi, which spurred Microsoft to start building its […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 5, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google AdWords Opens Up Trademarked Bidding To Most Countries BrandVerity tipped me off to news that Google has modified their AdWords trademark policy to allows bidding on trademarked terms in 190 […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 22, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Cuil Launches — Can This Search Start-Up Really Best Google?
Can any start-up search engine “be the next Google?” Many have wondered this, and today’s launch of Cuil (pronounced “cool”) may provide the best test case since Google itself overtook more established search engines. Cuil provides what appears to be a comprehensive index of the web, offers a unique display presentation, and emerges at a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 29, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 13, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
ACAP Launches, Robots.txt 2.0 For Blocking Search Engines?
After a year of discussions, ACAP — Automated Content Access Protocol — was released today as a sort of robots.txt 2.0 system for telling search engines what they can or can’t include in their listings. However, none of the major search engines support ACAP, and its future remains firmly one of "watch and see." Below, […]
Google, Yahoo, Ask.com Do Halloween Logos & Themes
Google doesn’t always do special logos for every holiday, but in the case of Halloween, it’s pretty consistent. Up today on the Google home page is the ninth consecutive Halloween logo it has run since 1999. Below, a look back at the past years, as well as this year’s animated logo from Yahoo and a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 20, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Exalead Teams With Directory Assistance Provider To Offer Voice-Powered Mobile Search In France
Gary Price at ResourceShelf alerted us to the fact that enhanced directory assistance provider 118 218 in France is now offering a much broader service using content and results from search engine Exalead. In principle, this is comparable to enhanced directory assistance/mobile voice search services being offered in the US by Tellme, 1-800-YellowPages, Jingle Networks […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 19, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 13, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 9, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 21, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 11, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 8, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Exalead Adds Image Search, Facial Recognition Capabilities
Exalead, a search engine that’s popular among librarians and information professionals thanks to its array of advanced search capabilities, has added an image search function for more than 1 billion images on the web. Included in the image search tool is the ability to drill down on human faces, thanks to integration of LTU Technologies’ […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 4, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
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 rather more detail. The more […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 27, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Search Funnies: The April Fool’s 2007 Roundup
April Fools Day was yesterday, and the search engines along with others in the search world, went all out. Here is a roundup of the different pranks played.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 21, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Q&A With François Bourdoncle, CEO Of Exalead
Exalead is one of those great search engines that most people haven’t heard of. And that’s a shame, because it offers some really powerful and unique features that most information professionals love. Exalead is also the name of an enterprise search company, co-founded by today’s Q&A participant, François Bourdoncle. Working on web technologies from the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 19, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 8, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 21, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Germany Leaves Quaero To France, To Start Theseus Search Project
Threadwatch points to a PC Advisor report that the euro search engine project Quaero between France and Germany is now being split up. France will continue developing Quaero to help counter American-based search giants like Google and Yahoo. Germany is to start their own search technology project called Theseus. The German Federal Ministry of Economics […]
Search Patents Filings from 12-20-06 – Reranking on Information Redundancy and on Searcher Affinities
Some processes covered in patents granted last week by the US Patent and Trademark Office: Microsoft reranking results based upon redundancy of information, Ask reranking pages based upon affinities between searchers, Hewlett-Packard creating queries for searchers to investigate from scanned documents, and; Exalead forming dynamic query refinements from words found in documents located within search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 19, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google In Russia & Europe: The International Challenge
Two articles out today highlight Google’s not all powerful in every market. In Russia and some other countries, Google is fighting to gain share. New to Russia, Google Struggles to Find Its Footing from the New York Times shows that Google is number eight in Russia, where Yandex leads the pack, followed by Rambler. The […]