Aug 31

August is holiday season in both Southern Europe and North America, which means that search engine news traffic slows down. Next week, however, we should be back to normal.
One of the most important news this week is probably Google’s implementation of Google Suggest on English language sites. Google will now suggest alternative search phrases as you type. This is not a Google invention, however. Ask and Yahoo! have implemented this feature a long time ago.
Another important milestone is Yahoo! abandoning Mash, its attempt at developing a social web site (after its Yahoo! 360 failure).
Given that Yahoo! did not manage to buy Facebook, this means that Yahoo! is unable to compete in this arena. This is a serious issue for a company which normally is very good at content production.
(Truth to be told, Google isn’t very good at this, either. Google’s Orkut is big in Brazil, but not elsewhere compared [...]

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Aug 31

Google adds search suggestions to search results, generating a list of alternative search queries.
Google has added a new feature to the Google home page and other search pages. As soon as you start typing a search query, Google will open a small pull down menu directly under the search form with a list of alternative search queries based on the letters you type. The list changes as you type.
Behind each suggestion Google adds the number of search results for that particular query. Don’t put too much trust in that number, but it gives you an idea of the relative size of the amount of information available.
It is similar to the “Did you mean?” feature Google has had on the search result pages, the main difference being that Google Suggest is generated in real time.
The point is to help searchers formulate queries with more keywords — queries that are [...]

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Aug 31

I see a lot of new search products on a daily basis. One of the things I don’t see often, though, is real improvements to the presentation of search result. Jamesoo is a news search engine with an innovative results page: The news stories that match your query are presented in newspaper layout.
Jamesoo was launched this month. It searches RSS feeds, which should make for fresh news and a brand new, relevant “newspaper” on the subject of your choice, whenever you want it. A great idea.
How does it work?
When you do a search on Jamesoo, a “newspaper” is compiled for you: You can page through news from the last seven days with headlines, teasers and images much like a regular news paper. The pages are easy to scan and the design is relatively uncluttered.

Clicking the headline brings you to the entire story on its original page. Another link below [...]

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Aug 26

Del.izzy is a search engine that supplements the search options available at Delicious. I use Delicious every day and for a lot of bookmarks and I am always looking out for ways to extract useful information from my treasure trove of bookmarks.
Del.icio.us is a great service, but their search options leave something to be desired. When you search through your bookmarks, you are only searching through tags, titles and descriptions, not the page content.
Del.izzy is a simple, web based search tool that lets you search through all content, including title, description and page content, for all your bookmarks. It works fast and you can choose how many search results you want displayed.
Del.izzy is still in beta and it is clear that they haven’t spent big money on sleek web design, widgets and other Web 2.0 stuff. But it works well and meets a real need.

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Aug 24

Here are some of the search related articles we have found interesting lately:

Google Offers Up Gears Geolocation API To Make Web Sites Location Aware
Google thinks it would be valuable to have any Web site you visit — whether on your phone or PC — know where you are. (Information Week Aug 22 2008)

Google’s speech-to-text technology is huge search advance
A new speech-to-text technology from Google in which you type in a word or a phrase and it searches through YouTube videos to find all the instances where someone said it. (Stamford Times undated Aug 2008)

Survey Says: Google Leads In Consumer Satisfaction
dAge.com reports that Google not only is leading in the University of Michigan and ForeSee Results in American Consumer Satisfaction Index, but is also “surging” in growth. (SE Land Aug 19 2008)

Google Launches Enhanced 404 Widget
Google has launched a new tool within Google Webmaster Tools that allows Webmasters to create custom [...]

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Aug 24

I do most of my work on Macs and most of my surfing I do in Firefox. One of the main reasons I use Firefox is that with its huge choice of add-ons it is highly customisable. But there are some valueble add-ons for Safari as well, for instance Inquisitor, a search plug-in.
How it works
Inquisitor replaces the current search bar functionality in Safari with a search drop down menu.
According to David Watanabe, who developed Inquisitor, it is like Spotlight for the web: Start typing and websites pop up immediately, along with suggestions to refine your search. Click on a suggestion for a refined search and by default a page with Yahoo search results will open. (Spotlight is the search engine included in the MacOS.)

Inquisitor will auto complete your words. You can add more search engines with customized keyboard shortcuts.
Inquisitor supports eight languages beyond English: Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, [...]

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Aug 24

Phil Bradley presents various online automatic tools for ascertaining the monetary value of web sites over at his blog.
The tools try to determine the value of domains or web sites by combining information like back links, the age of the domain name, Alexa ranking etc.
It is a long time since we tested them, and we were of course eager to know whether we can sell Pandia and retire to the Bahamas.
Smart PageRank told us that Pandia is worth US$ 1,330. This is, to put it bluntly, very disappointing.
Cubestat has a slightly more positive view of our site’s commercial potential: US$ 26,293.
We choose to believe that dnScoop is the most accurate of the three, simply because it values our site at US$ 143,704! Now we are talking!

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Aug 24

Find out what’s on US TV by searching Ask.
Not all search engine improvements have to be groundbreaking. Several baby steps may ultimately become a large step for mankind…
Well, let’s not get carried away here.
It is a fact, though, that Ask has not yet given up the attempt at attracting new users through innovation. That’s a good thing, as big companies like Google and Yahoo! need competition to keep on innovating themselves.
Ask already has the best search result page layout on the planet. Now they have added separate TV program listings to the search results.
In the Ask blog they say that:

Our Ask TV listings uses our patent-pending technology DADS (Direct Answers from Databases) to answer queries and questions from structured data feeds and databases. DADS provides highly accurate answers to queries which are relevant to a given topic. Instead of using traditional keyword search algorithms, our technology can [...]

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Aug 15

Greg Notess reports in Online that Yahoo! no longer has full support for Boolean.
Boolean is a search syntax used for composing more complex queries in search engines. (See out Goalgetter tutorial for an introduction).
Now the NOT operator is gone in Yahoo!, and searchers will have to stick to the “search engine math” operator to achieve the same effect. Put a minus-sign directly in front of a term that you want excluded from search result (meaning that Yahoo! will exclude pages that has that term in their text).
Yahoo! has also dropped support for the AND operator. This is not equally serious, as Yahoo! will do an AND search by default.
The OR operator still works, but nesting with parentheses fails.
Yahoo! has apparently come to the conclusion that since so few uses Boolean anyway, they may as well not support it. That is a mistake. Power-users like librarians, journalists and researchers [...]

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Aug 12

I use every opportunity I get to talk about all the data available at bookmarking sites like Delicious and I often wonder why more search tools don’t utilize this wealth of information.
InSuggest is a Swedish company specializing in personalized web recommendations. This summer they launched a service based on Delicious.
InSuggest has had a service for recommending web sites based on URLs you provide. They also have a similar service for suggesting images. Their new tool doesn’t require you to type in URLs to get recommendations. All you have to do is add your Delicious user name.
InSuggest loads your bookmarks in one column, your tags in another and list recommendations in a third.
The recommended sites are represented by a thumbnail, a title, a URL and some tags. The interface is easy to navigate and it looks sleek and cool.
If, like me, you have a large number of bookmarks [...]

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