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Press release: “NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco are partnering to scan, archive and manage the agency’s vast collection of photographs, historic film and video. The imagery will be available through the Internet and free to the public, historians, scholars, students, and researchers. Currently, NASA has more than 20 major imagery collections online. With …
Press release: “Google today announced the launch of Sky, a new feature that enables users of Google Earth to view the sky as seen from planet Earth. With Sky, users can now float through the skies via Google Earth. This easy-to-use tool enables all Earth users to view and navigate through 100 million individual stars …
Google Lat Long Blog: “…the Google Book Search and Google Earth teams are excited to announce the next step: a new layer in Earth that allows you to explore locations through the lens of the world’s books. Now when you turn on the “Google Book Search” layer in Google Earth (found in the “Featured Content” …
Technology Review – Searching for Humans – Various websites are trying to make it easier to find friends and colleagues online: “Jaideep Singh, cofounder of the new people-search engine Spock, says he wants to build a profile for every person in the world. To do this, he plans to combine the power of search algorithms …
“About the Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center – The relationship between Google and AdWords advertisers is built on trust. Advertisers rely on the relevance of our ad placement, our reporting statistics, and the quality of the clicks their ads receive. We take this trust seriously, and we know that AdWords couldn’t exist without it.”
American Customer Satisfaction Index, Scores By Industry, Internet Portals/Search Engines, 2007, Commentary by Professor Claes Fornell, The Donald C. Cook Professor of Business Administration, Director, National Quality Research Center, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan: “Yahoo! has also improved. It has always had more users than Google and now it leads in …
Press release: “In a trend that could substantially benefit Internet users, the largest Internet search companies are beginning to aggressively compete with one another to offer stronger privacy protections, according to a report published today by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). Until recently, most of the major Internet search engines kept detailed — …
Press release: “Cornell University Library is partnering with Google Inc. to digitize materials from its superb collections and make them available online…Google will digitize up to 500,000 works from Cornell University Library and make them available online using Google Book Search. As a result, materials from the librarys exceptional collections will be easily accessible to …
“Google is always experimenting with new features aimed at improving the search experience.” Currently available tools as follows: Timeline and map views: “See results on a timeline or map. With the timeline and map views, Googles technology extracts key dates and locations from select search results so you can view the information in a different …
Via SEO by the Sea: “A paper from Google researchers on Question Answering, Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval (pdf), looks at automated strategies for understanding and answering questions that people might type into a search box.”
Press release: “Ask.com(R), a leading search engine and wholly-owned business of IAC, today announced it will soon be implementing a new product called AskEraser that will offer its searchers unmatched control over their privacy when searching for information on the Web. With AskEraser, people can ensure that their search history will not be retained by …
Press release: “Today Google officially released a new feature of Google Maps that enables users to layer valuable third-party information directly on Google Maps with a single click and to save these customized maps to their personal library. These mini-applications, called Mapplets, make it possible for users to view and layer maps containing information such …
