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“Simply Hired and Indeed, upstarts less than a year old, are getting attention for their Google-like approach to helping people find jobs. They do for job listings what Google does for general information — crawl or “scrape” listings from thousands of sites and create a free, searchable index in one spot.” [Link] Duo’s search engine …
From the Yahoo! Search Blog, details about new features launched last night on Yahoo! Local: “..city pages…built for every city, neighborhood, and zip across the US of A…highlight upcoming events, top user recommendations for restaurants and other favorite local spots — all neatly plotted on a map of your city or neighborhood…other upgrades [include] comprehensive …
Following up on my August 9, 2005 posting, Yahoo Claims Larger Search Engine Index Than Google, see this new survey challenging Yahoo’s claim: A Comparison of the Size of the Yahoo! and Google Indices, by Matthew Cheney, Mike Perry, and Dr. Orville Vernon Burton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Center for Supercomputing …
Posted late last night by Adam M. Smith, Google Print Product Manager, on the Google Blog: “As with many ambitious ideas, Google Print has sparked a healthy amount of discussion…Today I’d like to mention two new features that reflect these discussions and which we feel will considerably improve both programs. If you’re in the Publisher …
“If search engines were truly intelligent, you could just pose a question the same way you would ask a person. An alternative is to get the search engine to ‘fill in the blank.’ So instead of asking [who invented the parachute?], you can enter the query [the parachute was invented by *]. (The blank, or …
Yahoo! Everything: Links to all the services and specialty sites Yahoo offers.” The A to Z index includes links to a range of topic specific engines (such as finance, news, health…), as well as to shopping, entertainment and communications services.
Yahoo! and Google will no doubt continue to disagree on whose search index is the largest, but a key issue remains that researchers are interested in this issue as it pertains to reliable, comprehensive, accessible, and current content, as opposed to ad revenues.
The first excerpt from John Battelle’s new book, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, is available on his blog.
Different Engines, Different Results – Web Searchers Not Always Finding What They’re Looking For Online (30 pages, PDF), a research study by DogPile.com in collaboration with researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Pennsylvania State University [Press release]. Executive Summary (1 page, PDF)
“With over 50 M audio files available, Yahoo! Audio Search is the most comprehensive audio search product on the Web. Now you can find, learn about and listen to a diverse selection of audio spanning popular and hard to find music, interviews, speeches, newscasts, podcasts, and even sound effects.” [FAQ] From the Yahoo! Search Blog, …
Excerpt from John Battelle’s forthcoming book, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture.
A new article from the 8/15/05 issue of Forbes, Google Isn’t Everything, serves as a useful reminder that public libraries throughout the country offer users access to a vast range of online subscription services, absolutely free. While Yahoo is beta testing a service that permits users to locate news, articles and other resources from selected …
