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“Google introduced a new advanced search feature that enables users to search not only for a particular keyword, but also for its synonyms. This is accomplished by placing a ~ character directly in front of the keyword in the search box. For example, to search for browser help as well as browser guides and tutorials …
Google targeted by search engine rivals: “The steady growth has turned Google into one of the Internet’s biggest success stories, and made the still relatively small company of 1,000 employees a target for some formidable foes. Both Yahoo! and Microsoft are searching for ways to steal Google’s thunder in a showdown that could reshape the …
“Computer hackers have adopted a startling strategy in their attempts to break into websites. By using the popular search engine Google, they do not have to visit a site to plan an attack. Instead, they can get all the information they need from Google’s cached versions of web pages, say experts in the US.” (link …
From ComputerWorld: “Microsoft Corp. is beefing up its MSN search engine to go head-to-head with Google Inc., but at the same time, it says it has no immediate plans to cancel its agreement for paid search listings with Overture Services Inc., which was recently bought by MSN rival Yahoo Inc.”
Fast AlltheWeb Q-card, and AllTheWeb Query prefixes: “AlltheWeb supports a number of simple Query Prefixes that allow you to access some basic site functions by simply prefixing your query term(s) with a supported prefix.”
See Google Advanced News Search, and this related News.com article.
Interview with Krishna Bharat, the Google Principal Scientist who conceived the idea for Google News.
From Slate, Digging for Googleholes, ends with the following paragraph: “Were wrong to think of Google as a pure reference source. Its closer to a collectively authored op-ed page filled with bias, polemics, and a skewed sense of proportion than an encyclopedia. Its still the connected worlds most dazzling place to visit, a …
Yahoo will pay $1.63 billion for Overture. Yahoo! Reports Second Quarter 2003 Financial Results (PDF), Company Posts Second Quarter Operating Income of $63 Million, Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization of $97 Million With One Sweep, Yahoo Regains Search Engine Dominance Why Google Should Be Worried
Search engine personalization: An exploratory study. From the abstract: “Findings show that: (1) eight (13 percent) of the 60 search engines, including Yahoo, AOL, Lycos, Excite and Netscape, enabled some level of personalization; and, (2) personalization features are largely related to e-mail, business and financial information, searching of a reference tool, such as yellow pages, …
From News.com: “Through a caching feature on the popular Google search site, people can sometimes call up snapshots of archived stories at NYTimes.com and other registration-only sites. The practice has proved a boon for readers hoping to track down Web pages that are no longer accessible at the original source, for whatever reason. But the …
From News.com: Search engines’ display of miniature images is fair use under copyright law, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, but the legality of presenting full-size renditions of visual works is yet to be determined. Opinion and Order from the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, Leslie A. Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation (now known …
