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The Register reviews the pros and cons of Turbo10.com, still in beta, which unfortunately seems to have crashed due to the traffic generated by this new-found recognition? Not an auspicious start, but check-in on the site when it reappears, as one of the major incentives to do so is its focus on searching the invisible …
In Search Privacy: An Issue?, Part 2, Danny Sullivan evaluates the privacy policies and associated data mining applications of Yahoo and Google. Part 1 of this article is here.
An update to my April 23 posting on the Summit on Web Credibility – Here is a link to edited transcripts of presentations made at the conference, wherein Experts Discuss Paid vs. ‘Pure’ Search Results. Said experts are from Hewlett-Packard, Google, Overture, ConsumerReports.org and Consumer WebWatch.
Search Privacy: An Issue?, Part 1 Danny Sullivan details Google’s privacy and data collection policies.
According to Dan Gillmor, “Google co-founder Sergey Brin said there were no plans to segregate weblog content from the main search engine results.”
From Microdac News, several recommendations for directories and glossaries of search engine terms, including Search Engine Directory (free) and the Search Engine Yearbook ($$).
Blawg Search, in beta, allowers users to view and search postings (listed as “top stories” and “new stories”) from 68 (as of this afternoon) legal blogs, including beSpacific. The site also indicates when the page was refreshed. With cookies activated, users may list preferences for content that includes number of results, sorting results by relevance …
From the French company indicateur.com, a searchable directory called Google’World, “To find easily and quickly any type of information about the world according to Google.” See this review for more information.
How Regional Is Google News? documents the sources and overlapping content as well as accompanying photos provided on the newly released Google international news services for Canada, the UK, India and New Zealand. And not that this should come as a surprise, but in related news, Search engine ratings: Google 55.2 percent global usage share …
From the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications, which took place April 28-30, this link to the abstract (full-text available for purchase) of The Effects of Search Engines and Query Operators on Top Ranked Results, in which the authors “examine whether the use of query operators changes the documents retrieved by three …
See Google Branches Out Again with Overseas News, Google News comes to UK, and via Research Buzz, with cascading attribution as follows: “A tip of the hat to Microdoc for announcing that Google’s got a new international version of their news search at http://news.google.com.au. (The Microdoc story is at http://tinyurl.com/bj8y) A tip of the hat …
This commentary, Search Engines Make Us Dumb, no doubt reflects the perspective of many seasoned online (pre-Web) researchers. There is a steadily growing reliance, among consumers and professionals in many communities, on search engines (or just Google for that matter) as the penultimate tool to search, locate, and analyze data which is then disseminated as …
