Ask Jeeves Chosen for Another Gov't Portal
The newly redesigned District of Columbia portal has implemented JeevesOne’s natural language search. See also this FCW review of the site’s new features, cost and user community.
Category «Search Engines»
A Flurry of Google PR
Google: An engine of change; Inside Google; Google CEO Has No Near Term Plans for IPO; and All Eyes on Google.
Updated Search Engine Resource
See Search Engines by Search Features by Greg Notess for a useful comparison of search engines according to their specific features (Boolean Capabilities and Constraints, Proximity, Truncation & Stemming, Case Sensitivity, Field searching, Limits and more).
Google Search Tip
From Microdoc News, this useful recommendation on improving your search results using Google. “If you can find a sentence in the Google database which you have just lifted from a website, you can find information you are looking for by writing a sentence in which the information you are seeking may be embedded.”
Corporations Leverage Search Technologies
Interesting article from News.com that highlights how Ford Motor Company leveraged the technology of Ask Jeeves to analyze, design and implement more effective website features in response to consumer concerns during the Firestone tire recall, and thereafter.
RSS: An Alternative to Search Engines?
Danny Sullivan presents Part II of his review of RSS services and applications that facilitate access to the continuously expanding world of news, blogs and topical information. He recommends several RSS search engines, including Feedster and rssSearch. Part I of his article is available here and lists examples of news aggregators and how to use …
Google Makes Major Acquisition
Google is onboard the money train with their acquisition of Applied Semantics, “a company that makes software that analyzes the content of Web sites in order to match them with appropriate advertising,” according to this Reuter’s story. See the Google press release here, which states, “Applied Semantics’ products and engineering team will strengthen Google’s search …
Competition Heats Up Among Top Search Engines
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a brief comparison, in chart format, of some of the best features of the free services from Google, AOL, MSN, Yahoo, as well as the fee-based software, Grokker. The article also addresses the increasingly prominent relationship between search results and paid advertising.
Google Hacks Book A Hit on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Google Hacks by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest is given a big thumbs up by Lee Dembart in the International Herald Tribune. He also points out that Tara’s steady stream of updates and resources on Google applications are available through her terrific Research Buzz site, and additional resources, since the book’s publication, are here.
Ask Jeeves Launches New Search Features
Ask Jeeves Inc., seeking to move out of the number two search engine position, today launched the new Ask Jeeves’ “Smart Search” features that facilitate more effective searches “by helping narrow, broaden or more directly answer user queries.” This announcement describes the new features and tools now available: Jeeves is now 50% faster. The cleaner …
Meta Search Engine Results and Paid Placement
From Consumer WebWatch: Meta-search Sites Compile Results But Don’t Always Tell You Who’s Paying for Placement.
AllTheWeb Adds Dictionary Lookup Feature
“AlltheWeb now links each query term and phrase to a dictionary lookup on dictionary.com.” See their news update page for additional information.
