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DailyCandy
June 29, 2005 |
Pop the Question An electronic version of Twenty Questions dares you to think of anything and then guesses it in twenty questions or fewer.   |
PC Magazine
May 17, 2006 |
Bits & Bites v25n10 Google has recently been granted a patent for a voice interface for search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
January 26, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Searching For a Better Image Ask Jeeves has launched a brand-new image search service, using some innovative techniques to identify high-quality pictures on the web. See how it stacks up against the competition. |
Search Engine Watch
April 28, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Exploring Search Engine Overlap A new comparison tool shows that the major search engines have surprisingly little overlap, even for popular search terms. |
InternetNews
February 28, 2005
Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
Search Engine Watch
April 11, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Searcher Behavior Research Update Two new studies examining how people search show that internet users are becoming more discriminating, with important implications for search marketers. |
ONLINE
November 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Freshness Issue and Complexities with Web Search Engines Understanding the currentness (or freshness) patterns of the search engines' databases helps the searcher to better understand the results and what might not be found... |
Search Engine Watch
January 24, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Survey: Searchers are Confident, Satisfied & Clueless The vast majority of searchers say they are confident about their searching skills and are successful at finding what they're looking for far more often than not, yet most don't understand how search engines work or present results. |
Search Engine Watch
May 26, 2005
Sherman & Price |
Ask Jeeves Serves Up New Features Ask Jeeves is rolling out two new enhancements today that help searchers quickly focus queries and get direct answers to questions without using complex commands or advanced search tools. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge A new study suggests that the overlap between search engine results is less than it was even a few months ago, and that the voices of each engine are growing even more unique. |
Search Engine Watch
December 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
In Search Of The Relevancy Figure Where are the relevancy figures? While relevancy is the most important "feature" a search engine can offer, there sadly remains no widely-accepted measure of how relevant the different search engines are. Turning relevancy into an easily digested figure is a huge, but necessary, challenge. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Google Reveals Its New "RankBrain" Artificial Intelligence System Google has just gone public with the details of a new artificial intelligence called RankBrain, which the search giant is using to handle difficult queries. |
Wired
June 26, 2007
Annalee Newitz |
Looking High and Low: Who Will Be the Google of Video Search? The Web has gone wacky for video. The problem is search engines can't index video files as easily as text. So the race is on to become the Google of video search. And guess what? It might not be Google |
InternetNews
August 2, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Dogpile: Search Engines Don't Have Much in Common Users of the meta-search service can now see results from MSN Search in addition to results from Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. As part of its announcement, Dogpile demonstrated the diversity of results across the engines. |
Information Today
June 2002
Donald T. Hawkins |
The Search Engine Meeting 2002 For anyone interested in search engines, this annual meeting is a major event on the conference calendar and should not be missed. The quality of the presentations is very high, as is the content... |
Information Today
November 21, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest IBM introduces public image monitoring solution... Quintura Search 1.0 makes its debut... Teragram offers direct answers to enterprises... |
Search Engine Watch
September 14, 2004
Heather Lloyd-Martin |
Delving Deep Inside the Searcher's Mind Industry experts from Enquiro, Vividence, iProspect and Google asked searchers, "What are you thinking?" Their research unearthed some surprising results that will help site owners better understand their customers. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2005
DeWitt Clinton |
The Art of Effective Web Searching There are specific things that we can do to unlock the secrets buried beneath the search command line. Here are six advanced search techniques that will help you find the best results faster. |
Search Engine Watch
February 23, 2004
Chris Sherman |
A Fun Multi-Search Tool Queryster lets you quickly get results from ten different search engines, simply by clicking an icon. It's a great way to compare the different 'personalities' of search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
September 22, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Myriad Search: Meta Search Your Way A new meta search engine lets Internet marketers and others compare results from the four top web search engines, and tweak their relative importance in a cutomized result set. |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Searches On Google? Many webmasters have found that recent changes at Google have hurt them. But does all the hue and cry over Google's recent algorithm change have any impact on searchers? There are some developments worth noting, and this article takes a Q&A approach to examine them. |
Searcher
October 2001
Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines... |
ONLINE
May 2000
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Up and Coming Search Technologies Search technology is big business on the Net. The most highly visited sites often started off by helping people find something on the Web.... |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2007
Eric Enge |
Are Vertical Search Engines the Answer to Relevance? Even the most advanced general search algorithm can be scuttled by ambiguous searches, but vertical search engines are increasingly offering a solution to the problem. |
Search Engine Watch
February 7, 2007
Eric Enge |
Think Like a Search Engineer Knowing when you are taking risks, or making the decision to avoid them, can help scale your search engine marketing strategy to new heights. |
Search Engine Watch
May 12, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Dogpile Enhances Meta Search, Offers Comparison Tools Dogpile has redesigned its meta search site and introduced a nifty new utility that visually displays the overlap (or lack thereof) of results from the multiple search engines it queries. |
Bank Technology News
April 2001
John Hackett |
Computers Are Learning The Business Advances in computer processing power open the way for wider use of so-called artificial intelligence, at the same time that the self-serve aspect of online processes has increased the need for systems that "think"... |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Site On Google? The outcry from webmasters about Google's recent ranking algorithm change has been unprecedented. This article takes a Q&A-style approach to examine many of the issues and questions that have arisen from the change. |
ONLINE
May 2000
Chris Sherman |
The Future Revisited: What's New with Web Search Some thoughts on what the future of web searching may hold... |
Searcher
March 2003
Stephen E. Arnold |
In Search of the Good Search: The Invisible Elephant Search remains a challenging human-computer issue. |
Search Engine Watch
April 4, 2000 |
Search Satisfaction And Behavior Results Released Every three months, some users at the major search engines are selected randomly by NPD and asked about their visits. The results are fascinating, but they've not been available to the general public until now.
The survey is funded and conducted on behalf of the major search engines, and the results have been used for their own internal purposes.... |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Search Engine Prefixes and Shortcuts An online searcher offers tips and practical advice on efficient and effective online searching using shortcuts and prefixes. |
Technology Research News
September 5, 2005 |
Finding Information on the 'Net Although the reach of today's search engines seems impressive, collectively they have indexed only about half of all publicly available Web pages. Here are ways to garner more information from the Web. |
Search Engine Watch
November 1, 1999 |
Who's The Biggest Of Them All? AltaVista is now claiming to have the largest index of the web, at 250 million pages. But is its claim true? Does the service deserve the title of biggest? Probably -- or certainly it and FAST Search share the title. But it's not possible to say so definitively. |
Macworld
April 19, 2006
Lee Sherman |
DEVONagent 2.0 Aimed at casual Web surfers and serious researchers alike, DEVONagent 2.0 begins where Google leaves off. And you don't have to be a scientist to use it. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb claims it has increased the size of its database to over 2 billion fully indexed Web pages... AltaVista now really defaults to a Boolean AND... Ask Jeeves has a new, simpler design... Google has been promoting its fee-based Google Answers... etc. |
InternetNews
November 12, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Fights for Google Search Share MSN Search is the latest entrant in a crowded market. Can it stand up to the competition? |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2002
Marydee Ojala |
Search Soirees I am constantly struck by the difference between what people can do with search engines and what they actually do. It boils down to this: advanced search engine features go largely unused... |
Search Engine Watch
April 8, 2009
Eric Enge |
Operating Web Sites in Multiple Countries Setting up Web sites for multiple countries is a common problem for multinational businesses that want to have separate sites for each country where they do business. There's a real risk that the search engines will see them as duplicate content. |
Search Engine Watch
October 31, 2007
Steve Haar |
Search Quality Depends on Intention From a marketing perspective, we should try to keep in touch with the environments in which our ads and SEO efforts are seen by the users. |
Search Engine Watch
September 21, 2006
Shari Thurow |
Do Patents Point to SEO Gold? Do patents, white papers, and other publications authored by search engine employees provide clear guidance to how to optimize Web pages? A panel of experts debated the issue at a recent Search Engine Strategies conference. |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2009
Carrie Hill |
Users and Search Engines Want the Same Things Optimizing your site for users is just as important as optimizing your site for search engines. While those are two very different things, you can often serve both audiences by being smart with your Web site development. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2006
Menczer et al. |
Googlearchy or Googlocracy? While search engines do not make for a level playing field, their use partially mitigates the rich-get-richer nature of the Web, giving new sites an increased chance of being discovered, as long as they are about specific topics that match the interests of users. |
Searcher
January 2007
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Help! How do you move commercial Internet organizations to improve what's being offered for free? |
PC Magazine
March 31, 2004
John C. Dvorak |
Search Engine Mania Since Google is making money and is expected to bring in big bucks in a midyear IPO, suddenly search engines are the next big thing. |
Search Engine Watch
August 3, 2005
Marcela De Vivo |
Coping with Search Engine Penalties Search engine penalties are present and pervasive, and are a primary method used by search engines to control webmasters. Unless webmasters understand what they are and what to do about them, their websites could easily trigger a penalty, losing traffic and revenue. |
Search Engine Watch
November 23, 2005
Christine Churchill |
Understanding Search Engine Patents Search related patents provide insight into what's going on in search engine algorithms, and search marketers who understand these 'rules of ranking' are better positioned to win top position in search results. |
Search Engine Watch
January 5, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Search Resolutions for the New Year Now's an ideal time to reflect on your searching habits and ring in some changes that will make you a more effective searcher in the year to come. |
Search Engine Watch
March 23, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Writing for Search Engines In Successful Search Engine Copywriting, Heather Lloyd-Martin offers a comprehensive guide to creating search-friendly web pages that also satisfy the information needs of human users. |
PC World
September 1, 2000
Kim Zetter & Harry McCracken |
How to Stop Searching and Start Finding Tired of wading through useless search-engine results? We test 20 engines to pinpoint the ones that really deliver the goods.... |
