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PC Magazine
October 21, 2005 |
Share and Play Tag on the New Web Playground Somewhere between Web and desktop search engines lies a new breed of "community" search engines: Clipmarks... del.icio.us... Jeteye... Shadows... My Web 2.0...   |
Search Engine Watch
July 26, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Diigo Offers "Social Annotation" Tool Combining bookmarks with sharing, tagging, annotation and very powerful search tools, Diigo is an appealing, evolutionary step forward in how we find, consume and share information 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. |
AskMen.com
January 31, 2001
Justin Becker |
How To: Use Search Engines Well, no need to feel lost anymore -- here is a map of which search engines I highly recommend, and which ones to use for specific searches. And since information is power, you'll feel like king of the world in no time... |
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... |
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. |
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.... |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2002
Killmer & Koppel |
So Much Information, So Little Time Evaluating web resources with search engines |
InternetNews
August 9, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Doing a Vertical Search Search engine marketers grapple with the proliferation of alternative search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
October 5, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Introduces Personal Search Yahoo has enhanced its My Yahoo service with personalization features including search history, the ability to save pages to a 'personal web' and block URLs from appearing in search results. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2006
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Tracking Your Search History Commercial databases and traditional online systems have offered a search history feature for decades. Web search engines are finally catching up. The options vary greatly among them, but all raise a number of privacy issues. |
Information Today
April 25, 2005
Paula J. Hane |
Search Engines Roll Out New Personalization Options Several major search engines, such as Ask Jeeves and Yahoo!, are offering personalization upgrades to retain searchers. |
InternetNews
February 28, 2005
Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Bookmarklets, Favelets, and Keymarks: Shortcuts Galore Shortcuts can help expedite searching and other common online activities, important given the countless hours spent online each day by most searchers. Since specific computer set-up and work patterns vary tremendously, each individual has very different shortcut needs and wishes. |
PC Magazine
June 1, 2005
Sarah Pike |
Mozilla Firefox Mozilla's Firefox Web browser has been gaining an ever-growing stake in the online market. Whether you are switching over for the first time, or are a seasoned user, here are some tips to enhance your browsing experience. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
May 18, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Supercharging Firefox A new book from by Nigel McFarlane, Firefox Hacks, shows you how to supercharge your browsing experience. It's loaded with dozens of tips and techniques that you can apply right away. |
InternetNews
August 17, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Sizing Up the Search Competition In the Google-Yahoo rivalry, does the bigger index do a better job? |
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.... |
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. |
Searcher
March 2003
Stephen E. Arnold |
In Search of the Good Search: The Invisible Elephant Search remains a challenging human-computer issue. |
Information Today
May 27, 2008 |
WebLib Launches Universal Meta-Search and Discovery Engine AllPlus simultaneously searches the major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com) for webpages, news, videos, images, and blogs. |
Search Engine Watch
April 20, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Google Personalizes the Web Say goodbye to bookmarks: Google's My Search History feature automatically keeps track of web searches and every page viewed from search results by saving your "search behavior," not web pages. |
Search Engine Watch
October 25, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Updates Toolbar and Bookmarks Yahoo is releasing a new version of its toolbar with a powerful new bookmarking feature that integrates seamlessly with Yahoo web search, and features a "radical" new user interface. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
November 3, 2003
Ben Elgin |
Sharpen Your Internet Search All search engines are not equal. Knowing where and how to make your queries can help you avoid ads and get exactly the information you want -- fast. |
Search Engine Watch
August 16, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Who's Who in Social Search Many players, big and small, are working in the social search space. Here's a look at who's doing what to harness the power of human beings in improving search. |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
Review your PPC Keywords Search engines are always changing, and so are the ways people search for your products and services. So your keyword list should change as frequently. |
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. |
Information Today
October 8, 2007
Greg R. Notess |
Microsoft and Yahoo! Update Search In the evolution of Web searching, 2007 has become the year of multimedia integration, as major Web search engines have incorporated images and videos into the results for some searches. |
Searcher
October 2002
Gary D. Price |
Specialized Search Engine FAQs: More Questions, Answers and Issues An introduction to specialized search engine searching |
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.... |
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 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. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Unusual Power Web Searching Commands These are tools that you may never use or may only try once in a year of searching. But for those who like to dig deeper, who seek the hard-to-find information nuggets, using these commands can help you mine the Internet for information in ways that others will never consider. |
Search Engine Watch
March 22, 2004
Greg Jarboe |
Yahoo News Upgrades To Take On Google News Yahoo released a new version of its news search engine late last week, a new move in what may be a modern-day version of the great newspaper wars. |
InternetNews
October 25, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Yahoo Gears Toolbar, Bookmarks For Social Search Yahoo counters Google's social search announcement with its own. |
Technology Research News
October 22, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Queries guide Web crawlers Search engines approach the problem of sorting out the vast amount of information on the Internet by casting their nets as widely as they can, then sifting through the catch. An algorithm that analyzes what people are looking for could point search engines toward more relevant pages. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Search Engine Coverage Study Published In 1998, a landmark study published in Science magazine found that search engines fell well-short of listing everything on the web. Last month, a repeat to this study was published. Once again, search engines were found to contain only a small percentage of the web pages available. |
Search Engine Watch
July 21, 2004
Christine Churchill |
Meet The Crawlers Representatives of Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and Looksmart offer an inside glimpse of recent developments at the major search engines. The general focus for the major search engines continues to be on the user experience. |
Technology Research News
July 27, 2005 |
Internet Structure Search engines find content via spiders that go through the pages on a Web site by following the links among pages. Here is an overview of how search engines handle queries on the Internet. |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Being Search Boxed To Death General purpose search engines often can do many different jobs. Nevertheless, your results might be better if you turn to a vertical tool. This may be the year that the general purpose search engines finally figure out a way to get the right vertical tools into the hands of their users... |
PC World
August 2004
Tom Spring |
Search Tangles Internet search is big business. But the drive for profits by search firms and the sites they index is taking its toll on the results in your browser. |
PC Magazine
September 4, 2007
Bill Dyszel |
Tune Up Firefox for Research No matter which browser you're using, you'll do well to master the native features of the program first. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
December 16, 2003
Grant Crowell |
How Search Engines Make Money Too often, web entrepreneurs today think of search as a one-way business, focusing solely on how to make money off of the search engines without understanding how search engines also need to make money in order to survive and thrive. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
December 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Searching With Invisible Tabs Behind the scenes, search engines will one day automatically push the correct tab for your query and retrieve specialized search results. This should ultimately prove an improvement over the current situation where everything is answered by web page matches. |
PC World
January 30, 2007
Erik Larkin |
Build the Perfect Browser We tested dozens of add-ons to find tools that make the new versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox even more useful. |
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... |
