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InternetNews December 30, 2004 Clint Boulton |
Searching for IBM Big Blue sets its sights on the search market patrolled by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. |
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. |
Information Today January 9, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Thomson to Acquire Quantitative Analytics... Wolters Kluwer Adds Medical Point-of-Care Solutions... Quintura Search 1.0 Now Available... etc. |
CIO June 15, 2005 John Edwards |
Seek And Ye Shall (Hopefully) Find Are your employees and customers looking for answers? Enterprise search vendors promise to help you help them. |
Information Today March 24, 2008 |
SAS Adds Linguistic Technologies With Acquisition of Teragram The acquisition is designed to enhance text mining and analytical business intelligence (BI) offerings and extend them to enterprise and mobile search. |
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Colin C. Haley |
Blog-Spotting With IBM IBM's new software helps businesses monitor and analyze blogs, wikis and other community content. |
Search Engine Watch October 10, 2006 Brian Smith |
A Closer Look at Ask's Smart Answers Ask.com has truly differentiated itself with the "Smart Answers" it returns for thousands of queries, offering facts, images and targeted links that respond directly to a searcher's information need. |
Information Today December 26, 2007 |
IBM Offers Free Email Search Tool Big Blue unveiled "smart" search software designed to help people find information buried in email. |
Information Today August 15, 2005 Paula J. Hane |
IBM Introduces Open Software Framework for Analysis of Unstructured Information An Unstructured Information Management solution may generally be characterized as a software system that analyzes large volumes of unstructured data to discover, organize, and deliver relevant knowledge to the client or end user. |
InternetNews May 26, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Ask Jeeves Zooms in on Relevance Ask Jeeves unleashed Zoom, a related-search tool to help searchers narrow or expand the topic, and Web Answers, which provides answers to explicit or implicit questions. |
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... |
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... |
Information Today March 21, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest New partnerships: Nstein and Visual Analytics... McGraw Hill licenses reference titles... Onfolio, Inc. partners with Thompson ResearchSoft... |
Information Today November 10, 2008 |
Quintura Site Search Upgraded Quintura features a Search Cloud, a dynamic cloud of related search terms or tags to easily refine or narrow down a search query. |
Information Today May 31, 2005 Paula J. Hane |
Ask Jeeves Hopes to Zoom Ahead of Competitors Ask Jeeves, usually seen as an also-ran to Google and Yahoo!, has just introduced some core search innovations that it says will significantly improve the relevance and speed of users' searches. |
Search Engine Watch October 5, 2005 Chris Sherman |
New Features at AOL Search AOL continues to improve its web search capabilities, today adding a number of new features designed to appeal to casual searchers and power users alike. |
Information Today April 22, 2002 Tara Calishain |
New Google Answers Service Raises a Few Questions of Its Own Have a burning question? Google Answers charges for the answers and has built a group of external researchers to respond to the questions... |
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... |
Search Engine Watch May 11, 2005 Chris Sherman |
If Search Engines Could Read Your Mind What if a search engine knew exactly what you were thinking, and unerringly provided perfect search results? The idea is not as farfetched as it sounds. 20Q.net, an online version of the child's game "twenty questions," is a good example. |
Search Engine Watch August 17, 2004 Shari Thurow |
Search Engines and Competitive Research Search engines can tell you a lot about your competition, if you know what to look for. A panel of experts offers tips on profiling your competition and their online marketing efforts. |
InternetNews February 4, 2010 |
IBM Talks Up New Data Management Strategy IBM details its new products and services to help enterprises manage rapidly expanding unstructured data. |
Search Engine Watch October 19, 2006 Brian Smith |
A Closer Look At Microsoft's Instant Answers A look at Microsoft's Live.com's Instant Answers. |
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. |
Information Today December 4, 2006 Tara Calishain |
Google Shutters Its Answers Service Google's decision to close down Google Answers has produced a huge amount of discussion and comment from all corners of the Web. |
The Motley Fool August 11, 2010 Carl Bagh |
IBM's New Search Engine Filters Results Better Than Google IBM searches smartly. |
InternetNews March 4, 2005 Clint Boulton |
Nelson Mattos, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Big Blue is dedicating hundreds of software engineers to various research projects that blend corporate search with software integration to make life easier for employees. |
D-Lib June 2003 Kenney et al. |
Google Meets eBay: What Academic Librarians Can Learn from Alternative Information Providers This paper presents the results of a modest study to compare and contrast its digital reference services with those of Google Answers. The study provided an opportunity for librarians to gain insights into how Google's approach to service development and delivery has made it so attractive. |
Searcher Jul/Aug 2004 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice: "Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!" The information professionals serving users must rise to the task of assessing new services. They must also identify new answer product services that could solve client problems effectively and efficiently and promote their adoption vigorously. |
InternetNews March 29, 2007 Michael Hickins |
Teragram Puts Social in Search Information retrieval application vendor Teragram has launched MyGADS.com, a new service that allows consumers to publish information that can be shared and retrieved using their cell phones. |
InternetNews November 29, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Google Answers Ends Its Run If you have a question for Google Answers, you better hurry up and ask it. Later this week, Google will shut down the service, which allowed people to pose questions, for a fee, in the hopes of getting the perfect answer. |
Searcher October 2000 Stephen E. Arnold |
The 'R' Technology Revolution: Relationship, Research Revenue Single letters are the marketer's touchstones. We have the ubiquitous "e" used in company names, and, as one pundit exclaimed, "E-nough." We want to focus on "R" --- relationship technologies gathering research to produce revenue... |
D-Lib February 2003 Janes & Silverstein |
Question Negotiation and the Technological Environment People seeking answers or providing them now have many more options for "question negotiation", in the broadest Tayloresque sense. Consulting an information professional continues to be one of those options. In fact, such professionals can now be much more accessible. |
Searcher October 2002 Jessamyn West |
Information for Sale: My Experience With Google Answers When you're a freelance librarian, finding the right niche in a tough job market can be a challenge. When Google Answers started accepting applications for researchers for their online question-answering service in April, I thought I'd found my match. Here's my experience. |
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Answers Service, API Program Google introduced two new interesting features last month. The first, Google Answers, is a beta program that allows users to get personal answers from a professional researcher, in exchange for a fee. The second allows programmers to use the new Google Web APIs... |
Information Today April 11, 2005 Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo |
Google Unveils New Q&A Service Despite a few bugs and no search tab Google rolls out Q&A, a service providing quick answers to your questions. |
Information Today October 23, 2008 |
Quintura Launches Site Search Solution in U.S. Market Quintura, a provider of a site search, analytics, and monetization platform for online content publishers, announced the official launch of its site search into the U.S. market and the awarding of its first U.S. patent. |
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.... |
Searcher January 2003 Jessamyn West |
Google Answers Back Or How to Become an Ex Google Answers Researcher |
Search Engine Watch June 8, 2006 Danny Sullivan |
Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers! New stats add fuel to the idea that Yahoo Answers is perhaps becoming a social interacting phenomenon like YouTube or MySpace. A look at the service's growth and how it works. |
Information Today May 6, 2010 |
Quintura Releases Quintura Site Search, Version 2.0 Quintura, a visual-based search engine, has released version 2.0 of its hosted site search service, Quintura Site Search. |
Search Engine Watch February 6, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Internet Top Information Resource, Study Finds A study that monitored 74 people over four days during the Fall of 2000 shows that Americans need answers to four questions per day, spend nearly 9 hours per week looking for those answers, online or off, and that the Internet has become their top information resource... |
Information Today Barbara Quint |
Yahoo! Answers Relies on the Kindness . . . of Strangers Yahoo! has introduced a new beta service that expands its search engine and community-building offerings with a free service "where people can ask questions and get answers from real people on any topic." |
Salon.com June 21, 2001 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Google a go-go While other search engines sputter and fail, Monika Henzinger, Google's director of research, has an answer to every query... |
Information Today December 11, 2008 |
Quintura Offers Customizable Options for Web Publishers Quintura, provider of a visual-based site search solution for online content publishers, announced new features for its publishing affiliates. |
Information Today June 2, 2008 |
Teragram Integrates Linguistic Tools With Apache Lucene The integration enables Lucene users to add taxonomies and faceted search to their websites, as well as to correct the spelling of queries and search in multiple languages. |
Search Engine Watch January 22, 2011 Dean Stephens |
Turning to Social Media & Search Engines for Smart Health Answers How health marketers can ensure consumers find answers to their most important health questions in a timely manner. No one wants to wait for hours to figure out if they need to see a doctor. |
Information Today May 6, 2002 Tara Calishain |
Yahoo! Service Offers More Advice Than Expertise First Google started an advice service with Google Answers. Now Yahoo! has stepped into the arena with Yahoo! Advice, which is offered through a partnership with LiveAdvice. Is this a new trend in search engine offerings or just a way for these two companies to generate revenue? |
Search Engine Watch June 2, 2000 |
WWW9 Features Search Papers Those looking for technical papers relating to search should head over to the proceedings of the recent Ninth International World Wide Web Conference, which was held from May 15 to 19.... |
InternetNews August 30, 2005 Clint Boulton |
IBM Driving Efficiency For Cars IBM puts its next-generation search technology in Quality Insight Solution, a software package for the automotive sector. |
Searcher March 2003 Stephen E. Arnold |
In Search of the Good Search: The Invisible Elephant Search remains a challenging human-computer issue. |