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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.   |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
November 9, 2006
Brian Smith |
A Closer Look at Google OneBox Results A Q & A with Google Product Marketing Director Debbie Jaffe wraps up our four-part series on the special information sections creeping into general search results. |
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
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... |
InternetNews
August 17, 2009 |
WolframAlpha Bets on Standing Out From the Pack WolframAlpha takes a different route than the big names, leveraging data sources like the Xignite financial system to focus on presenting precise answers. But does the approach have staying power? |
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. |
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. |
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
July 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Answers Has a Way With Words Answers is acquiring Lexico -- the parent of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com -- in an all-cash $100 million deal. Investors, take note. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
July 19, 2010
Eli Goodman |
How Search is Making us Smarter Online search has clearly evolved to become the de facto answer delivery system for our questions. How search opens learning opportunities to us every day. |
InternetNews
July 28, 2010 |
Ask to Begin Offering 'Community' Search Results Ask.com is expanding trials of crowd-sourced search results, inviting users to "ask the community" in an effort to provide direct answers to queries, rather than the standard bank of links. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 27, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's Got Answers.com Online reference site Answers.com extends its contract with Google to fill its website with relevant Google AdWords text ads. The deal sent Answers shares soaring. |
Search Engine Watch
March 6, 2008
Kevin Newcomb |
Ask.com Remains Committed to Search The reports of Ask.com's death have been exaggerated. The company is not throwing in the towel, as many believe. |
InternetNews
February 12, 2010 |
Google Goes More Social With Aardvark Buy In purchasing Aardvark, Google looks to extend its social media reach with a service that taps into the knowledge of the online community for answers. What do competitors say? |
Information Today
December 15, 2008 |
Expert System Introduces COGITO Answers The new platform is designed to improve corporate search and customer support through websites, email, or mobile devices. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google Steals Some Answers Google is apparently gearing up to relaunch its Google Answers; this time the Q&A offering will feel a lot more like Yahoo! Answers. |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving A new page dedicated just to Yahoo Search has been added, allowing those who want to bypass all the Yahoo portal and network information that crowds the regular Yahoo home page. The Yahoo Search page presents a Google-like pure search face to the world. |
Search Engine Watch
February 27, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Ask Loses Jeeves, Gains New Features The butler has gone into retirement, and Ask.com now sports a crisp new look with a number of impressive new features -- including icon-directed access to more than 20 search tools. |
InternetNews
March 30, 2009
Stuart J. Johnston |
Your Next Live Search Destination: Flight Status As Microsoft works to beef up its Live Search offering, it introduces Active Answers. |
Information Today
May 27, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Ask.com Settling Down as Reference Site? After months of turmoil within Ask.com and its parent, IAC/InterActiveCorp., the acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, LLC and its reference properties, could help distinguish Ask.com as a reference site. |
Searcher
January 2003
Jessamyn West |
Google Answers Back Or How to Become an Ex Google Answers Researcher |
AskMen.com
Simon Sinek |
Simon Sinek: Ask Questions Leadership is not about always being right, it's about finding the right answers. |
InternetNews
December 2, 2009 |
Ask.com Reveals Top Ten Questions of 2009 Who knew so many folks go to Web to find out what time it is? But other top queries are a bit more thoughtful. |
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." |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
February 27, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Ask Says Bye to Butler Ask Jeeves rebrands to highlight new service and features. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
October 11, 2010
Eli Goodman |
Universal Search: Not All Blends are Created Equal Searchers are more inclined to interact and engage with blended results than text-based results. Here's how blended results can impact your search marketing and optimization efforts on Google, Bing, and Yahoo. |
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... |
PC Magazine
August 15, 2006
Monson et al. |
The Top 101 Classic Web Sites of 2006 Our established canon of Web sites that have set the standard for the Internet at large. |
InternetNews
October 6, 2008
David Needle |
Ask.com Overhauls to Take On Search Leaders The latest version of Ask.com includes a revamped interface and other features designed to simplify a user's quest for the right results. |
Information Today
February 26, 2007
Barbara Quint |
Answers.com's AnswerTips Ready to Bubble Up on Web Sites and Blogs With the AnswerTips service, webmasters and bloggers need not worry about their users drifting off to other sites while looking for the definition of a word. |
The Motley Fool
May 15, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
IAC Looks It Up IAC buys the parent company behind Dictionary.com. |
| T.H.E. Journal |
FYI - Ask Jeeves Kids Teachers can now easily answer their students' difficult questions with Ask.com's site for kids, Ask Jeeves Kids (www.ajkids.com). Students can ask Jeeves just about any question from "Why is the sky blue?" to "What is the capital of North Dakota?" and get immediate answers |
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? |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - The Changing Information Cycle Finding a community of Web sites that together provide an answer can offer a deeper and broader understanding of certain issues than by using the traditional information cycle. |
CRM
September 23, 2004 |
The Pulse How did you integrate your sales process with your CRM software? Here's a chart with survey answers. |
Information Today
March 19, 2007 |
Yahoo! Answers Adds Personal Networking Yahoo! Answers, a Q&A site on the Web, has introduced "knowledge networking," an easy way for people to connect to others online and to build a personal network of people to exchange knowledge with on specific areas of interest. |
Information Today
August 9, 2010
Woody Evans |
Facebook Questions & Ask.com: Cashing in on Mass Ignorance Indicators point toward a substantive change in the tone of the web, along the lines of the paradigm shift from directories to search engines. Two recent developments typify this change at Facebook Questions and Ask.com. |
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... |
