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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.   |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
December 31, 2010
Dean Stephens |
Health Gets Social in 2010 The role of social media in search results is influencing how health organizations attract and treat patients. |
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
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
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. |
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. |
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? |
Search Engine Watch
April 17, 2011
Dean Stephens |
Growth in Mobile Health Search How consumers and health care professionals search for health-related information online is trending toward mobile. With this easy access to information, what will be the next evolution in mobile health search? |
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. |
PC Magazine
January 24, 2011
Lance Ulanoff |
Why Don't I Love Quora? The latest social media darling is busy, interesting and possibly doomed to failure. |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2004 |
Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome Questions, answers, and recommendations on alcohol withdrawl syndrome. |
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. |
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. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2003 |
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease What is gastroesophageal reflux disease?... What are the symptoms of GERD?... How is GERD diagnosed?... How is GERD treated?... etc. |
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? |
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
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. |
Search Engine Watch
November 10, 2008
Ron Jones |
Build Your SEM Network -- Get LinkedIn How does one go about getting a job in search, or enhancing their career as a search professional? A partial answer to this question is to use a social networking tool like LinkedIn. |
AskMen.com
Robert Morris |
How To Maximize Your Doctor Visit Here's how to get the most bang for your buck before, during and after your visit to the doctor. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
February 1, 2007
Daniella Koren |
Direct to Consumer: One Size Fits You Custom-tailored e-mail campaigns yield high marks from consumers. |
American Family Physician
August 15, 2003 |
Crohn's Disease What is Crohn's disease?... Who gets Crohn's disease?... How can my doctor tell if I have Crohn's disease?... How is Crohn's disease treated?... What can I expect after treatment?... etc. |
BusinessWeek
October 14, 2010
Brad Stone |
Where Silicon Valley Goes for Answers Quora's Q&A site is an information trading post for tech insiders. |
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. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2006 |
Kawasaki Disease: What You Should Know A patient guide: What is Kawasaki disease?... What causes Kawasaki disease?... How can my doctor tell if my child has Kawasaki disease?... How is it treated?... etc. |
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. |
American Family Physician
June 1, 2003 |
Using an Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor What is high blood pressure?... What causes high blood pressure?... Why do I have to control my high blood pressure?... How can I check my blood pressure?... What is an ambulatory blood pressure monitor?... etc. |
Information Today
July 1, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Health Sites Use Semantic Technologies to Provide Better Results Searching for health information continues to be one of the most dominant areas of web search activity. |
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... |
American Family Physician
December 1, 2002 |
What Should I Know About Migraines? What are migraines?... How can my doctor tell that my headache is a migraine?... How is migraine headache treated?... What about the headache pain I'm having right now?... What are the "triptans"?... What else can I do?... etc. |
BusinessWeek
November 11, 2010
Stone & Pulley |
Diller's Ask.com Stops Searching IAC/InterActiveCorp has decided that Google is unstoppable in search, so it's recasting Ask.com as a Q&A site. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Quick Take: Yahoo! Follows the Leaders The portal giant updates its search engine. |
BusinessWeek
August 5, 2010
Justin Bachman |
How Question Sites Could Become Big Business Q&A services like Fluther and Quora could be a lucrative online sub-industry that could lead to targeted advertising. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Self-Help Health Websites Here's a list of some of the top self-help health websites across various domains of health. Each is designed to make your self-diagnosis easier, and to help you stay in good health without a trip to the waiting room. |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Offers New Y!Q Contextual Search Tool Yahoo has rolled out a nifty new tool that lets you use content you're viewing as the basis of a search query, providing results that are difficult to get otherwise without using advanced search commands. |
Search Engine Watch
February 20, 2011
Dean Stephens |
Social Networks and Health: Bad Medicine? Social networks can be invaluable for helping consumers with health care decisions, as well as brand awareness for health practitioners, organizations, and treatments -- as long as it's done right. |
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. |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2003 |
Heart Failure What is heart failure?... What causes heart failure?... What are the symptoms of heart failure?... What tests will I need?... What treatment will I need?... What medicines will I need to take?... etc. |
American Family Physician
June 15, 2006 |
Mental Retardation: What Caregivers Need to Know A caregiver's guide: What should I do about doctor visits for a person with mental retardation?... What if a person with mental retardation is hurt or acts strangely?... Who should make medical decisions for a person with mental retardation?... etc. |
The Motley Fool
November 14, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
Google's Diagnosis Is Good The company's ability to diagnose some diseases is yet another reason for investors to be bullish on Google's long-term prospects. |
AskMen.com
Simon Sinek |
Simon Sinek: Ask Questions Leadership is not about always being right, it's about finding the right answers. |
Search Engine Watch
October 17, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Curing Medical Information Disorder Healthline is a specialized medical search engine that offers high-quality, authoritative information that's easy to find, even if you don't speak medicalese. |
Information Today
March 1, 2007
Paula J. Hane |
A Checkup of Online Health Sites Consumers in need of reliable health information have some good sites available to them - if they know where to look. |
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. |
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. |
Science News
July 18, 2009 |
Science Past From The Issue Of July 18, 1959 Suggestions were offered for using computerized information to help doctors diagnose illnesses. |
InternetNews
February 3, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Tool Aims to Smarten Searches New Y!Q search tool adds contextual refinement. |
American Family Physician
March 1, 2004 |
Sweaty Hands and Feet Who gets sweaty hands and feet and how to treat this problem. |
