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Google Unveils Customised Search

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in search, Google and wiki. 0 Comments

Google has unveiled a tool that will allow users to customise and refine their search queries. The company’s SearchWiki lets users re-order, remove or add specific web search results. This means the next time they perform the same search, the personalised version will pop up. “I would call this revolutionary. It’s a huge step, not a baby step in the world of search,” Google’s product manager, Cedric Dupont, told the BBC.

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How Google’s Ear Hears

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in search, Google and iPhone. 0 Comments

The new voice-search application for the iPhone marks a milestone for spoken interfaces. If you own an iPhone, you can now be part of one of the most ambitious speech-recognition experiments ever launched. On Monday, Google announced that it had added voice search to its iPhone mobile application, allowing people to speak search terms into their phones and view the results on the screen.

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Privacy Laws Trip Up Google’s Expansion in Parts of Europe

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Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in search, Google and privacy. 0 Comments

When Google began hiring in Zurich for its new engineering center in 2004, local officials welcomed the company with open arms. Google’s arrival is still bearing fruit for Zurich: 450 people, 300 of them engineers, work in Google’s seven-story complex in a converted brewery on the outskirts of the placid mountain metropolis. But almost five years into its expansion into Europe — where it has a headquarters in Dublin, large offices in Zurich and London, and smaller centers in countries like Denmark, Russia and Poland — Google is getting caught in a web of privacy laws that threaten its growth and the positive image it has cultivated as a company dedicated to doing good.

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The Art of the Field Study

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Published by rwatstein November 9th, 2008 in users, search and Google. 0 Comments

I’m Dan Russell, a member of the Google Search Quality team doing user experience research. This post is part of our ongoing series to talk about the Search Quality team at Google, showing a bit of what we do in the day-to-day course of improving the quality of the user experience. The role of “user experience” research is to try and get the inside story on what people do when they search. We’re constantly asking: What’s the user’s experience of search? What works and doesn’t work for them? What are they looking for? What DO they want?

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Google Makes Scanned Documents Searchable

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Published by rwatstein November 9th, 2008 in search, digital and Google. 0 Comments

Using optical character-recognition technology, Google will make the converted text of scanned PDFs available on its search results pages via the “View as HTML” link.

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How to Use the New Google Web Search RSS Feeds

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Published by rwatstein November 9th, 2008 in search, Google and RSS. 0 Comments

Google’s been the lone hold out among major search engines on RSS but the company quietly enabled feeds for web search results this week. The offering is pretty limited and frustrating, you have to go through Google Alerts to get an obscure RSS URL, but we offer a tutorial and some strategic advice in this post. Web search RSS is useful for being alerted whenever search results for your keywords or link have changed; subscribing to at least a few searches will let you know when Google users are seeing something new in the first few pages of search results for your company name, for example.

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Paper — Finding Experts By Semantic Matching of User Profiles

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Published by rwatstein November 9th, 2008 in users, search and semantic web. 0 Comments

Extracting interest profiles of users based on their personal documents is one of the key topics of IR research. However, when these extracted profiles are used in expert finding applications, only naive text- matching techniques are used to rank experts for a given requirement. In this paper, we address this gap and describe multiple techniques to match user profiles for better ranking of experts. We propose new metrics for computing semantic similarity of user profiles using spreading activation networks derived from ontologies. Our pilot evaluation shows that matching algorithms based on bipartite graphs over semantic user profiles provide the best results. We show that using these techniques, we can find an expert more accurately than other approaches, in particular within the top ranked results. In applications where a group of candidate users need to be short-listed (say, for a job interview), we get very good precision and recall as well.

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Boston Public Library: The Ultimate Search Engine

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Published by rwatstein November 2nd, 2008 in libraries and search. 0 Comments

Though libraries may increasingly become relics in the Google-driven Web 2.0 era, Allen & Gerritsen positions the Boston Public Library system as the ultimate search engine and portrays its librarians as “heroes of information” in a new campaign. A new campaign by the Watertown, Mass., agency, tagged “What do you want to know?” plays up the resources of the BPL’s 27 branches and focuses on the human element often absent from Internet-based searches.

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Free Online Image Search Tutorial

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Published by rwatstein November 2nd, 2008 in education, search and image. 0 Comments

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has published a free online tutorial called Internet for Image Searching. The tutorial is designed to help staff and students in universities and colleges to find digital images for their learning and teaching.

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YouTube Now World’s No. 2 Search Engine

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Published by rwatstein October 25th, 2008 in YouTube and search. 0 Comments

Productivity is dead, the internet is going to explode. According to ComScore’s August 2008 search engine rankings, YouTube is now the number two search engine in the world, surpassing Yahoo. YouTube fetched over 2.6 billion search queries that month, trumping Yahoo’s 2.4 billion—though Google itself still reigns supreme with 7.6 billion queries (together, Google and YouTube field 10.2 billion). That’s a hell of a lot of video, just on YouTube. And I don’t even wanna know how many of those were looking for Rick Astley’s magnum opus.

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Google Confirms Random House Joins Surging Google Book Search

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Published by rwatstein October 25th, 2008 in search, books, Google and publishing. 0 Comments

Google said at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair that it as has doubled the number of publishers participating in Google Book Search from last year, and confirmed that among its new partners is Random House, the world’s largest English language publisher.

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Searching for the Mobile Web

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Published by rwatstein October 25th, 2008 in mobile/cell phones, internet and search. 0 Comments

Search technology has transformed the way that people use the Internet and has made piles of money for giants like Google. This week at Mobile Internet World 2008, in Boston, industry leaders gathered to talk about emerging technologies that might at last bring useful Internet search to mobile devices too.

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New Media Player Allows Spoken-Word Search

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Published by rwatstein October 25th, 2008 in search. 0 Comments

EveryZing, a media indexing company, is launching its own media player that lets people search for spoken words within videos. The new video player, called MetaPlayer, uses technology the company already has in its ezSearch and ezSEO products. On sites that support it (the first announced is the Dallas Cowboys site), users will be able to type in a query in the video player and see where the term entered comes up; they can then jump to that spot.

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Now It Is Possible to Search Google Using a Voice

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Published by rwatstein October 19th, 2008 in search and Google. 0 Comments

Developers from Ukraine had a dream of creating a voice-enabled search engine. But facing a huge amount of work they decided to start with an Internet Explorer toolbar which allows searching Google™ using a speech. VoiceSearchBar.com was released on 11th of October. On the website it is possible to download free toolbar for Internet Explorer browser which enables speech recognition for the Google™ Search Engine. This is the first program which allows users to search the web using a voice.

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How 2 . . . Create Your Own Search Engine

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Published by rwatstein October 12th, 2008 in search and Google. 0 Comments

Doing a Google search can sometimes be overwhelming because it provides so many results. Creating a Google Custom Search Engine allows you to only search the sites you choose, so you get fewer results. You may want to have several custom search engines, each focusing on different subjects. Custom search engines can also be an alternative to bookmarking interesting links and articles you want to read later. 1. Go to google.com/cse and click on “Create a Custom Search Engine.” If necessary, sign in with your Google account or create one.

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Ask.com Revamps Site for 3rd Time Since 2005

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Published by rwatstein October 12th, 2008 in search and Ask. 0 Comments

When search engine Ask.com first launched, the site touted itself as a place where people searching for information on the Web could ask natural-language questions and get relevant answers back as results. Now Ask is doubling down on that mission, launching a new version of its site on Monday that includes some of the first hints of natural-language processing technology, among other new features. The new site represents the third major overhaul for Ask since 2005, when the site was bought by IAC/Interactive and soon after dropped its Jeeves character. An improved relevance engine figures in several new search technologies to filter and organize results, including one that integrates structured data provided by partners, another that specifically queries tens of thousands of user-generated content sites, a semantic search technology that aims to give users direct answers to questions they ask, and links to related searches. The site will continue to weave news, video, and image results in with regular search results.

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Making Search Social

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Published by rwatstein October 12th, 2008 in users and search. 0 Comments

Looking for an apartment online, day after day, can get tedious. Finding the right sofa at the right price can also be time consuming. A new search engine, called Yotify, is designed to make these kinds of persistent quests more tolerable, and hopefully more successful. Much like Google Alerts and Yahoo Alerts, a Yotify search does not start and end in an instant. Instead, the search runs at regular intervals–either hourly or daily, depending on the user’s preference–with results sent back to the user via e-mail.

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Google Blog Search Relaunches

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Published by rwatstein October 12th, 2008 in blogs, search and Google. 0 Comments

Marshall Kirkpatrick writes: “In its first major upgrade ever, Google Blog Search just relaunched and looks radically different. Instead of the blank page look of Google.com, Blogsearch now looks like Google News (but uglier), with the hottest topics from the blogosphere aggregated on the front page. Readers can drill down in 11 different categories, from technology, business, sports, and entertainment. Google says you can use Blogsearch to see what the world is talking about.”

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What is the Future of Human-Powered Search?

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Published by rwatstein October 12th, 2008 in users and search. 0 Comments

Bernard Lunn writes: “Mahalo popularized the term ‘human powered search’ when they launched just over a year ago. Many of the pitches we get still use that term as part of their positioning. Many of them are bootstrapped, so the price of entry is clearly low. But the upside has not yet been established. In this post we look at the pros and cons of human-powered search engines in general, look at some differentiating strategies, and ponder the future.”

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hakia Issues Open Call to Librarians and Information Professionals: Help Us Guide Web Searchers to Credible Web Sites

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Published by rwatstein September 27th, 2008 in librarians/information professionals, search, semantic web and hakia. 0 Comments

Semantic search engine hakia today announced an open call to librarians and information professionals to participate in a new program to unlock credible and free Web resources to Web searchers. Currently, hakia is generating credibility-stamped results for health and medical searches to guide users towards credible Web content. These results come from credible Web sites vetted by the Medical Library Association. Now, hakia is aiming to further its coverage to all topics, with the participation of librarians and information professionals. A popular Web source may not always be credible, and a credible Web source may not always be popular. hakia is the first search engine to channel the collective knowledge of librarians and information professionals to generate credibility-stamped results using semantic technology. This is in contrast to leading general search engines like Google, which rely mostly on the popularity of keywords and Webpages. For an example of what a credibility-stamped search looks like on hakia today, try a search for: What causes heart disease?

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Google Will Tap Into Our Thoughts

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Published by rwatstein September 21st, 2008 in search and Google. 0 Comments

Google has predicted a future in which the ultimate search engine can read our thoughts. The internet giant also revealed it aims to make people’s documents and photos available to them anywhere in the world via cyberspace. One of Google’s senior Australian executives outlined its startling vision for its future. Alan Noble, engineering director for Sydney-based Google Australia, predicted computers will eventually have a sixth sense to read our thoughts. “We think web search is, at best, 10 per cent solved,” he said. “The holy grail of searches is you walk up to your computer, and it tells you what you want even before you think about it.”

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Google Uncertain on Whether to Give Users a Voice in Search

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Published by rwatstein September 21st, 2008 in users, search and Google. 0 Comments

Google is still debating the merits of an experiment that allowed users to re-rank and remove search engine results and comment on them. The test, presented to a random portion of users, adds buttons next to result links to move them up and down, remove them from view and append comments to them. Implementing these features permanently would be a major step for Google in giving more participation to its users in influencing the process of ranking and evaluating search results.

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B.G. (Before Google)

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Published by rwatstein September 14th, 2008 in internet, search, Google and history. 0 Comments

I started using the Internet in the 1970s. It didn’t look anything like it does today, and our search tools were, well, awful. Still compared to what we started with, they were great. Before I ever turned my hand to writing, I put myself through graduate school by doing research on the very first online database systems: NASA RECON, Dialog, and OCLC. These systems, which are still around, are part of what’s called the Matrix, and, no, I don’t mean the movie. The Matrix, as defined by John S. Quarterman, is the superset of all interconnected networks. Now, unlike then, you can get to these networks over the Internet, but you’ll find yourself blocked from getting very deep into them without permission. As for the Internet itself, it didn’t really have search tools then. It wasn’t until the late 1980s that the Internet became searchable. For example, today, if you want to find a particular file, Google is your friend and sites like Mininova make finding BitTorrent files easy. When I started, we had to go through ftp file directories screen by screen and hope that the file was in there somewhere.

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Opening Search to Semantic Upstarts

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Published by rwatstein September 14th, 2008 in search, Yahoo and semantic web. 0 Comments

Even if you have a great idea for a new search engine, it’s far from easy to get it off the ground. For one thing, the best engineering talent resides at big-name companies. Even more significantly, according to some estimates, it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to buy and maintain the servers needed to index the Web in its entirety. However, Yahoo recently released a resource that may offer hope to search innovators and entrepreneurs. Called Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS), it allows programmers to make use of Yahoo’s index of the Web–billions of pages that are continually updated–thereby removing perhaps the biggest barrier to search innovation. By opening its index to thousands of independent programmers and entrepreneurs, Yahoo hopes that BOSS will kick-start projects that it lacks the time, money, and resources to invent itself. Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Research and a consulting professor at Stanford University, says this might include better ways of searching videos or images, tools that use social networks to rank search results, or a semantic search engine that tries to understand the contents of Web pages, rather than just a collection of keywords and links.

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Google Reigns as World’s Most Powerful 10-Year-Old

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Published by rwatstein September 14th, 2008 in search and Google. 0 Comments

When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor’s $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world. It sounded preposterous 10 years ago, but look now: Google draws upon a gargantuan computer network, nearly 20,000 employees and a $150 billion market value to redefine media, marketing and technology. Perhaps Google’s biggest test in the next decade will be finding a way to pursue its seemingly boundless ambitions without triggering a backlash that derails the company.

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Google Copying, Storing More Stories Fit for Print

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Published by rwatstein September 14th, 2008 in search, digital and Google. 0 Comments

Google Inc. is trying to expand the newspaper section of its online library to include billions of articles published during the past 244 years, hoping the added attraction will lure even more traffic to its leading Internet search engine. The project announced Monday extends Google’s crusade to make digital copies of content created before the Internet’s advent, so the information can become more accessible and, ultimately, Google can make more money from ads shown on its Web site.

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Google and Firefox Together Until 2011

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Published by rwatstein September 7th, 2008 in search, Google, Firefox and Mozilla. 0 Comments

Mozilla, the makers of Firefox internet browser (the only notable competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer), has extended its deal with Google - meaning the search giant will continue to be the default search engine on all its Firefox installs until 2011.

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Ask.com Launches All-New Ask Kids Search Engine

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Published by rwatstein August 31st, 2008 in children, search and Ask. 0 Comments

With school back in session and families gearing up for the nightly homework grind, Ask.com announces the upgrade and expansion of its popular children’s and tweens’ search engine, Ask Kids ( http://www.askkids.com). Built with Ask.com’s proprietary search technology, Ask Kids delivers a search experience unlike anything for kids on the Internet today — including more relevant, kid-friendly search results presented in the most graphically vivid display of any major search engine. The Ask Kids launch advances Ask.com’s strategy of using its core search technology to fuel vertical search properties such as RushmoreDrive.com, the search engine for the Black community, launched in April 2008.

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Search Engines Grow In Popularity, Used Daily By 50% of Users

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Published by rwatstein August 31st, 2008 in Pew Research, demographics and search. 0 Comments

According to a new study released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, about 50% of Internet users use search engines every single day, showing a major growth in search engine popularity. Their study looked at the percentage of Internet users who now use search engines. What they found was that 49% of Internet users now use them on a daily basis, showing a major increase in recent years. In 2002, around 30% of Internet users used search engines on a daily basis.

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Metacafe Flavors Video Search with Wikipedia-Type Perk

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Published by rwatstein August 31st, 2008 in YouTube, video and search. 0 Comments

Erstwhile YouTube alternative Metacafe launches a new Wikipedia-like tool called Wikicafe, which lets users make video search more effective through open metadata tagging. Users can go in and edit information about the videos and add links and other content. The tool typifies Web 2.0 messaging and collaboration. Short-form video site Metacafe, one of a handful of sites looking to offer users a video experience that is not a carbon copy of Google’s YouTube video-sharing site, has opened its metadata for community contributions and editing. This means not only can Metacafe’s 30 million monthly viewers upload videos to the site, but they can edit video titles, tags, descriptions or any relevant notes about the videos. Called Wikicafe, the feature is designed to eliminate so-called tag abuse, where inaccurate or incomplete metadata thwarts users who are trying to find what they want through video search.

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Search Engine Helps Locate Video Online

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Published by rwatstein July 12th, 2008 in video and search. 0 Comments

With YouTube, Blip, Hulu, and scores of other online video sites, just keeping track of what’s there has been no easy challenge. Well, it’s now easier thanks to a new search engine that specializes in finding TV clips, movies, and videos of all types. It’s called Yidio and it’s all about video. Keeping track, it claims, of 200 million different videos from all over the world.

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Does Google Know Too Much?

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Published by rwatstein July 5th, 2008 in search, Google and privacy. 0 Comments

Google Inc. might be widely admired for its technical wizardry and its quick, accurate search engine, but one of the company’s most impressive accomplishments has been its ability to grow as powerful as it is while still remaining, in the minds of most Americans, fundamentally likable. The company has more than 15,000 employees and a market value as big as Coca-Cola and Boeing combined. Its search engine is the tool of first resort for expert researchers and schoolkids alike; for suspicious employers, first-daters, long-lost friends, blackmailers, reporters and police investigators — for seekers of any and all sorts of information.

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Google, Yahoo to Search inside Flash Files

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Published by rwatstein July 5th, 2008 in search, Google and Yahoo. 0 Comments

Adobe announced recently that Google and Yahoo are adding search capabilities that will enable users to look inside the content of files encoded in Adobe’s Flash file format — SWF.The content inside SWF files has heretofore been ignored by the search engine giants, but Adobe has worked with both companies to make sure that their search engine technology can now look inside existing and future SWF content, including text, hyperlinks, audio and video content.

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100 Useful Niche Search Engines

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Published by rwatstein June 29th, 2008 in search. 0 Comments

Laura Milligan writes: “Though Google is often touted as the number-one search engine online, college students sometimes need more specific tools to help them uncover quality information on the Web that they can use for class projects, research papers, and even job and apartment searches. This list features a huge variety of search engines that can be useful to students, including tools that find photos, sound effects, summer internships, health and medical information, reference guides, and a lot more.”

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11 FireFox Extensions to Search Google Properly

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Published by rwatstein June 29th, 2008 in search, Google and Firefox. 0 Comments

Google has managed to build an awesome search engine to my mind: it has a simple user-friendly interface and returns the most relevant results. However naturally, Google just can’t satisfy everyone’s needs.The following FireFox Extensions will help you to adapt Google’s interface and results to what you need, in the most efficient manner possible, making Google even better.

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Top 10 Search Terms in 10 Categories, May 2008

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Published by rwatstein June 21st, 2008 in search. 0 Comments

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Multilingual Searching: Search Engine Language Tools

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Published by rwatstein June 7th, 2008 in search and language. 0 Comments

The World Wide Web may not cover the entire globe, but it certainly has a presence in most populated places throughout the world. With such an international scope, the “multilinguality” of web content continues to increase. For savvy searchers, the multiple languages and content from distant countries create new opportunities for finding previously buried information resources.

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10 Seriously Useful Firefox Add-ons

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Published by rwatstein June 1st, 2008 in search, Firefox, widgets and Mozilla. 0 Comments

Most of the information professionals I know are huge fans of Firefox, mainly because it is so…extensible. The sheer number and variety of add-ons that increase the browser’s utility…just staggering. If there is something you wish that Firefox could do, the odds are very good that someone with programming talent had the same thing in mind — and has created some sort of extension that adds precisely that functionality.Since I spend so much of my working existence online, my Firefox browser is seriously pimped out with a stalwart set of add-ons that, collectively, make my life so much easier. The following are road-tested and highly recommended.

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Microsoft Abandons Book Scan Plan

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Published by rwatstein June 1st, 2008 in search, books, collections and Microsoft. 0 Comments

Microsoft last week announced that it will pull the plug on its book and scholarly article scan plans, Live Search Books and Live Search Academic, and that both sites will be taken down. “We recognize that this decision comes as disappointing news to our partners, the publishing and academic communities, and Live Search users,” reads a Microsoft blog post from Satya Nadella, Microsoft senior VP search, portal and advertising. “We believe the next generation of search is about the development of an underlying, sustainable business model for the search engine, consumer, and content partner.” Nadella said that books digitized under the programs would now be included in MSN search results.b

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2008 Memorial Day Search Logos

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Published by rwatstein June 1st, 2008 in search. 0 Comments

Search Engine Land writes, “Today is Memorial Day, so we plan on keeping it light over here at the blog today. I have a post at the Search Engine Roundtable, with a collection of logos I have found from the various search related companies and blogs for the special day. Here is a single picture with those logos and themes all in one image”

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Google ‘Europe’s Most Popular Search Engine’

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Published by rwatstein May 26th, 2008 in search and Google. 0 Comments

Some eight out of ten web searches conducted in Europe in March were carried out using Google, new figures have shown. Digital research firm comScore reported that over 19 billion searches were carried out on Google in March, making up a total of 79 per cent of Europe’s entire search market. “With nearly 80 percent of all searches conducted in March, Google is far and away the leading search property in Europe,” said Jack Flanagan, executive vice-president of comScore.

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Google Puts Kybosh on ‘Eco’ Search Engine

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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008 in search, Google and green. 0 Comments

A new Australian green search engine seeking to capitalise on web surfers’ eco-guilt has been barred by Google from using its search technology and advertising platform. Ecocho.com.au promises to buy carbon offset credits that will result in two trees being planted for every 1000 searches made through the site. It gives users the option of searching through either Yahoo or Google and serves up their ads alongside search results. But like other green search engines, it is questionable whether Ecocho really is any more environmentally friendly than regular Google search.

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Baidu Adds Obama to Logo

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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008 in China and search. 0 Comments

Baidu, the leading search engine in China, is getting involved in the coming US Presidential elections it seems. They have added a caricature of Barack Obama and the democrat donkey in the Baidu logo.

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Start-up Askpedia: IAC Doesn’t Like Our Name

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Published by rwatstein March 29th, 2008 in search and Ask. 0 Comments

Just how much does Ask.com own the word “Ask?” Enough to have a problem with a question-and-answer site called “Askpedia,” apparently. Representatives from the start-up Askpedia.com told CNET News.com that the search engine’s parent company, InterActiveCorp, sent a cease-and-desist letter earlier this month, citing intellectual property violations in the name “Askpedia.” “(This) is likely to cause consumer confusion, particularly inasmuch as Askpedia purports to provide online informational services that are substantially similar to those provided by Ask,” the letter dated March 13 reads. “In using and incorporating Ask’s intellectual property in this manner, Askpedia is falsely suggesting a connection between Ask and Askpedia, and thereby misappropriating the substantial good will associated with Ask’s trademarks.”

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Searching as a Team

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Published by rwatstein March 23rd, 2008 in search and collaboration. 0 Comments

Social software is proliferating online, but many of the most common Internet tools, such as search engines, are still used in isolation. “These tools are designed for a single person, working alone by him or herself, but that’s not always the way that we work,” says Meredith Morris, a researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research. People planning travel with their spouses, she says, or students working on research projects with classmates all too often find themselves repeating work others have done or fail to find sites that others have identified. Morris is designing a tool that could begin to help with this problem. Called SearchTogether, the tool is meant to help groups whose members are working on different computers, whether they’re all logged in simultaneously or one at a time.

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Waiting for the Semantic Web

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Published by rwatstein March 23rd, 2008 in search and semantic web. 0 Comments

Yahoo is about to add semantic elements to search, as announced on March 13 at www.ysearchblog.com. For educators, evolution toward search based on meaning and not just a character-string is highly significant. With search as it is now, using Google or Yahoo or Microsoft and so on, we must imagine what terms might describe the object we’re looking for. We might try 2 or 3 or more different ways to find the right search string to come up with appropriate sites. But maybe there’s help on the way.

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4,000 Search Engines You’ve Never Heard Of…

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Published by rwatstein March 3rd, 2008 in search. 0 Comments

Phil Bradley writes, “Have you ever heard of Black Stump? How about TicoFun, Leit, Tanikalang Ginto or Kanoksearch? Don’t worry if you haven’t, but on the off chance that you have, I’d take a guess that you’re interested in Australia, Costa Rica, Iceland, the Philippines or Thailand respectively. They’re all search engines – the main difference between them and many of the others that you will have heard about are because they have a very specific focus, on a country or a region.”

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Specialized Search Engines

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Published by rwatstein March 3rd, 2008 in search. 0 Comments

Phil Bradley maintains a web page with links to various search sites that offer specialized expertise. Need to know about trends in searching? Want to re-rank or reorder your results? Need to search for different file formats? Phil has some suggestions.

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What are People Searching For and Where Are They Looking?

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Published by rwatstein March 3rd, 2008 in search. 0 Comments

We know that knowledge workers spend a large percentage of their time looking for information. What are they looking for and where are they looking? In fall 2007, we set about trying to find out. In conjunction with KMWorld and IDC’s Technology Advisory Panel, we asked participants to tell us how long they spent searching, what their typical questions were, and where they went (online or print) to find the information they needed. The 272 people who answered our questions ran the gamut of job categories, with 28 percent coming from IT, 21 percent from professional services, 12 percent from operations and 10 percent from executive management. They were distributed fairly evenly by company size and across industry, education and government sectors. Here’s what we found:1. Everyone looks for information first on the Web.

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