Google Offers Personalized Results
Tired of getting irrelevant search results when you type in a generic term in the search engine box?
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Tired of getting irrelevant search results when you type in a generic term in the search engine box?
For years, the major search engines have been building membership lists by offering a diverse range of services to registered users.
HBO is planning to promote the new season of "Sopranos" by using Google Maps. Time Warner's cable network plans to form interactive maps of New Jersey to keep track of the characters and where events occur, as well as a way to help viewers remember old storylines.
If you've got questions, the users at Yahoo Answers don't have blank stares; they may have answered your question already, and the Yahoo Answers engineers have made it easier to find that answer with the wonders of Ajax programming.
Technorati's Dave Sifry has a word of advice for blogger upstarts: find your niche and aim for "The Magic Middle." Sifry says there's a middle ground, where topic specialization, a modest number of inbound links, and a little help from some new features can be enough to climb the ladder of blog success.
If you are curious about how ads from the forthcoming adCenter service will look after it replaces Overture this summer, a testing site lets visitors glimpse the future according to adCenter. What it doesn't show: the prospect of a leveled-off online ad marketplace.