Something that’s “custom” is usually rare; it’s often, in fact, unique. Yet the Google Custom Search platform is available to just a lot of folks, as a new announcement states that it’s accessible in 40 languages and roughly 80 countries.
Meaning Extraction Integrated into Business Search
Northern Light, a company that provides strategic research portals, business research content, and search technology to global enterprises, is breaking new ground by integrating meaning extraction into their business search.
MSFT Wants 30% of Search, 40% of Web Ads
Well, if you can’t be #1, then you should probably do like Microsoft and aim for being “one of the top two” (aka #2). Reuters reports that Microsoft is looking to knock one of their competitors (you know, Yahoo and Google) out pretty soon.
Impending Recession for Paid Search?
How did I miss this post by Steve Rubel? Tired of doomsaying in the Web 2.0 bubble realm, he recently predicted an impending recession for poor old Google, based on several factors.
Live Search Team Improves Product Searches
Back in October, LiveSearch introduced a feature called “New and improved product results in Web search“, thorugh this users could have more product information and informed decisions. Now, the official Live Search blog has a post called, “Summarizing user reviews for computers and electronics” which finds, analyzes and summarizes reviews from across the Web in […]
Northeastern Sues Google Over Search Patent
Northeastern University has sued Google in the patent-friendly federal court for the Eastern District of Texas, accusing the search giant of infringing upon its work.
Satisficing, Bounded Rationality & Search
Herbert Simon came up with some pretty interesting concepts, among them satisficing, bounded rationality and chunking.
People Search is Getting Social
Wink.com says they’re the largest people search engine in the world. But to me, they look like a people meta-search engine, pulling their information from the web at large as well as from MySpace, LinkedIn and other people search engines. Now they’re expanding their site to include profiles.
For once, the connection between a product (the people search website) and a social network actually made perfect sense to me: you can “claim” your profile in search results, then add to it or modify it.
Microsoft Issues Free Enterprise Search Challenge
Search Server 2008 Express arrived as a free download from Microsoft, which launched the release candidate during a California conference.
Google Advanced Search Spam Poses Threat
A sample of a spam message making the rounds demonstrated how someone used a Google URL, with advanced search operators, to send people to a fake retail site. It could be much worse.