Powerset, a company that focuses on “natural language search,” recently discussed its to-be-released-in-September search engine, and there’s some very interesting stuff going on. Very interesting, and very hard to understand.
Hotels Reserve Space In Yahoo Search
Yahoo has enabled some travel assistance within its search results for people looking for hotels at a vacation destination.
Exanet Releases “Enterprise Search Solution”
This is a mouthful, but here we go: Exanet has described itself as “the leader in software-based, clustered enterprise Network Attached Storage (NAS).” Now, with that out of the way, the easy part (and the real news): Exanet has launched ExaSearch, an “enterprise-class search engine.”
Yahoo Image Search Incorporates Flickr Photos
Flickr is owned by Yahoo, and now the two operations are closer than ever- photos from Flickr have been integrated into Yahoo Image Search.
User Reviews’ Effects On Sales And Search Results
To a business, user reviews can be a valuable asset. They can also be quite a risk – what if the reviewers don’t like your products or services? Yet, as usual, knowledge is power (unless you know that you’re screwed), and so here are four things to realize when it comes to user reviews.
Search News Flash: People Like Free
Close to four percent of all search queries last week contained the word "free." Is this an indicator of a plummeting economy? Hitwise’s Bill Tancer says it’s just how people work.
Google Extends Lead in Search
The latest search share report (qSearch analysis) by ComScore presented no major surprises, with search engine giant Google forging further ahead, and would-be competitors falling further behind. Overall, search continued its remarkable growth, increasing over 11 percent from May 2006.
Microsoft Testing Mobile Voice Search
A leaked .cab file reveals Microsoft is working on a Bluetooth-enabled voice search application for Windows Mobile.
Killer Video Search Engine (ClipBlast)
I’ve been looking for a great video search engine that includes all the videos that I’ve done. I’ve been to Dabble, Blinkx, YouTube, MeeVee, Truveo, and others. None have all my videos with the latest videos represented.
Mahalo – Search Results Inside Search Results?
So I was just reading a post by Graywolf about the Mahalo blog giving out nice free links to sites they would never include in their own search results for being to ’spammy’ and started poking around the new human search engine.