Ok, so the New York Times doesn’t exactly get Google’s top algorithm execs to tell us how the search engine calculates search results, but they do get fresh insight as to how Google decides to update it’s technology.
The article includes interviews with Amit Singhal, Matt Cutts and Udi Manber.
Insights include details of Google’s internal system for evaluating search queries, called Debug.
Palore Give Local Search Some Color
It looks like the Israel-based browser plug-in maker has taken some advice from last fall to heart, and made the information they can provide more easily accessible to users of local search.
Google Book Search Tool May Madden Microsoft
Everyone knows that Google and Microsoft are rivals, but the first area of competition that comes to mind does not involve books. Nonetheless, the two appear to be at it again, and it seems as if Google is readying a new tool for attack.
AOL Local Search In Beta 2
AOL Local Search Beta 2 helps users find a local business or location by following three steps.
Search Engines Support Revolution Health
The Revolution Health website is, in some ways, like many others; it calls itself “a free, comprehensive health and medical information site, specifically designed with the Family’s Chief Medical Officer – women and other caregivers – in mind.” But Revolution Health is actually doing well, thanks largely to Google and Ask.
Search Engine Diversity – More Website Exposure
"Google ranking this and Google ranking that"… it’s all everyone talks about. But a recent report by Infospace highlights the need for online businesses to focus their search engine optimization efforts across more than just Google.
MSFT Live Search Books Adds Copyrighted Material
I’ve come to think of book search as Google’s specialty – there have been weeks in which the search engine giant made as many as two or three separate announcements about its various literature-related projects. Yet Microsoft’s also in this game, and the Redmond-based company has just expanded its Live Search Books collection.
Truveo Shows Video Search Upgrades
Mahalo To Curate Web Search
Substantial buzz has accompanied Jason Calacanis’ startup debut of Mahalo, a search site with human editors refining the results for the currently 4,000 top search terms.
“Mahalo To Curate Web Search”
New Google Image Search Categories
Last week a Google engineer told us “The next big thing for image search would be the ability to search based on visual concepts, such as a picture of a house on a mountain with a river in front of it.” And now, Google Images allows you to restrict your search to a specific category – albeit in an “unofficial” mode only – and one of these categories may well be powered by actual image recognition (as opposed to textual keyword analysis). Right now, the available modes are (at least) the following: