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MSN vs. Google
Take a drive down the musical road with Current Virals today! We've got the latest PC ad, No Country for McLovin, and much more on today's list.
To watch the full versions of all five videos just click on the links in the comments section below. Take a drive down the musical road with Current Virals today! We've got the latest PC ad, No Country for McLovin, and much more o... more -
MSN vs GOOGLE - Search engine rap battle
Search engines rap. That's right. And they trade nasty punchlines.
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Week In Search News: Satellite, Picasa 3.0, Life Before Google
Search engine news from around the web this week. Google's tenth birthday, Satellite, and Picasa 3.0
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Take Control of Your Search with BOSS
Yahoo! announced a new API service called Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS), allowing you to do just that. Yahoo! Search BOSS is: a Web services platform that allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search. It allows companies of all sizes to develop a customized search service. Yahoo! announced a new API service called Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS), allowing you to do just that. Yahoo! Search BOSS is: ... more
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3 Unique Search Engines of the Future
The internet is a whole lot of nothing without a search engine or two. While the staying power of search engines has never been in question, it's been interesting to see how they've evolved to the point of replacing the address bar. With more information being published on the internet and different filters for interpreting this information being created, here's a look at a our picks of unique search engines that are making headlines and changing the way we search.
Viewzi
There's no question that Viewzi is a search engine of the future with a host of visual features. Viewzi is a visual search engine that's only gotten better since its initial public launch. What makes Viewzi so unique is the various visual viewing options that are available for users to view their search results. From the album and mp3 search view for music, to the 3D Photo Cloud and Celebrity Photo views, there's something for everyone with Viewzi.
SearchMe
Listed as one of Time magazine's best websites of 2008, SearchMe is a slick search engine with an advanced and intuitive interface. Search results are displayed as a gallery of images that allows you to see the page without having to click-through. Do a search on "Obama" and SearchMe will note that you're probably referring to the future presidential candidate Barack Obama. In doing so, SearchMe will present you with several related categories to narrow your search such as Politicians, Democratic Party, US Government, and Political News. SearchMe also provides users with the option to create stacks, or bundles of web pages saved for later. This is a highly unique search engine of the future. The internet is a whole lot of nothing without a search engine or two. While the staying power of search engines has never been in que... more -
Google launches search engine suggestions
Nearly four years in development, Google today finally rolled out its Search Suggestions product to the main page of Google.com. Suggest started as a 20% project and was launched on Google Labs in December 2004. The feature “graduates” from Labs and will be rolled out to users over the next week or so (I can’t see it yet on Google Australia).
Since launching the project on Labs 4 years ago, Google has launched the search suggest service slowly on some of its other services including the Toolbar, Firefox search box, and YouTube. What took Google so long in bringing it to the homepage? According to Search Engine Land: quality control. “Quality is very important to us, and since so many people visit the Google.com homepage, we wanted to make sure to evaluate and refine our algorithms to provide a good experience using Google Suggest,” a Google rep told SEL.
Search suggestions is actually an area where Google lags behind the competition. A few other search engines had search suggestions when Google began their Suggest project in 2004, and Yahoo! rolled out a major upgrade to their search suggestions, called Search Assist, about a year ago. Yahoo!’s product is actually arguably still a bit more complete than Google’s offering. Nearly four years in development, Google today finally rolled out its Search Suggestions product to the main page of Google.com. Sugge... more -
Diagroogle: when nature calls and you're on the go
"We've all been there; walking around downtown or driving somewhere unfamiliar, and suddenly the urge strikes and nature calls. The trouble is, the area is completely foreign, so finding a place to relieve yourself might be problematic to say the least. Sure, you could look for familiar stores or shops that you know have public restrooms, but Diaroogle wants to save you from having to hold it until you get somewhere you already know. Just open your mobile phone, surf over to DIaroogle, and search the closest street name or address to find a suitable place to answer nature's call. "
Potty 2.0 "We've all been there; walking around downtown or driving somewhere unfamiliar, and suddenly the urge strikes and nature cal... more -
Conservative States Lead U.S. Searches For Perverse Topics
An analysis of global sex trends as determined by search engine metrics. Breaks down who's-searching-for-what in the world of sex. An analysis of global sex trends as determined by search engine metrics. Breaks down who's-searching-for-what in the world of sex... more
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Parallax semantic web browser actually understands what you want
Staff researcher David François Huynh has created an interesting tool for browsing semantic database Freebase, called Freebase Parallax. Written up by ZDNet's Oliver Marks, the video Huynh recorded demonstrating Parallax will knock your socks off. The idea is to allow you to apply multiple filters for your searches and embed live charts in a blog. It's a beautiful idea, check out the video.
This ought to work. Freebase has taken more than $50 million in venture investments, they have a small army of volunteer and computer scientist contributors, they've got robots pumping their database with information automatically. There are now 60% more articles in Freebase than there are in English Wikipedia.
For an alternate view see Alex Iskold's Freebase: Dispelling the Skepticism, and some fault here may lay in the coolness ratio of the video to the Parallax app. Staff researcher David François Huynh has created an interesting tool for browsing semantic database Freebase, called Freebase Paralla... more -
Viewzi 3D web navigation is the future
A very intuitive visual 3D image browser - Viewzi is a new way to experience search. Instead of one big list, you get nice visual Views tailored for the content you are looking for.
You just need to search for a word and click on 3D Photo Cloud View to see it in action. You can then add as many words as you like by clicking where you want to place them.
Another great 3D navigation experience created with Papervision 3D.
Update - Viewzi launches timeline view:
http://mashable.com/2008/08/08/viewzi-timeline-view/ A very intuitive visual 3D image browser - Viewzi is a new way to experience search. Instead of one big list, you get nice visual View... more -
Cuil Can't Even Find Itself
I thought $33 million in funding would actually buy you something, but the Cuil.com search engine CAN'T EVEN FIND ITSELF! As of yesterday typing "Cuil" into the search engine did not return a link to Cuil.com. The blogosphere has been buzzing about how incompetent they are, and apparently they are trying to do something about it. Today they can find themselves on the keyword "Cuil", but if you type in "Cuil com" they still cannot find themselves.
You've got to see this search engine before they close it down. Seriously, type "Jesus" in the Cuil.com search pane and witness the crazy set of results that you get. Their number one result is JesusDressUp.com. "Simply drag the items to Him with your mouse and they'll snap right into place".
Hopefully Jesus will forgive them. I thought $33 million in funding would actually buy you something, but the Cuil.com search engine CAN'T EVEN FIND ITSELF! As of ... more -
Definitive Proof that Cuil is NOT Cool
The most common complaints so far are downtime, inaccurate and incomplete search results, and the fact that images displayed with search results are often not related whatsoever. Here are a few of the biggest gaffes I’ve seen so far. The most common complaints so far are downtime, inaccurate and incomplete search results, and the fact that images displayed with sear... more
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Former Googleers unveil Cuil, a new search engine
A start-up led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.
Cuil Inc (pronounced "cool") is offering a new search service at http://www.cuil.com that the company claims can index, faster and more cheaply, a far larger portion of the Web than Google, which boasts the largest online index.
The would-be Google rival says its service goes beyond prevailing search techniques that focus on Web links and audience traffic patterns and instead analyzes the context of each page and the concepts behind each user search request.
"Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user," Tom Costello, Cuil co-founder and chief executive, said in a statement.
Danny Sullivan, a Web search analyst and editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, said Cuil can try to exploit complaints consumers may have with Google -- namely, that it tries to do too much, that its results favor already popular sites, and that it leans heavily on certain authoritative sites such as Wikipedia.
"The time may be right for a challenger," Sullivan says, but adds quickly: "Competing with Google is still a very daunting task, as Microsoft will tell you."
Microsoft Corp, the No. 3 U.S. player in Web search has been seeking in vain, so far, to join forces with No. 2 Yahoo Inc to battle Google.
Cuil was founded by a group of search pioneers, including Costello, who built a prototype of Web Fountain, IBM's Web search analytics tool, and his wife, Anna Patterson, the architect of Google Inc's massive TeraGoogle index of Web pages. Patterson also designed the search system for global corporate document storage company Recall, a unit of Australia's Brambles Ltd
The two are joined by two former Google colleagues, Russell Power and Louis Monier. Previously, Monier led the redesign of ecommerce leader eBay Inc's search engine and was the founding chief technology officer of two 1990s Web milestones, AltaVista and BabelFish, the first language translation site.
"They do have the talent that is used to building large, industrial-strength search engines," Sullivan says of Cuil.
Cuil clusters the results of each Web search performed on the service into groups of related Web pages. It sorts these by categories and offers various organizing features to help identify topics and allow the user to quickly refine searches.
User privacy is another appeal of its approach, Cuil says. Because the service focuses on the content of the pages rather than click history, the company has no need to store users' personal information or their search histories, it says.
"We are all about pattern analysis," Patterson says. "We go over the corpus (Web pages) 12 times before we even index it."
DOES SIZE MATTER, ONCE AGAIN? A start-up led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search lead... more -
Week in Search News: Yahoo! rejects Microsoft…again, Ask.com joins Photobucket
Last week in news from the search engine industry. Hot topics include more talks between Yahoo! and Microsoft and Ask.com making a deal with Photobucket. Last week in news from the search engine industry. Hot topics include more talks between Yahoo! and Microsoft and Ask.com making a dea... more
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Yahoo rejects joint proposal from Microsoft, Icahn
Yahoo! Inc., owner of the second-most popular search engine, rejected a restructuring proposal by Microsoft Corp. and billionaire investor Carl Icahn that would have included the sale of Yahoo's search business to Microsoft.
Yahoo's advertising agreement with Google Inc. offers ``superior financial value'' to the proposal from Microsoft and Icahn, the Sunnyvale, California-based company said in a Business Wire statement today.
Icahn has criticized Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang for failing to close a deal with Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker. Microsoft, which on May 3 withdrew an offer to buy Yahoo, said on July 7 it may renew talks for a deal if Icahn, who controls about 69 million Yahoo shares, succeeds in ousting Yang and his board.
``Carl Icahn and Microsoft presented us with a `take it or leave it' proposal,'' Chairman Roy Bostock said in the statement. ``It is ludicrous to think that our board could accept such a proposal. We will not be bludgeoned into a transaction that is not in the best interests of our stockholders.''
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Full story at link by Kyung Bok Cho// Bloomberg.com Yahoo! Inc., owner of the second-most popular search engine, rejected a restructuring proposal by Microsoft Corp. and billionaire inve... more -
Feds Going After Google & Yahoo; Antitrust Probe Opened
Google and Yahoo officials have said since the deal's announcement that they would delay its implementation for a voluntary Justice Department review. But a formal investigation signals that the department may have found some cause for concern.
Lawyers familiar with similar investigations said that the kind of legal requests being issued by the Justice Department in this case - "civil investigative demands" - are not used for routine matters. Google and Yahoo officials have said since the deal's announcement that they would delay its implementation for a voluntary Justi... more -
Google Trends now works for Web sites too
Google Trends, a service Google started two years ago to track searched-for keywords, has unveiled a new tool for inquiring minds looking to find out more on any given site. Like tracking services Compete and Alexa which use tool bars to grab user data, Google Trends now lets you pop in specific domains and compare basic traffic information about any .com site (or .tv, .biz, .net, and so on) using nothing more than organic user searches.
Included are daily traffic numbers in users (sent from Google search), where in the world the users are coming from, and related sites that were either searched for or visited in that same session. All of this information is color coded, and up to five sites at a time can be pitted head-to-head, with bar graphs and charts for each.
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Full story at link by Josh Lowensohn// CNET Networks/WebWare.com Google Trends, a service Google started two years ago to track searched-for keywords, has unveiled a new tool for inquiring minds look... more -
Week in Search News: Google Trends, Cashback, & More
News from the search engine industry last week.
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When Google met Yahoo!
From the report:
Yahoo! has agreed to let Google put search ads -- advertisements placed next to search results -- on its site in what it described as an $800 million annual revenue opportunity that would boost cash flow by $250 million to $450 million in the first 12 months. From the report: ... more
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