Category Archives: Search Engines
Built Your Own Search Engine: The 4 Personality Types Model
Building a custom search engine in your own expertise area may seem a trivial task. However, most of the data you need to create this special search engines is tacit knowledge. For example, one of the basics of building a custom search engine is assembling a list of websites in your chosen topic. However, assembling […]
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Google Social Search; the Lost Update
Can you imagine there being a change at Google that pre-dates Panda, (and subsequent incarnations) the +1 button, the attribution algo updates and few if any in the SEO world had noticed? I mean, it makes one helluva trivia question don’t it? Not as much fun as; What does Archie comics have to do with […]
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Topical Search at Your Fingertips
Back in 2005, topical search was the driving force behind many startups. With qualities like relevancy and targeted audience, topical search engines quickly became the desired object of general search companies like Google or Microsoft. Today, nearly every big search engine incorporate some sort of vertical search in its own interface (e.g. search wikipedia or how […]
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Find Numerical and Statistical Data with Zanran (Search Start-up)
Zanran is an interesting search start-up that both indexes and maps the numerical content-finding ‘semi-structured’ (as they put it) data on the web. Such data could be a graph in a PDF report, a table in an Excel spreadsheet, or a bar chart shown as an image on an HTML page. Currently, the search engine […]
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Find Numerical and Statistical Data with Zanran (Search Start-up)
Likeonomics: How Facebook Is Changing Online Business
Likeonomics (n.): The study of how affinities and passions affect the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The Keyword Made The Web What it Is You might not realize it, but the way Google works has shaped the web for the last 10 years. Think about it for a second… How many new […]
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Google Now Switches Languages for Us
As you may know, I’m Ukrainian – which means when I do searches on the internet, I use two languages: English (mostly) and Russian. This also means I’m constantly shifting back and forth between the two languages. All this switching inevitably leads to many instances where I’ve forgotten to swap to the intended language before […]
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Stay.com: Searching for Mr. Good Travel
Norwegian travel startup Stay.com, was the proverbial “toast of travel town” at the end of last year. Moreover, judging from today’s release of their version 2.3 Beta, it looks as if the Scandinavian startup is ramping up for some more accolades for 2011. While Version 2.3 is not a Noah’s Ark of online travel exclusivity, […]
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Bing Adds a Destination Comparison in Travel Search
Bing may not have the biggest portion of the market (in fact, being generous, they have about 10%), but the group they have is fiercely loyal. Why? Is it the National Geographic images on the home page? Is it the dedicated loyalty to any Microsoft product? Is it how memorable the name “Bing” is? We […]
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