Category: search engines

The new Google interface to Usenet has Atom feeds for every newsgroup (add /feeds to a group URL) and features membership more prominently, with shortcuts such as favorites groups and… Read more »

Since John Battelle is hyping it like the new slicebread and everybody is getting excited, let me throw a few links from my archives, just follow the trail: Creating a… Read more »

Gary is the guy [*]. See what he listed in March. Among others, this patent was granted to Microsoft: Retrieval of relevant information categories. [*] A previous version of this… Read more »

Considering Google’s latest lame redesign and new “features” – they removed the tabs, are testing a personalization scheme that no normal human being will bother activating, and a did couple… Read more »

Since I read this phrase for the first time today, here’s what it means: "Latent semantic indexing adds an important step to the document indexing process. In addition to recording… Read more »

ResearchBuzz: "Vivisimo offers their clustering in a search engine which finds eBay auctions. You can check it out at http://vivisimo.com/ebay" I tried it a couple of times, if your query… Read more »

In light of this BusinessWeek article published two years ago, it’s impressive (if a bit premature) to see Google’s founders now touted as billionaires in Forbes. Back in October 2001, Google… Read more »

After quickly reading through Search Beyond Google, I wonder whether any search engine looks at subsequent queries within the same web browsing session to see whether you’re trying to refine… Read more »

I didn’t see it in action yet, but I probably didn’t pay enough attention to notice.