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Inquisitor Joins the Yahoo! Search Team
Date : 2008 05 09 Category : Yahoo Yahoo! Search BlogLast year, Yahoo! Search launched Search Assist to help users find what they're looking for quickly and easily by providing query suggestions and related concepts in real-time. Today, Yahoo! Search is embracing the Mac community and offering similar search assistance features with the acquisition of Inquisito read more »
Design patterns for accessible, crawlable and indexable content
Date : 2008 05 09 Category : Google
Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by T.V. Raman, Research ScientistAs a follow-up to my previous posts on accessibility, here are some design recommendations for creating web content that remains usable by the widest possible audience while helping ensure that the content gets indexed and crawled.Avoid spurious XMLHttpRequests Pages t read more »
A Yahoo! SearchMonkey on the Semantic Web
Date : 2008 05 08 Category : Yahoo Yahoo! Search BlogOn Nodalities blog today, Paul Miller posts his podcast interview with Peter Mika, a SearchMonkey from Yahoo! Research. Peter's speaking at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose May 18-22, so the two dove into what Peter will be presenting on as well as the innovation and direction behind SearchMonke read more »
SearchMonkey Launch Party -- May 15
Date : 2008 05 08 Category : Yahoo Yahoo! Search BlogTwo weeks ago, we announced SearchMonkey, a new open developer platform that lets developers and site owners use semantic markup and structured data to enhance Yahoo! Search results and make them more useful, relevant and visually appealing. We wanted to remind you that we're kicking off this launch in tru read more »
Facebook Overtakes Myspace
Date : 2008 05 07 Category : Alexa
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Sitemaps offer better coverage for your Custom Search Engine
Date : 2008 05 06 Category : Google Official Google Webmaster Central BlogRajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager, SearchIf you're a webmaster or site owner, you realize the importance of providing high quality search on your site so that users easily find the right information.We just announced today that AdSense for Search is now powered by Custom Search. Custom Search (a Google-p read more »
More than a pretty face
Date : 2008 05 06 Category : Msn
Live Search's WebLogAlong with the release of our new search experience, we'd like to give some background into the design team and process that went into all the changes you see. You might not immediately think of design as being a critical part of a search product, but we think it is, and we have a growing team of designers, r read more »
A Safer Way to Search
Date : 2008 05 05 Category : Yahoo Yahoo! Search BlogToday, we're announcing the beta release of SearchScan, a new feature from Yahoo! Search that helps protect users from viruses, spyware and spam. We've heard from users that security and privacy continue to be major concerns when they are online. We've also learned that solutions that require downloads and read more »
Answering your questions on QnA
Date : 2008 05 01 Category : Msn Live Search's WebLogWe've introduced our "Renaissance" release of Live Search QnA Beta. Our re-birth signifies the beginning of a new set of features that we'll continue to grow. We had three goals for this release: Focus on the QnA experience for new users. Encourage users to discover content and functionality in new ways. Hi read more »
xRank™ Musician — better than top 40 night at the disco
Date : 2008 05 01 Category : Msn Live Search's WebLogJust when you thought we'd stop at Celebrities, we now bring you (drum roll, please) Musicians! xRankTM provides much more than just a way to track search trends — it's much more than that — it's a social commentary. With xRankTM Musicians we bring you the "mob's view" on what's shaking up the m read more »
Better Bookmarks for Firefox 3
Date : 2008 04 30 Category : Yahoo Yahoo! Search BlogThe del.icio.us team has been working on a new beta add-on for the also-still-in-beta Firefox 3 to give users easier and quicker access to information. While maintaining full compatibility with the previous add-on for Firefox 2, the latest version offers a few new features, which they've detailed in their pos read more »
New Product Search gives you more options
Date : 2008 04 30 Category : Msn Live Search's WebLogWith the recent update of the Product Search experience (http://search.live.com/products/), users can both research and find deals on products within Live Search. We've incorporated feedback from our users during the beta cycle and revamped the user experience, so now users can search and refine products by u read more »
Shop and search on the go
Date : 2008 04 28 Category : Msn Live Search's WebLogWe've just released the latest updates to our browser-based mobile search at m.live.com. One of our major efforts was to bring the power of product search to the convenience of a mobile phone. Think about how much time people spend shopping in brick-and-mortar stores — without the ability to do the pro read more »
Start Monkeying Around
Date : 2008 04 24 Category : Yahoo Yahoo! Search BlogIn February, we began talking about our plans to open up Yahoo! Search to Web site owners and all third party developers. This new developer platform, which we're calling SearchMonkey, uses data web standards and structured data to enhance the functionality, appearance and usefulness of search results. Specif read more »
News Search – now with RSS
Date : 2008 04 24 Category : Msn Live Search's WebLogYou wanted it, and now you have it. We've incorporated RSS feeds into the browse and search results experience. Subscribe and stay up to date with stories from all categories or for specific searches that you perform. We appreciate all the feedback that you've given us. We take it all seriously and do our bes read more »
xRank™ Celebrity — check out who’s hot and who’s not!
Date : 2008 04 24 Category : Msn Live Search's WebLogThose of you who search for stuff related to celebrities in your spare time raise your hands. C'mon now, don't be sheepish about it — we know the numbers, and we know you do it because we do it, too. Here's a thought. What if we could rank who you and all other Live Searchers like to search for? And th read more »