Search engines battle
Grok Headline matches for Search engines battle
Googling for Dollars: Search Engines
battle for big market
Googling for Dollars: Search Engines
battle for big market
11/02/2003 07:38 PMSAN FRANCISCO : Software giant Microsoft's reported bid to take over
Internet search king Google has highlighted the high-stakes battle
mounting over the ...
Search Engines: A Mixed Bag: A Review of
Some New Search Engines
Search Engines: A Mixed Bag: A Review of
Some New Search Engines
08/04/2004 06:17 AMSearch Engines: A Mixed Bag: A Review of Some New Search
Engines by Phil Bradleyhttp://www.ari
adne.ac.uk/issue40/search-engines/People are of course
aware that Google isn't the only search engine out there, by any
manner or means, and although many people regard it as the biggest and
the best, this certainly isn't the case for those organisations who
decide that they want a share of the search engine market.
Phil
Bradley looks at some of the new search engines that have
appeared, and will see how many of them make the grade. Reviewed
are:
Euroclips: The Definitive European
Directory
YouSearched: The Accessible Web Search
Ujiko
A9
When Search Engines Become Answer
Engines (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
When Search Engines Become Answer
Engines (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
08/18/2004 10:40 AMWhen Search Engines Become Answer Engines .. Jacob Nielsen's
Alertbox
useit.com/alertbox/20040816.html
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When Search Engines Become Answer
Engines
When Search Engines Become Answer
Engines
08/17/2004 01:20 PMSource: useit.com - The website is becoming a less prominent locus of
experience as people use search engines to bring up answers to their
current questions. How can sites cope with masses of freeloaders?...
Access 90 Search Engines’ Results With
Firefox’s Search Box
Access 90 Search Engines’ Results With
Firefox’s Search Box
03/17/2005 03:02 AMTurboScout.com launches a Firefox extension which empowers over 27
million Firefox users to access original results from more than 90
search engines with just a click. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]
"About Search
Engines:HypertextNode:WebTech Search:"
"About Search
Engines:HypertextNode:WebTech Search:"
12/15/2003 10:29 PMMore search engines?
More search engines?
09/26/2004 08:34 PMNetNewsWire’s
search engine subscriptions feature works with
Blogdigger,
Daypop, and
Feedster.
These search engines work with NetNewsWire because they return feeds
(RSS, in this case) that NetNewsWire can read. Are there other search
engines that return RSS or Atom feeds? It would be cool to add more.
Search Engines Know More Than You Think
Search Engines Know More Than You Think
06/05/2005 11:58 PMWhat's New at the Search Engines
What's New at the Search Engines
07/21/2004 09:07 AMSource: SearchDay - Representatives of Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and
Looksmart offer an inside glimpse of recent developments at the major
search engines....
War of the search engines
War of the search engines
11/02/2003 07:38 PMMicrosft's failed attempt to buy Google is another sign of the growing
popularity of the privately-owned king of search engines. ...
Top 10 Search Engines
Top 10 Search Engines
05/29/2004 07:36 PMnetforbeginners.about.com-13 hours ago ... and employing 50,000
volunteer experts as editors, the ODP (DMOZ.org) has about 4 million
links in its database -- less than a tenth of 1% of Google's
database. ...
3-D Search Engines
3-D Search Engines
04/16/2004 11:45 AMResearchers develop 3-D search
engine: Are their search engines that match pictures? If I had,
say, a picture of a certain building (with NO metadata), could a
search engine find me pictures that looked the same? That'd be
nifty.
...computing researchers have developed new search engines that can
mine catalogs of three-dimensional objects, like airplane parts or
architectural features.
All the users have to do is sketch what they're thinking of, and
the search engines can produce comparable objects.
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Search Engines 2
Search Engines 2
09/11/2004 07:07 AMSearch Engines 2http://www.search-engines-2.co
m/Looking for a search engine or web directory? Search
Engines 2 offers over 12,500 links to local, regional, national, and
foreign internet search engines, web directories, pay per click search
engines and meta search engines, many of which accept free/paid web
site submissions and advertising. Nice site by Michael Wong. This has
been added to the tool section of
Research Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the
search engines section of all
2004-05 Internet
MiniGuides.
Search Engines 201
Search Engines 201
09/13/2004 04:17 PMSource: SearchDay - Want to dive deep -- really deep -- into the
technical literature about search engines? Here's a road map to some
of the best web information retrieval resources available online....
Search engines take the stand
Search engines take the stand
05/13/2004 06:23 AMJudges are turning to Google and other search engines to check facts
and look up information in cases--a trend that has some legal experts
worried.
Search Engines: What's the Difference?
Search Engines: What's the Difference?
05/13/2004 06:24 PMYahoo! Google and Ask Jeeves go toe-to-toe in frank discussion of
which technology yields the best results.
The Meta Search Engines
The Meta Search Engines
10/10/2002 09:55 AMI know what you're thinking: Google gives you such accurate results
that you don't need any other search tool. Well, let's see about that.
What’s The Deal With "Other" PPC Search
Engines?
What’s The Deal With "Other" PPC Search
Engines?
03/14/2005 06:29 PMFinding What You Need With the Best
Search Engines
Finding What You Need With the Best
Search Engines
03/22/2005 05:09 PMFinding What You Need With the Best Search Engineshttp://www.philb.com/which
engine.htmFinding what you need with the best search
engines. This is a collection of search engines and similar resources
that Phil Bradley uses on a regular basis when he is looking for
different types of information. It's not an exhaustive list, nor is it
comprehensive. It's a list of what he personally finds very useful.
Phil states that other similar lists exist - he's not pretending that
his is original in concept. You might also want to try the following
resources as well:
http://library.a
lbany.edu/internet/choose.htmlhttp://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/infor
mation/5locate/adviceengine.htmlhttp://www.infopeop
le.org/search/chart.htmlhttp://s
earchenginewatch.com/facts/article.php/2156031This
will be added to
Searching the Internet white paper and resources.
A Brief History of Search Engines
A Brief History of Search Engines
08/16/2004 02:02 PMHaving a good search engine is similar to having the Yellow Pages, a
guide book and a road map all-in-one. But how did the search engine
come into being? To learn more about its orgins, read on. By Lee
Underwood. 0816
Importance of the ODP to Search Engines
Importance of the ODP to Search Engines
02/09/2003 10:57 PMWho can name a major SE that doesn't use the Dmoz data?
On parody search engines...
On parody search engines...
01/22/2004 02:14 AMCompare and contrast: (1) Me making a funny at Google's expense a
couple of years ago: Google Pornfinder and (2) The site recently launched to
help the world find porn (as reported in this Boing Boing entry): Booble.
What next? Should I expect someone to genetically engineer Fifty-foot cat-killing laser-eyed chickens?
Bookmarks Seen by Search Engines?
Bookmarks Seen by Search Engines?
04/07/2005 03:29 PMKids Search Engines
Kids Search Engines
04/13/2005 06:49 AMKids Search Engineshttp://s
earchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156191The
services listed at this site written by Danny Sullivan are designed
primarily to serve the needs of children, either in focus, or by
filtering out sites that some parents and teachers might find
inappropriate for kids. These usually include sites that deal with
explicit sexual matters, porn sites, violence, hate speech, gambling
and drug use. This will be added to
Reference Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the
search engine section of
2005 Internet
MiniGuides.
Search Engines Likely Have Your Number
Search Engines Likely Have Your Number
01/05/2004 08:02 PMCHICAGO -- There's a growing search engine apprehension stemming from
popular tools like "Google," which are bringing privacy concerns to
the forefront. ...
Microsoft Looks At Other Search Engines
Microsoft Looks At Other Search Engines
11/04/2003 04:48 PMZuperDee writes "It looks like Microsoft is now looking for another
search engine to buy. They are looking at Ask Jeeves and Looksmart,
but they recently ...
Search Engines -- The Future
Search Engines -- The Future
04/13/2004 06:11 AMSearch Engines -- The Future by Gary H. Antheshttp://snipurl.com/5o0uMost information junkies would be hard-pressed to name
anything that has transformed their professional lives as much as
Internet search engines have. The miraculous devices can take your hot
topic of the day, scan millions of Web pages and in seconds bring back
product announcements, research papers, the names of experts and
more—things that would be difficult or impossible to find otherwise.
But as powerful as they are, search engines have huge weaknesses. For
example, a recent Google search on the word Linux took just 0.4
seconds, but it had 95 million hits. Too bad if the one you need is
No. 10,000 on the list. But researchers are poised to revolutionize
search technology over the next few years.
Microsoft : what is next for search
engines?
Microsoft : what is next for search
engines?
08/30/2004 03:44 PMThis week's edition of
The Economist has an interesting piece
in its technology section on search engines. Thankfully, not another
critique of Google / its recent IPO, but at what we might expect of
tomorrow’s search engines. The article talks about research, done by
Microsoft, into search engines that can answer questions.
A very simplistic example of how the technology works is this. Imagine
a search engine homepage with a text box, allowing you to pose any
question - e.g. the question "When was Neowin founded?". The
search engine computers would then take the phrase, break it down and
manipulate it (in terms of structure, tense etc) and then run a search
on that data. The search engine would then return a list of the
results; more intelligent engines could discard many (e.g.
"never" would be discarded) of the results and leave the
users with a list of possible answers (e.g. 4).
The technology is still a prototype, and is currently called 'Ask MSR'
(MS Research).
Bink has a collection of links and papers by MS
researchers on the topic. Technologies like these give search engines
the edge, if, and it's a big if, they work well. Dr Brill, researcher
working on the system, wants to develop something that might give a
fifty word answer to your question (view his research paper -
PDF |
HTML). The Economist notes that the system works
~40% of the time; not bad, but still needing work.
View:
The article @ The Economist |
More links @
BinkRead full story...Latest Search Engines
Latest Search Engines
11/01/2003 07:27 AMOverview of Latest Search Engineshttp://www.ari
adne.ac.uk/issue37/search-engines/Phil Bradley gives us an overview of
emerging, new and newly discovered search engines that we might want
to keep an eye on as they develop. There have been several additions
to the world of search engines over the summer, and he thought he
would do a quick round-up of them to see how they perform.
ZapMeta Netnose Wotbox Meta Search Engines
Meta Search Engines
11/06/2003 05:03 PMManipulating Search Engines
Manipulating Search Engines
03/19/2005 02:23 AMWired has a great article online about Greg
Boser who gets paid to make your website rank higher in the search
engine results. We all know that it’s not as easy to change
rankings as it was 10 years ago, but it still can be done. He
get’s most of his clients through speaking engagements and gets
paid on the results he gets. As he says in the article, “We make
lot more money doing this.” here is some of the comments about
search engines and manipulating them he had to say…
"I could create a blank page without a keyword anywhere
present, or a 404 error message, and if I can get enough sites to link
to it, I could get it to place first on Google," Boser said. But it's
not just quantity, it's quality. Theoretically, Boser could have five
inbound links and end up as the No. 1 result -- provided they
originated from mega sites like Yahoo and MSN. Barring that, 5,000
links from cheesy guest books, online diaries, blogs, zany products,
porn sites and anyone who honors link exchanges might do the
trick… There are other techniques
designed to fool search engines. One consists of cloaking pages by
hiding text in website backgrounds in a way that users won't see but
that targets Google's ranking technology. Another method is link spam,
aka "blog comment spam," in which automated bots plaster ads with
return links on the comments pages of blogs. Most common are ads for
pills, porn and casinos. Finally, there is "search spam," which are
machine-generated pages designed to appear in the engines to attract
traffic (and ultimately increase revenue).
Writing for Search Engines
Writing for Search Engines
03/23/2005 03:23 PMBlog Search Engines
Blog Search Engines
01/04/2004 12:22 AMBig List of Blog
Search Engines: If the only blog search engine you know of is Feedster, then you need to look at
this list.
Click here to comment on this entry
Distributed Search Engines
Distributed Search Engines
08/21/2004 08:15 PM
Distributed Search Engines
Distributed Search Engineshttp://www.openp2p.com/pub/t/74
A comprehensive annodated listing of 31 distributed
search engines compiled by the
OpenP2P organization. This has been
added to
Deep Web
Research Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog and
Grid Resources Subject
Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.
Web search engines have limits
Web search engines have limits
01/27/2003 01:28 AMAccording to one estimate, typical search engines we use, such as
Google or Yahoo!, provide access to only one out of every 500 pages
available on the Web. ...
Irish Search Engines
Irish Search Engines
08/05/2002 10:45 PMA general survey of Irish search engines.
Search engines being recognised'
Search engines being recognised'
05/21/2004 11:16 PMSunday Times South Africa May 22 2004 2:28AM GMT
ODP, The Mother of All Search Engines
ODP, The Mother of All Search Engines
07/22/2002 07:41 AMEvery new search engine that comes along, starts with the ODP as a
seed database. Teoma, WiseNut, Google, Inktomi, Fast, Altavista, and
hundreds of other ses have used the ODP to influence or seed
databases.
Look What The Search Engines Dragged In!
Look What The Search Engines Dragged In!
04/15/2005 03:49 PMA month ago, we had a post called
Naked
Women And Wireless Security, which I started out by noting: "Yes,
I'm a bit worried about what kind of people will find this post via
Google in a few days..." Apparently, I was right to be worried.
Someone posted a comment saying that we were the #2 result on Google
for
naked women (we're number 4 as of this posting). In
checking over Techdirt's traffic logs, we realized that we were
getting a lot of traffic from that search... and also from MSN where
it turns out we're (as of this posting) the number
one search
for
nake
d women.
As a few of us here were chuckling over the somewhat random influx of
confused search engine driven visitors, someone dropped us a bit of
feedback reminding us of an old post where we mentioned
the various oddities we saw in people who found specific stories
via Google, and asked us to revisit the subject. Like many sites,
obviously, we get a fair amount of traffic from search engines (mainly
Google) on completely random searches. Many of the people who visit
are (I assume) well meaning -- but confused to the nature of what
they've stumbled on. Perhaps it's an interface issue on our part, but
the ensuing comments and conversations are often amusing.
The all time record holder, which keeps getting updated is this
conversation (mostly of people who are not well meaning) from
1999 on someone
who was stealing AOL passwords. It appears that somewhere (no
idea where) there's a search that people are doing on how to steal AOL
passwords, and they're driven to this particular posting -- which now
has a ridiculously long comment thread from clueless folks trying to
break into AOL accounts, and a bunch of scammers trying to steal their
AOL passwords back. Then, there's the VPR
Matrix support thread. When Best Buy announced their own computer
line under the VPR Matrix brand name, we were skeptical. However, our
post made it to Google, and people apparently began to think that it
was the VPR Matrix support/fan forums. We also had a brief claim to
fame in 1999 when the first news was leaked that CBS was going to have a
show called Survivor. For a while, we were the top result on
Lycos (which was still popular then) for "CBS Survivor" leading people
to try to get on the show by posting comments right here at Techdirt.
Another popular one (and I don't know how people are finding this one)
is a story we had from 2000 about some random dot com millionaire who
planned to give
away millions to educational causes in Central America. For some
reason, people who are down and out on their luck have found this page
and continually comment (there were two comments yesterday, even)
begging for money from this guy -- as if he was reading the forum.
This particular posting has also resulted in a number of random emails
(no explanation included) to Techdirt's feedback line, explaining
horrible life stories and begging for money. While we'd love to help
people out, we're not dot com millionaires, and aren't really in a
position to make much of a difference.
Anyway, this is all a nice little reminder that the various search
engines are still far from perfect when it comes to understanding what
people are really searching for. In the meantime though, it provides
us a bit of amusement, as we ponder what people searching for porn
must think as they stumble upon Techdirt.
Grok Description matches for Search engines battle
GrokA matches for Search engines battle
Edit the Scripts menu scripts with one
click
Edit the Scripts menu scripts with one
click
01/05/2005 10:36 PMFunkDaddy: "I wanted to look at the code of an AppleScript in the
Scripts Menu. Normally, I would have to do this by navigating to the
script in the Finder and opening it in Script Editor. But I took a
wild guess and Option-clicked on the script in the menu, and it opened
in Script Editor directly! This makes tweaking my frequently-used
scripts really easy."
Replacing Perl Scripts with PHP Scripts
Replacing Perl Scripts with PHP Scripts
11/26/2002 05:12 AMWith the introduction of version 4.2, PHP has started supporting a
new SAPI (Server Application Programming Interface) called CLI
(Command Line Interface). This facility was introduced to help
developers create small shell applications (scripts) with PHP. So, now
you can kiss Perl goodbye forever. -- Jayesh Jain
Hear hear. Thanks to my influence, other developers at Natsoft are
using PHP for their batch scripts too. Hmm maybe it is because they
report to me...
"zeldman.bang"
Use folder action scripts on a shell
scripts folder
Use folder action scripts on a shell
scripts folder
05/03/2004 10:44 AMRecently I purchase a book called "Wicked Cool Shell Scripts" by Dave
Taylor, and it is full of exactly that, cool shell scripts. Having not
done a whole lot of shell scripting before, I thought it would be good
to pick it up...
The Cheat 1.0
The Cheat 1.0
12/24/2003 09:22 PMGeneral game cheater for Mac OS X.
The Cheat 1.1
The Cheat 1.1
03/08/2004 11:26 PMA universal game trainer for cheating games.
How to Cheat the Pharmacy
How to Cheat the Pharmacy
09/16/2004 11:15 AMCheat on me and the sex vid goes live
Cheat on me and the sex vid goes live
08/13/2004 10:53 AMRevenge is a dish best served online
IT cheat sheets for all
IT cheat sheets for all
04/18/2005 11:40 PM“06 Apr 2005 | WhatIs.com They may seem like no-brainers to you,
but some of your IT tricks and workarounds look magical to your peers.
We’ve collected our favorite IT cheat sheets on topics ranging
from AS/400 to HTML and Outlook so that everyone can look like a whiz.
If you have a favorite (original please) cheatsheet or shortcut, send
it along to editor@searchsmb.com and you’ll be eligible to win
our Cheater’s prize: A $50.00…
Direct and Related Links for 'IT cheat sheets
for all'
How to cheat with XML schemas (XML.org)
How to cheat with XML schemas (XML.org)
08/19/2002 08:04 PMGPG Cheat Sheet
GPG Cheat Sheet
01/17/2004 10:41 PMhttp://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/~lockhart/gpg/gpg-cs.html
A Quick'n easy gpg cheatsheet
Web-cheat student to sue university
Web-cheat student to sue university
05/28/2004 05:09 PMThey should have stopped him sooner, he says
Cheat Sheet: Biometrics
Cheat Sheet: Biometrics
04/20/2004 11:15 AMSilicon.com Apr 20 2004 3:53PM GMT
G4TV Cheat Database
G4TV Cheat Database
03/06/2004 01:51 AMI don't watch much TV, but I do watch G4TV's Cheat (and Judgement Day,
and Icons...) Didja know they have an online cheat database? Yup, you
don't even have to...
iTunes Pepsi Cheat
iTunes Pepsi Cheat
02/18/2004 06:52 PMCheat Sheet: 3G - in all its flavours
Cheat Sheet: 3G - in all its flavours
08/04/2004 01:32 PMsilicon.com Aug 4 2004 5:27PM GMT
Google Cheat Sheet
Google Cheat Sheet
03/14/2005 05:53 PMGoogle Help: Cheat Sheet...
1,118 cheat tax system through Net sales
1,118 cheat tax system through Net sales
03/22/2005 03:23 PMDaily Yomiuri On-Line Mar 19 2005 11:12PM GMT
Camphone used to cheat on exam
Camphone used to cheat on exam
05/12/2004 11:16 PMJeopardy - The stupid cheat
Jeopardy - The stupid cheat
08/11/2004 11:56 AMAlthough I hadn't watched Jeopardy in maybe 20 years, a couple of
weeks ago I watched a few featuring Ken Jennings, the million-dollar
smart guy. Very impressive. And it struck me how they're cheating...
Watch some reruns before Jennings was on. The questions were much
easier. Having dumber questions favors any contestant who is
outlandishly smarter than the others. So, while it's not quite
cheating, it does tilt the board toward Jennings and lets him run up
$50,000 daily totals leaving the other contestants with nothing but a
snapshot of Alex Trebeck and a tune they can't get out of...
Asus says Jake the PEG a feature, not a
cheat
Asus says Jake the PEG a feature, not a
cheat
08/05/2004 02:31 PMMotherboard maker Asustek said that its PEG (PCI Express Graphics)
link mode, competitor Gigabyte described as "a cheat"
earlier this week, is really an outstanding feature that makes its
competitors "marvel". Asus said PEG "is a unique
feature that enables users to boost graphics card performance for
superior video quality".
The P5AD2 Premium and P5GD2 Premium Asus mobos "received
unparalleled testing reviews from world renowed IT media", said
Asus. "Many competitors marveled at how the two new Asus
motherboards achieved such excellent results," Asus continued in
a press statement. "Marvelled" isn't exactly how Gigabyte
put it. It claimed that PEG Link Mode "clandestinely overclocks
the frequency of memory and core engines of ATI based PCI Express
graphics".
View:
Gigabyte accuses Asus of cheating
News source:
The
InquirerRead full story...TV quiz cheat loses his appeal
TV quiz cheat loses his appeal
05/19/2004 11:53 AMMajor Charles Ingram must pay the financial penalties for trying to
swindle TV's Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
"Web-cheat student to sue university |
The Register"
"Web-cheat student to sue university |
The Register"
05/30/2004 08:58 AMInternet cheat student wants to sue
varsity
Internet cheat student wants to sue
varsity
05/30/2004 01:23 PMIOL May 30 2004 5:25PM GMT
Cheat Sheet: The Computer Misuse Act
Cheat Sheet: The Computer Misuse Act
07/01/2004 01:40 PMSilicon.com Jul 1 2004 5:18PM GMT
Cheat Sheet: The Mini iPod
Cheat Sheet: The Mini iPod
04/09/2004 04:09 PMTHe low down on this year's must-have gadget. By Will Sturgeon,
Silicon.com (via MyAppleMenu)
Google Search Cheat Sheet
Google Search Cheat Sheet
03/26/2005 06:56 PMWebProNews Mar 26 2005 11:11PM GMT
Cheat Sheet: Grid computing
Cheat Sheet: Grid computing
01/05/2005 02:03 PMsilicon.com Jan 5 2005 4:57PM GMT
UK pub quiz text cheat scandal
UK pub quiz text cheat scandal
05/05/2004 12:53 PMMost certainly not cricket
Italy School Foils Cheat
Italy School Foils Cheat
06/18/2004 10:08 PMTechzonez Jun 19 2004 2:21AM GMT
The Sims 2 / TS2: Console and Cheat
Commands
The Sims 2 / TS2: Console and Cheat
Commands
09/12/2004 12:19 PMTech-Recipes Sep 12 2004 3:05PM GMT
Search engines battle
