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New Feature: Adding Metadata to Search
Results

New Feature: Adding Metadata to Search
Results 03/11/2003 09:43 AM

New Feature: Adding Metadata to Search Results

Ok.  Here's a cool (well I think its cool at least -- let me know if its useless) new thing.  What I've done is added metadata to search results so you can look at a search result and see visually whether that post has:

• Multiple Links
• Any images
• Any mailto links

Why?  What Was I Thinking?

We all surf the net a lot and while we might not be able to remember an exact posting, we tend to be able to remember some of its characteristics -- WHEN they deviate from the norm AND if they're visual in nature.  When I think about cool cell phones for example, I'd naturally think of Russell.  But Russell has written so much on cell phones that if the search result can tell me "Has 5 pictures" then I can get a rough feel if this might be the posting.  Similarly if I'm looking for a post where I remember that it had a mailto link then I can now tell from the search results.  Now both mailtos and pictures are still somewhat uncommon in blog posts so I start the count on those from 1 (i.e. I'll display their count if there is at least 1).  But we assume that blog posts have at least 1 url always so I only show urls when there are more than 1 (which might not be the right thresh hold / is 5 better).

Sound silly?  Here are some examples:

• 1st query result has 2 links
• 1st query result has 32 links and 3 mailtos

Should It Stay or Should It Go Now?

Let me know if this is worthwhile or simply featuritis and should be eliminated (and yes that means that The Clash is playing now on my iPod).

Glitch at MSN Drops Looksmart Results

Glitch at MSN Drops Looksmart Results 02/06/2003 11:30 PM
Apparently random glitches at MSN have resulted in the dropping of Looksmart directory listings at times.

LookSmart Posts Disappointing Fourth
Quarter Results

LookSmart Posts Disappointing Fourth
Quarter Results 02/01/2005 09:15 PM
"... LookSmart did not properly deploy sufficient sales resources in the fourth quarter and we are obviously not satisfied with this outcome," stated Chief Executive Officer David Hills."

Feedster Powers RSS and Blog Search
Results for Eurekster - News Search
Expands the Scope of Search Engine
Powered by Social Networking Technology

Feedster Powers RSS and Blog Search
Results for Eurekster - News Search
Expands the Scope of Search Engine
Powered by Social Networking Technology 09/16/2004 03:28 AM
Feedster, Inc., the first company to utilize RSS feeds and weblog content to enhance broad web search, today announced that it will power RSS and blog search results for Eurekster, the first and only Internet search engine powered by social networking technology. By integrating Feedster’s news search technology and RSS feeds, Eurekster now provides its users and subscribers with an expanded search solution containing new sources of information and data beyond traditional Web search. [PRWEB Sep 16, 2004]

BT Openworld in new search deals after
Looksmart exit

BT Openworld in new search deals after
Looksmart exit 02/10/2003 12:07 PM
Starting today, the ISP will use Google as the search facility on its home page alongside paid-for results supplied purely by commercial retrieval firm Overture ...

LookSmart Launches Vertical Consumer
Search Sites

LookSmart Launches Vertical Consumer
Search Sites 03/29/2005 08:09 PM
Search Engine Guide Mar 30 2005 12:43AM GMT

LookSmart Buys Furl -- The Search
Stickiness Battles Are On

LookSmart Buys Furl -- The Search
Stickiness Battles Are On 09/23/2004 03:21 AM
Well, look at that. Just yesterday, we were pointing out how Ask Jeeves was adding features to store and annotate the websites you like and asked if people wouldn't just prefer to use an independent offering like Furl, rather than be tied down to a specific search property. Whoops. Forget we said that. Furl has just announced (no news sites have it yet, but we're including the text of the email after the jump) that they've been acquired by Looksmart, the also-ran paid-search, paid-inclusion search engine provider. So, this is yet another search provider trying to increase stickiness by letting users do more with their search results. They're also offering five gigs of storage. If you hadn't realized it yet, this space is getting more interesting every day.

BT LookSmart Adds Wisenut To Search
Directory Service

BT LookSmart Adds Wisenut To Search
Directory Service 11/04/2002 04:48 PM
Looksmart completes integration of WiseNut search index.

LookSmart CEO to Speak at Search Engine
Strategies 2004 Conference & Expo

LookSmart CEO to Speak at Search Engine
Strategies 2004 Conference & Expo 12/17/2004 06:28 PM
Market Wire Dec 14 2004 9:13PM GMT

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 AM
TurboScout.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]

Feature in search of a DLA

Feature in search of a DLA 08/02/2004 04:24 AM

Oh yes did I forget to mention that OpenEvents needs to happen? - soon!

I'm so tired of these single feature supposed products - without social networks, personal publishing - just sitting there, all by themselves. Do they think that by including RSS - they're hip and tuned in?

I wonder?

Without friends - this product is absurd.

Anyway - here's Roland's post that I found out about this lovely feature - I mean product.

Now if only this would work seamlessly with iCal it would be even better.

From RSSCalendar .com - Product Overview:

QUOTE

RSSCalendar is an exciting new way for individuals and organizations to share their calendars with family, friends, and colleagues - utilizing the latest in "Really Simple Syndication" (RSS) technology, including RSS channel creation and aggregation. Not only is RSSCalendar easy to use but it is also easy to administer, and setup is a snap.

UNQUOTE

[Roland Tanglao]

Roland's right though - it certainly needs to support iCal and it certainly is simple.

New Roogle Feature: Search Metrics

New Roogle Feature: Search Metrics 03/11/2003 09:43 AM

New Roogle Feature: Search Metrics

If you go to the Searches tab, you can see the search metrics, top ten hits, # of indexed documents, etc.  Not yet an RSS feed (I have it working but the feed doesn't validate for reasons that escape me).  [_Go_]

DockFun! 4.6 offers new search feature

DockFun! 4.6 offers new search feature 06/18/2004 04:53 AM
Donelleschi has released DockFun! 4.6, a major update to the utility that allows users to configure and use an infinite number of different Docks in Mac OS X...

Google Adds New "Search by Number"
Feature

Google Adds New "Search by Number"
Feature 12/15/2003 09:24 AM
Google is now offering five ways to search for discrete types of classification numbers -- UPS tracking numbers, FedEx tracking numbers, FAA airplane registration numbers, patent numbers, and FCC equipment identification numbers. Three of these numbers require the use of...

Google exploring print search feature

Google exploring print search feature 12/19/2003 11:30 AM

Leading Web search engine Google is exploring a new feature: searching print materials . This beta test allows publishers to submit text content, which would available for users' keyword searching (and purchase), then flagged as being offline print.

This idea is reminiscent of Amazon's recent full-text search .

(thanks to Steven Kaye )

Ask Jeeves Launches New Product Search
Feature

Ask Jeeves Launches New Product Search
Feature 11/06/2003 05:03 PM

Feature Highlight: FeedDemon Search
Channels

Feature Highlight: FeedDemon Search
Channels 05/08/2004 07:35 AM

FeedDemon's sear ch channels are dynamic feeds which use an online search service to look for items containing specific keywords, providing an efficient way to track what people are talking about without having to subscribe to additional feeds. For example, I have a search channel which lets me know when people are blogging about my software.

FeedDemon enables choosing from popular RSS search engines such as Feedster, Daypop and Blogdigger, but you're not limited to just these ones. If you'd like to find out how to extend the set of FeedDemon's search services, just visit Oskar van Rijswijk's blog.

The Legality Of Amazon's Search The Book
Feature

The Legality Of Amazon's Search The Book
Feature 11/11/2003 10:32 AM
Who better to discuss the legality of Amazon's new full text search feature, than a copyright lawyer who is also an author? Over at News.com, Doug Isenberg points out that if you happen to do a search on the system of "fair use" and "internet", you'll actually get the passage from his book describing how one of the determinants of whether or not something is fair use is how it impacts the sales of the book. So, while he's was a bit surprised, as an author, to find out his entire book was online via Amazon, it's probably perfectly legal. In fact, he says that the publishers probably do have the right to make that call (no matter what the Authors Guild says), though he admits that almost no one probably thought about this potential use of their work when they signed their publishing deal.

Group: Amazon Book-Search Feature
Changed

Group: Amazon Book-Search Feature
Changed 10/31/2003 11:49 PM
AP via Daily Press Oct 31 2003 11:28PM ET

Google Introduces Book Search Feature
Beta

Google Introduces Book Search Feature
Beta 12/17/2003 10:38 PM
BeSpacific Dec 17 2003 9:55PM ET

Amazon jams print feature on book search

Amazon jams print feature on book search 11/05/2003 03:40 PM
You can "Search Inside the Book," but the e-tailer, prompted by complaints made by an authors' group, will no longer let you print pages found by using the service.

Google turns a new page with book search
feature

Google turns a new page with book search
feature 12/24/2003 08:16 PM
Google, the search engine, has ripped a page out of Amazon.com’s book, debuting a way for people to search through text that was once exclusively located ...

Google's Turns a New Page With Book
Search Feature

Google's Turns a New Page With Book
Search Feature 12/21/2003 12:03 AM
Washington Post Dec 20 2003 10:22PM ET

Better search results than Google?

Better search results than Google? 01/05/2004 12:19 PM
CNN Jan 5 2004 10:58AM ET

Save search results in 10.3

Save search results in 10.3 04/08/2005 11:58 AM
I don't know if everyone knows this, but it wasn't documented as a shortcut in the Finder menu bar ... pressing Command-T while doing a search from the Finder's toolbar, or after finishing a search, the Finder will create a f...

Better Search Results Than Google?

Better Search Results Than Google? 01/05/2004 04:11 PM
Mechanik writes "CNN has an AP article about the next generation of up and coming search tools, which try to cope with the glut of hits that result from ...

The Inevitability of Search Results as
RSS

The Inevitability of Search Results as
RSS 09/10/2004 02:12 AM
Tim Bray, in reporting on a visit to an Intelligence Technology gathering said: They’ve also done something way cool with their Google appliance; one of the bright geeks there has set up a thing where you can subscribe to a search and get an RSS feed. Well, duh. Anyone could fix up one of those using the Google API, I wonder why Google isn’t supporting this already? I can't help but to laugh because at this point we all know...

"Put these search results on your site]"

"Put these search results on your site]" 09/22/2004 08:23 AM

In Search of Good Results

In Search of Good Results 07/05/2004 07:46 AM
In Search of Good Results
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1002877

A recent survey by FIND/SVP found that 84% of business executives queried thought Web searches using commercial search engines took longer than they should because they tended to deliver too many irrelevant results, resulting in an estimated loss of $31 billion in lost productivity. In addition, 74% expressed doubts that the results were reliable and 39% felt that information found online is outdated. Despite their reservations, 67% indicated it would be difficult or impossible to do their jobs without Web-based search tools, with 28% reporting they spend between 6 and 10 hours a week researching online. The most sought after information was financial information and reports, followed by information on competitors. "The commercial search market is dominated by search engines that must target the broadest consumer audience possible, with the broadest scope of content, in order to sell advertisements for any and every product and service possible," says a META Group VP. "The commercial search market has barely begun to address the untapped demand for highly specialized and screened content and we believe this market is poised for growth in the next three to five years."

Using PHP Includes for MT Search Results

Using PHP Includes for MT Search Results 07/04/2004 03:28 PM

A lot of people want to roll their own search with Movable Type. Us, for instance — Gadgetopia has a two-tiered search system based on whether the search term appears in the title, keywords, or body of the entry (see this post for more information).

Our search is done in with SQL and PHP, abandoning the MT search system completely. The probem with this method is rendering the search results. If you don't use MT, then you lose two things:

(1) Auto-creation of the permalink. The URL isn't stored anywhere in the database, so you have to recreate it. If your URLs are just based on the entry ID, then it's not hard. However, look at our URLs — they're a conglomoration of the date and the entry title. We'd have to create a PHP function to recreate this scheme — and if we ever changed the URL structure from within MT, we'd have to change the PHP function separately.

(2) Text filters. If you're just converting line breaks, the text filter is not so hard to re-produce. However, if you're using Textile or some other plug-in to filter your text, you're going to have to reproduce that in PHP as well so the previews render correctly.

You can avoid all this, however, by simply using PHP includes and an extra Individual Entry Archive. The result is an elegant solution that blends PHP and MT to eliminate the tedium of recreating MT functionality in PHP.

To do this, create a new Individual Entry Archive in MT called "search_fragment." This template should contain the just HTML to present a single search result. Like this:


<tr class="title">
  <td class="title">
    <a href="<MTEntryPermalink>"><MTEntryTitle></a>
  </td>
  <td class="date">
    <MTEntryDate format="%m/%d/%Y">
  </td>
</tr>
<tr class="excerpt">
  <td colspan="2">
    <MTEntryExcerpt>
  </td>
</td>


Configure this template to generate a file in a "search_fragments" directory named for the entry ID only. You don't even have to add an extention, though you can if you like (if so, you'll need the change the PHP code listed below). So the entry in the archiving configuration would be something like:

search_fragments/<MTEntryID>

Now when an entry rebuilds, it will create two files: (1) its normal archive file, and (2) a search result fragment file called "1", "2", "348", etc. in the search_fragments directory. Notice that since we're using standard MT templates to create the fragment, the permalink will be created by MT, and the excerpt text will be formatted according to the text filter the entry is using.

Now, when you use your SQL to get your search results, just SELECT the entry ID, then spin through those and use PHP to include the matching search fragment file. Like this:


<table>
  <?php
    while ($r = mysql_fetch_assoc($keywordResults)) {
      @include "search_fragments/" . $r['entry_id'];
    }
  ?>
</table>


This will dump the contents of each search fragment file in the table. Since each file contained two rows, the resulting table will be valid HTML. Notice we're surpressing any errors on the inclusion line just in case a file is missing for some reason.

We've be using this system here for months, and it works great.

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Why you should be ignoring your search
results

Why you should be ignoring your search
results 06/22/2005 02:06 AM
Today I’m attending a search engine research workshop run by Brad Fallon in Atlanta, Georgia, and am fascinated by the people here who obsessively track their SERPs (search engine results placement, jargon for what match number you are on Google for a given search term). My part of this workshop is to talk about how blogging can help your search engine placement, but what I’m actually talking about is whether SERP is a meaningful measure… Direct and Related Links for 'Why you should be ignoring your search results'

Merging search results

Merging search results 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Template snippet showing how to merge seearch results from several Movable Type blogs into one ordered list and create friendly suggestions when a search returns zero results.

FEATURE - Search for Web info a gold
mine for Google, Yahoo

FEATURE - Search for Web info a gold
mine for Google, Yahoo 04/17/2005 02:37 PM
Reuters India Apr 17 2005 5:14PM GMT

Personalizing Search Results After The
Fact

Personalizing Search Results After The
Fact 09/15/2004 04:23 AM
I haven't been a huge fan of the concept most people talk about when they discuss "personalized search" which usually seems more like giving up a bunch of private info so that search engines can better target ads for you. However, rather than focus on personalizing the searches before they're done, a few recent announcements suggest there's some potential in personalizing the search results after they've been done. Much of the tech world is focusing on the latest launch of a9, the Amazon.com owned startup that is working on ways to make the search interface better (it's worth noting they don't seem to be doing anything to make search itself better -- but just the interface). One of the new features is that it lets users better handle search results, keeping track of what sites they've clicked on, taking notes, and even "organize" past searches. This sounds quite similar to another (much quieter) announcement, earlier in the day, from a small-time meta search engine named iZito whose meta-search engine lets users organize the results -- "parking" certain results while deleting or minimizing others. This seems like a different way to approach search. Rather than focus on trying to better anticipate what a searcher really wants, both of these moves show that sometimes it's best to let the human doing the searches take control. Give them more of the raw data and shape it into useful results. In a subtle way, it's almost admitting that automated search really can't figure out what a person really wants very easily -- something most people know, but many in the search world don't like to admit.

Remixing Google's Search Results

Remixing Google's Search Results 06/02/2004 11:07 PM
It appears that there are a lot of folks out there who are trying to "remix" Google's interface. The one that got the most press, of course, was A9, who built an entirely new interface to searching Google. Then, there's Prog (formerly Proogle), which adds in PageRank info to Google search results. Now comes the news of an application called MoreGoogle, which tries to add additional features to the Google interface to make it more useful. I haven't tried it (and some folks may be a bit wary to download a random app and let it hijack their Google searches), but the article suggests that the author of the program just wanted to make the Google interface more useful. Once the program is installed, it basically watches over any Google searches, and alters the results to make them more useful: adding in thumbnail images of the website and adding an "open in new window button." The application adds in some new text ads, that appear to be part of AdSense (this isn't clearly explained) in order to get some money back for altering the Google interface. Obviously it would be pretty simple for Google to add these features themselves, and it's unclear how legit this particular app really is, but it's still very cool to see people trying to "remix" Google results to make them more valuable. Of course, there's a pretty good chance that Google's lawyers might not find it as cool.

A9 Offers Search Results From Five
Sources

A9 Offers Search Results From Five
Sources 09/16/2004 01:04 AM
A9, the search engine from Amazon.com, has relaunched its search engine. It now offers search results from several different sources, including the IMDB and of course, Amazon.com. It's available at...

Visualizing Yahoo Search Results

Visualizing Yahoo Search Results 06/24/2005 03:05 PM

Deceptive Advertising in Search Results

Deceptive Advertising in Search Results 03/23/2005 08:11 PM

Visualizing Google Search Results

Visualizing Google Search Results 08/30/2004 01:46 PM
Source: SearchDay - MoreGoogle is a simple utility that enhances Google result pages with thumbnail images and other useful links....
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