TAG: search
RSS, Feed, and Weblog Crawler APIs . . . "Why write your own spider when you can just use ours?"
Facebook Profiles Will Appear in Google Results Next Month
"Facebook is announcing Public Search Listings today, meaning profiles will be searchable through Facebook, and soon turn up on Google, Yahoo and MSN Search."
Mozilla Firefox Custom Search Engines
"Create custom search engines for your Firefox Search Bar."
"In the past 12 months, Google doubled its staff, tinkered with its search engine to speed up results, and now answers more queries than Microsoft and Yahoo combined. But there’s one query we had to answer ourselves: How does Google work?"
Tags: google visualization search technology
The best search engine for icons
Ask.com VP of Marketing explaining the new algorithm campaign by Crispin + Porter.
Tags: marketing advertising search
You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well
"In the age of Google, being special increasingly requires standing out from the crowd online. Many people aspire for themselves -- or their offspring -- to command prominent placement in the top few links on search engines . . . "
Tags: search culture identity names trend
Predicting American Idol winners with search.
Tags: search television trend culture analytics
From Vertical To Universal To Holistic
"To tackle this challenge, marketers need to pursue a holistic approach that involves optimizing for all of Google's vertical services."
Google is now showing the hottest trends for the day . . . interesting way to see what's going on at the moment.
Tags: google internet trend culture search
"YouTube was the beginning of the end of old Google and the beginning of new Google."
Tags: youtube google innovation search
"Tonight Google launched MyMaps. It adds the ability to create and share maps directly from Google's site."
Tags: google maps mashup search
Digesting Google's New PPA Advertising Product
Wow. Google has finally added a pay-per-action product. The marketing world is going to change very soon.
Tags: adsense advertising google marketing search
I Know What You're (Collectively) Thinking, Planning
"How long before the collective search terms of a company can be used to sufficiently predict the products and services they next bring to market?"
Tags: attention business search future identity privacy
"Recommendations are based on your search history, ratings and viewing patterns. We filter out the videos you mark as "not interested" as well as videos you have recently watched."
Tags: google attention video search recommendation
A look at the differences between the top searches of the year on Yahoo!, AOL and Google.
Tags: search google yahoo aol lists 2006
The Reccomendation Market: Consumers must get some value
"The value that the consumer--the actual creator of this value--gets is...better recommendations . . . I think a company could go extremely far by shuffling some of that value back to the consumer."
Tags: attention recommendation search
Satellite images + words = Hours of fun
Tags: google photography search visualization fun
NoahBrier.com Engine to the Center of the World
Thanks to Google Co Op.
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What portion of Google's revenue is Search versus Contextual?
"Google derives about 78% of its advertising revenue from Search, and the remaining 22% comes from other sources, primarily Contextual."
Tags: google business search advertising money
A checklist for organic and paid search
"The ACCM Search Marketing Intensive session titled “Integrating Your Organic and PPC Search Marketing: A Checklist for Merchants� provided a look at best practices as well as a list of what not to do."
Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities
"In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action."
Tags: design internet blogs search attention web2.0
Book Sales Get a Lift from Google Scan Plan
"Publishers are starting to report an uptick in sales from Google Inc.'s online program that lets readers peek inside books, two years after the launch of its controversial plan to digitally scan everything in print."
Tags: books copyright google search business
"Welcome to Google Image Labeler, a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results."
Tags: google collaboration tags search annotation
"My son (a second grader) chimed in that Google was good for finding stuff you needed to know about, while Yahoo! was the place you go to find pictures, play games, and check your email."
Great, Now They'll Never Give Us Data
"In practice we’re nowhere near understanding how to usefully depersonalize this kind of data. That’s an important research problem in itself, which needs its own datasets to work on."
Tags: attention search aol privacy
Next Search Wave: It's What you do with the Data
"Certainly, it is valuable to be able to compare prices from several carriers. But all that is presentation of data. The use of that data? That represents a significant, disruptive breakthrough. This is the way search engines should be thinking."
Tags: search innovation internet
Thought Fashion: Are You In or Out?
"is your digital identity your personal intellectual property?. . . And by extension, is your clickstream a personal expression (carefully chosen and shaped by you)? In other words, can you copyright your clickstream and exert ownership?"
Tags: attention privacy search
Search the entire AOL data dump. "This includes over 20 million search queries from 658,000 of AOL's users. Apparently 658,000 AOL users are estimated to be around 1.5% of the total Google search population."
Tags: privacy search attention
"Last week, AOL revealed three months' worth of people's web searches -- and the data is oddly fascinating."
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"The great Internet search engine is still no match for the passion and expertise of a wise human being"
Tags: internet search connectedness
Google Launches ValueClick Killer
"In other words, Google is launching a fully-fledged cost-per-action  otherwise known as affiliate marketing  network."
Tags: google advertising search
Ubiquitous Blurbs: The Future of Search
What happens when searches crosses over from the computer and enters the 'real world'?
Serendipity casts a very wide net
"It is no accident that technology commentator Bill Thompson believes that the web does a lot to promote chance discovery"
Tags: culture search technology serendipity
"From what I have found, below are the current top 400 higest paying Internet search keywords as of May 23, 2006 that I could find using Google’s AdWords tool."
Tags: search advertising adsense google
Can We Please Kill This Meme Now
"Thanks to the connective nature of hypertext, and the blogosphere's exploratory hunger for finding new stuff, the web is the greatest serendipity engine in the history of culture."
Tags: internet culture networking search
25 Things I Learned on Google Trends
"To give you a sense of its tremendous power for tapping into the world psyche, here are 25 things I learned on Google Trends. Someone should start a blog on this kind of stuff."
Tags: trend google search statistics
Look at historical data of how much people have searched for specific terms over time. Graphs the whole deal out. Pretty sweet.
Tags: google trend search research
"The new browser includes a search box in the upper-right corner that is typically set up to send users to Microsoft's MSN search service. Google contends that this puts Microsoft in a position to unfairly grab Web traffic and advertising dollars . . . "
Tags: search software microsoft google browser ie
Understanding Google: Exclusive look at a JupiterResearch report
"Jupiter warns that Google's insularity and intense focus on organizing consumers' information may not scale."
Tags: research google search advertising
Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them
Thinking about the effect of people who don't know what they need to know on information architecture.
EasyUtil Recommendation Service
"EasyUtil Recommendation web service provides a web API to make recommendations in the format of "people who liked this item also liked those items"." I'm not sure I completely understand that, but it sounds good . . .
Tags: search recommendation api
"It's turning into what Julian Bleecker calls a 'Theory Object,' which is an idea which is not just a mental idea or a word, but a cloud of associated commentary and data, that can be passed around from mouse to mouse, and linked-to."
Tags: things google language search
Ten Tips to the Top of the Search Engines
Jill Whalen: "Having a website that gets found in Google, Yahoo, and MSN, etc. isn't hard to do, but it can be difficult to know where to begin. Here are my latest and greatest tips to get you started."
How Old Media could take back its share of search's ad bounty
David Berkowitz, a friend of mine, gives his search predictions for the coming year.
Tags: predictions 2006 search
Google launched their personalized search trends page that even lists what other people who share your search interests searched for themselves. Number one thing people like me searched for: "blowfly alarm clock."
"Googling here of course returns an ordered list. A list of the most popular web plugins it turns out. Adobe Acrobat comes in first."
Yotophoto is the first and only internet search engine for finding free-to-use stock photographs and images
Tags: photography free design search
How the founders of a hot young photo-sharing site are helping to change the focus of the search engine giant -- and turning its fight with Google into a battle of man vs. machine.
Tags: business yahoo flickr search photography community web2.0 posted
"With MonitorThis you can subscribe to 15 different search engine feeds at the same time. Enter a search term and click the 'make monitor.opml' button to get a list of rss feeds in OPML format."
Tags: aggregation search rss posted
Steve Rubel: "This illustrates the gap they can narrow by getting more involved in the dialogue by having a blog."
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Mycroft search plugin for The Hype Machine
Nice easy way to search for MP3s straight from Firefox.
Tags: firefox search music mp3 free posted
A search engine where "Del.icio.us users bookmarking helpful/timely URLs (as evidenced by others subsequently bookmarking those URLs) have greater influence on search rankings."
Tags: del.icio.us tags search posted
"Onlife is an application for the Mac OS X that observes your every interaction with sofware applications such as Safari, Mail and iChat and then creates a personal shoebox of all the web pages you visit, emails you read, documents you write and much more
Tags: apple free search software visualization productivity posted
With RSS
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Wired takes a look at just how A9 pulled off block-view
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Press release from Feedster talking about the new ability of AOL portal users to customize their homepage with RSS feeds. Score one for Feedster.
Tags: rss aol search trend posted
Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year
Tags: internet search yahoo interviews posted
Google Information for Webmasters
Google explains how to get yourself listed and ranked on their search engine.
Tags: search google howto seo reference tutorial posted
Waxy.org: "By collecting aggregate information about bookmarked sites, they'll be able to increase the relevancy of their search results and marginally combat the spam problem."
Tags: search tags yahoo del.icio.us bookmarks posted web2.0
Why adsense for feeds is a bad idea (at least for now)
"don't clobber your biggest fans with pitches to ads and instead relegate ads to areas where it might help people find more information or related products."
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The worlds largest BitTorrent tracker
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Google's War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders
"Hierarchical Folders have dominated info organization since they first appeared over 40 years ago. But in industry after industry, a strange thing is happening: hierarchy is under severe attack, and even dying out."
Tags: google internet microsoft search hierarchy postmodernism posted
A VC: On Google, "But I don't understand how all of these new web services have anything to do with their core business of targeting advertising via search and contextual advertising."
Tags: business google search innovation posted starbucks
Online advertising is becoming a serious rival to the traditional sort. Google’s new advertising service could make the internet an even more valuable marketing medium
Tags: advertising internet google search marketing posted
Enter a subject and this page tells you what that is ... umm... I guess you'd better just try it out :) Note that the results are not randomly generated in any way! Take your time to browse the results and you might be surprised how accurate this thing ca
Tim Bray Asks The Right Question (And I Try To Answer It)
“Are there any questions you want to ask, or jobs you want to do, where tags are part of the solution, and clearly work better than old-fashioned search?�
Tags: tags search del.icio.us posted
Shortucuts and power features
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How "search" is redefining the Web  and our lives
Seattle Times: "When search engines can change the lives of pastry chefs, a technology transformation clearly is under way. These online guides were once merely the means to a destination, the robots that could quickly fetch a site from the Web haystack."
Tags: search marketing mobile google internet posted
A bittorent site
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A Whole New Way to Look at Cell Phones
Tags: mobile search visualization deals posted
The largest job database on the planet
Tags: business search tools jobs posted
A great way to find housing listed on Craig's List using the Google Maps interface
Tags: nyc search maps craigslist google posted
Check the rankings of any webpage in Google
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Michael Gartenberg: "In an age of hundreds of gigs of info, users don't need to spend hours and hours organizing their data to be able to find it again. "
Tags: search apple os osxtiger posted
Firefox search plugin for Audioscrobbler
Now you can search Audioscrobbler from the search bar in Firefox
Tags: firefox search music plugins
The story of how Yahoo! pulled itself back into the search game
Tags: search yahoo business advertising posted
A BitTorrent search engine
Tags: bittorrent search tools
Why don't authors put their indexes online? A book index is a perfect example of something that is much more efficient with a search function.
Tags: ideas books internet search posted
Mining the Web is only part of it. The search giant faces growing pains and fierce competition.
Tags: business google search innovation posted
Picking Up Where Search Leaves Off
The time-saving trend of "tagging" is luring legions of Web surfers -- and Yahoo!
Tags: business del.icio.us flickr search tags trend yahoo posted
Guardian: "Yahoo isn't just back in the game - it's winning. How weird is that? "
Tags: yahoo search google innovation business posted
Search everything related to April Fool's Day
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Enhances Searching with Firefox
"Now Google's faster than ever on Firefox and Mozilla browsers. When you do a search on these browsers, we instruct them to download your top search result in advance, so if you click on it, you'll get to that page even more quickly."
Tags: firefox google search posted
Type in a search term and we'll show you the Max Bids and listings for that term.
Tags: business marketing search yahoo posted
Google Desktop Search: Download Plug-ins
Welcome to the Google Desktop Search Plug-in Download page. Google has not tested or verified the features or security of the third party software listed on this site.
Tags: google search software plugins needsafeed
Ummm . . . yeah
Tags: google marketing search needsafeed
Trendmapper is a tool to generate historical data from search engines.
Tags: visualization search tools posted
Interview with the Search Engine
SatireWire: "Jeeves of AskJeeves.com granted SatireWire Editor Treat Warland the opportunity to actually interview a search engine."
A handful of blog-evangelists, a couple of key buys and some libertarian friendly moves have turned Yahoo from a dot.has.been to the new darling of the chattering classes.
Tags: yahoo google business search posted
Travel search that searches over 100 different sites for the best fares available
Tags: deals search travel posted
New Search Tools for Del.icio.us
A few different search bookmarklets for del.icio.us
Tags: del.icio.us search tools posted
An evolving framework for accessing and
Tags: lifehacks software apple search tools
Search for artists across Amazon, Flickr, Feedster and more
Tags: search posted amazon flickr
GQ article about Google
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The search engine that searches for all things Doogie Howser
Tags: funny google search posted
This comes according to Napsterization . . .
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Ask Jeeves to acquire Bloglines?
What could this mean for those investing in Ask Jeeves?
Tags: investments search rss
A new editable search engine
Tags: socialsoftware search posted
John Battelle talks about the new A9 Yellow Pages
Tags: search innovation posted
A9's new Yellow Pages includes pictures of the address in major metropolitan areas. Also allows you to browse the pictures in a way that looks like walking up the block.
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Follow On No Follow: Will "Fully web-expressed writing" Suffer?
John Batelle considers the effects of nofollow
Tags: search blogs spam posted
John Battelle's talks about 17 things he thinks will occur in 2005
Tags: blogs innovation search
Students shun search for information offline
Go to Google, search and scroll results, click and copy.
As you type, Google will offer suggestions.
Tags: google innovation search
Why HP has purchased tens of thousands of search terms
A Top Exec Explains New Marketing Visions at AdTech
Try CantFindOnGoogle.com
Another new search engine
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Some thoughts on A9 and the future of search applications
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Using A9 Brings Discounts at Amazon.com
I haven't seen this yet, but if it's true it's an interesting approach
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It sounds like it's got some cool features but it's hard for me to break the habit of just searching Google with it built into the browser
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Amazon to Take Searches on Web to a New Depth