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Media: Google Search By Image
Contributed by Rick DeVan on July 25, 2011 at 7:01 am ET
Search by image with Google.
And… to placate the inner geek in you, here is how it works.
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Media: Twitter Search Upgraded
Contributed by Rick DeVan on June 2, 2011 at 8:27 am ET
Resource: Twitter Search.
Resource: At 1.6 Billion Queries Per Day, Twitter Finally Aims To Make Search Personally Relevant via TechCrunch.
Resource: The Engineering Behind Twitter’s New Search Experience via Twitter Engineering.
Twitter is most powerful when you personalize it by choosing interesting accounts to follow, so why shouldn’t your search results be more personalized too? They are now! Our ranking function accesses the social graph and uses knowledge about the relationship between the searcher and the author of a Tweet during ranking.
The above quote is about the only part of the blog post I understand. Let’s just say Twitter search should now give you more relevant results.
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Thriv’Ability: Google Commerce Search 3.0
Contributed by Rick DeVan on March 30, 2011 at 9:49 am ET
Resource: Google Commerce Search 3.0: You won’t believe it’s online shopping.
Today we’re building on the capabilities that have proved useful to our retail partners with the third-generation Google Commerce Search (GCS). With this new version, we hope to help create an even more interactive and engaging experience for shoppers and retailers.
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Yahoo! Search Direct
Contributed by Rick DeVan on March 24, 2011 at 9:23 am ET
Resource: Yahoo! Search Direct
As with Google Instant (Google Instant: Like Screaming at the Microwave ) I tried the new Yahoo! search feature using our current President’s name. I retried the same on Google Instant, too. The results seemed more relevant this time on both, although I prefer the Yahoo! format.
Google Instant does not work with my browser of choice, Opera.
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Statistics: We Like Our Search Engines
Contributed by Rick DeVan on January 6, 2011 at 6:00 pm ET
Resource: U.S. Internet Users Give High Marks to Search Engines via Rasmussen Reports.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 66% of regular Internet users instinctively go online to answer routine questions.
Ah, remember the good old days when you could argue for hours over the capital of North Dakota — Pierre or Bismark? — because no one can keep the Dakotas straight? Gone, forever.
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