CHORUS

CHORUS CHORUS Final Conference presentations can now be downloaded! - 12/12/2009
The presentations from the last CHORUS Conference held on May 26-27, 2009 are available to download here!
CHORUS CHORUS Final Conference Videos are also available! - 12/12/2009
The CHORUS Final Conference videos are now available here!!
4th FP7-FP6 Concertation meeting “The Network of the Future” - 9/29/2009
Cluster Meetings and Plenary meeting planned to be held on September 29th, 2009, in Brussels
CHORUS CHORUS Executive Summary Now Available - 8/6/2009
During the final CHORUS conference on 26/27th May in Brussels, this short Executive Summary regarding the project results was presented to the audience.
Why do we need a Content-Centric Future Internet? Proposals towards Content-Centric Internet Architectures. - 6/24/2009
The aim of this document is twofold: firstly, to report and analyse the main reasons, which support our claim that the Future Internet will be "Content-Centric" and secondly to define two alternative solutions for a Future Content-Centric Internet Architecture following an evolutionary and a clean-slate approach.
The Big Cheese: Powerful Version Of Google Search Appliance Can Grow Exponentially - 6/2/2009
On average, most businesses currently double the number of digital documents they have every twelve to eighteen months. (From Techcrunch by Leena Rao)
Microsoft’s Bing boings into life – early - 6/1/2009
No, you won’t need to go to Google to find Bing – all you need to do is to visit Bing.com where you’ll find that Bing is now in beta.(From iTWire by Alex Zaharov-Reutt)
Real-Time Twitter Search, Hold The “Real-Time” - 5/31/2009
Many believe the greatest potential of Twitter lies in its ability to perform real-time searches of various keywords. So when that functionality is delayed by some 3 hours, as it is right now, and has been throughout much of the night, with no explanation, you can imagine that users are going to get a little annoyed. (From Techcrunch by by MG Siegler)
Confirmed: Microsoft's New Search Engine Is Called 'Bing', Opens June 3rd - 5/28/2009
Steve Ballmer just confirmed rumors that Microsoft's new search engine, previously called Kumo, has been christened with the wonderfully onomatopoeic, possibly stupid name, "Bing". UPDATE: And it's coming next week.(From Gizmodo by John Herrman)
Siri: A Powerful Virtual Assistant For The iPhone - 5/27/2009
A new paradigm for using the Internet is about to begin: Virtual Assistants (VA’s) are coming to a mobile device near you. This week, a stealth startup will demonstrate the first public version of their mobile virtual assistant, Siri. This may mark the beginning of the era of consumer-grade virtual assistants on the Web. (From Techcrunch by Nova Spivack)
CHORUS Topsy Search Launches: ReTweets Are The New Currency Of The Web - 5/26/2009
New search engine Topsy, which has been in stealth development for three years, launches, well, now. Before Google, search engines like AltaVista determined relevance based on how well a web page matched the query.(From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
CHORUS CHORUS Final Conference: 2 days of interesting presentations - 5/26/2009
The third and final conference of the CHORUS project on Multi-Media Search Engines terminated successfully. 100 people from Europe, the US, Japan and Australia participated to interesting presentations and discussions. The conference report will be soon online...
Microsoft Expected to Debut Updated Search Engine at D: All Things Digital - 5/19/2009
The long-awaited upgrade to Microsoft’s search engine will soon make its debut. Sources with knowledge of the situation said the company is expected to demonstrate it at our D: All Things Digital conference next week. (From The Wall street journal by John Paczkowski)
AdaptiveBlue Enhances Sticky Web Browser Companion Glue With API - 5/19/2009
Glue (formerly known as BlueOrganizer), now boasts its own API. Glue is a contextual social networking layer powered by a Firefox browser add-on which startup AdaptiveBlue added to its semantic browsing technology platform late last year. (From Techcrunch by Robin Wauters)
Yahoo Search, As We Know It, Is Over - 5/19/2009
Earlier today, we were at Yahoo’s “End of the 10 Blue Links” event. Basically, it was their state of search gathering, similar to the “Searchology” event that Google had last week. (From Techcrunch by MG Siegler)
Google Search Now Supports Microformats and Adds “Rich Snippets” to Search Results - 5/12/2009
Today at Searchology, Google has launched a search results enhancement called “rich snippets” that uses meta data from web pages (from microformats such as hCard, hCalendar, and RDF) to display additional details (both content and meaning) about pages in the results.(From Search engine land by Vanessa Fox)
Google: Understanding is the next frontier of search; Meet Wonder Wheel, Google Squared - 5/12/2009
Google executives argued that “understanding people, health, communication, education and knowledge” is the next frontier of search.(From ZDNet by Larry Dignan)
Twitter Is Talking Real-Time Link Search, But OneRiot Is Launching It Today - 5/12/2009
There was a lot of buzz last week upon the announcement that Twitter would soon expand its search offering to crawl links tweeted out on top of the tweets themselves. (From Techcrunch by MG Siegler)
Google Launches Search Options, Declares Real-Time Search Biggest Challenge - 5/12/2009
Google has just launched a new “search options” feature on its main search page. (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
What Is Google Squared? It Is How Google Will Crush Wolfram Alpha (Exclusive Video) - 5/12/2009
One of the next frontiers of search is taking all of the unstructured data spread helter-skelter across the Web and treat it like it is sitting in a nice, structured database.(From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
Scoopler: real-time search for social content - 5/11/2009
Scoopler is a brand new real-time search engine that aggregates and organizes content being shared on the Internet as it happens. It launched in Private Beta in April 2009 and in public beta on May 8.(From Pandia Search Engine News)
Search Goes Real-Time With Scoopler. Twitter Dominates Results. - 5/8/2009
There’s a new trend that starting to sweep the web: Real-time. Everyone wants access to information as it happens instantaneously.(From Techcrunch by MG Siegler)
iPhone Searches Longer and More Diverse Than Other Mobile Phones - 5/8/2009
Google has released some information about the search behavior of iPhone users. Many of the searches are longer than 3 words and more diverse than other mobile devices. In fact, many searches are longer than typical computer searches!(From SearchEngineWatch.com by Nathania Johnson)
The 2008 Founders' Letter - 5/7/2009
Since 2004, when Google began to have annual reports, Larry and I have taken turns writing an annual letter. I never imagined I would be writing one in the midst of an economic crisis unlike any we have seen in decades.(From Google blog by Sergey Brin)
Hey @Google - @Twitter To Start Indexing Links For Search - 5/7/2009
Twitter Search is easily the most promising aspect of Twitter.(From Techcrunch by MG Siegler)
Wolfram|Alpha: Our First Impressions - 4/21/2009
The hype around Wolfram|Alpha, the next "Google killer" from the makers of Mathematica, has been building over the last few weeks. (from Read Write Web by Frederic Lardinois)
Hoping To Improve People Search, Google Launches “Profile Results” - 4/21/2009
Ever searched for yourself on Google and come away dissatisfied, especially if someone else you share a name with seems to dominate the results?(From Searchengineland by Danny Sullivan)
Go To Google Similar Images, Hit “Similar,” Find Live Search - 4/21/2009
Yesterday, Google unveiled its new Google Similar Images search feature under Google Labs. (From Techcrunch by by MG Siegler)
Live At The Google Labs Press Event: Real Image Analysis, News Timeline, Labs Reloaded - 4/20/2009
I’m among a mass of press at Google’s San Francisco headquarters for a special Google Labs press event. R.J. Pittman, Director of Product Management, Radhika Malpani, Director of Engineering and software engineer Andy Hertzfeld are presenting. (From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
GetFugu - the next generation in mobile search? - 4/16/2009
From Altsearchengine
New search engne Duck Duck Go has less spam and more content - 4/15/2009
Duck Duck Go is a new search engine with a focus on user experience. It “outgoogles” Google when it comes to simplicity and ease of use. From Pandia Search engine news.
CALL FOR PAPER- ACM Multimedia 2009 Workshop - 4/14/2009
Important Dates: Monday, June 1, 2009 Submission Deadline Saturday, July 4, 2009 Author Notification Friday, July 17, 2009 Camera Ready Deadline Friday, October 23, 2009 Workshop in Beijing Author instructions: Contributions for oral presentations (8-10 pages) poster presentations(2 pages), demonstration descriptions (2 pages) and position papers for selection of panel members (2 pages) will be accepted. Further information including submission guidelines will be published on the workshop website: http://ict.ewi.tudelft.nl/SSCS2009/
Veoh’s Hail Mary: Spreading Video Search Across The Web With Video Compass - 4/10/2009
As video sites on the Web struggle to find a business model that will pay their mounting bandwidth and storage bills, many of them are trying to reinvent themselves. From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld.
Image search engine GazoPa - now on your iPhone - 4/9/2009
(From Altsearchengine)
AP threatens to sue aggregators, search engines - 4/6/2009
Today the AP came out swinging against web sites that post its content without authorization.(From Lostremote by Kent Chapline)
Twitter Embraces Its Inner Search Engine - 4/2/2009
Twitter is a search engine after all — or make that a “discovery engine.” The folks at Twitter are saying that the experiment with integrating a search box into Twitter pages will rolled out with some interesting twists and new dimensions. (From Searchengineland by by Greg Sterling)
Search Suggestions Come To Gmail - 4/2/2009
Google just rolled out a search autocomplete feature for Gmail; If you turn on “Search Autocomplete” from the Labs tab under Gmail Settings, you’ll get suggestions in your search box while you are typing like you do in Google’s search box.(From Techcrunch by Leena Rao)
Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter (Updated) - 4/2/2009
Here’s a heck of a rumor that we’ve sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don’t know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding.(From Techcrunch by by Michael Arrington )
The Financial Times Launches Its Own Business News Search Engine (Newssift). - 3/18/2009
The Financial Times Group, which is owned by the British publisher Pearson, is not exactly the place you’d expect to find the latest search engine. But a startup deep within the bowels of the organization called FT Search is launching one at 8PM ET tonight called Newssift. (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
Aardvark Social Search Service Arrives - 3/13/2009
Aardvark, the secretive, invite-only social search service founded by ex-Googlers that we first mentioned late last year, is preparing to become a little less secretive (the company has changed its name from Mechanical Zoo to Aardvark).(From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
How We Search With The Twitter “Help Engine” - 3/13/2009
Is Twitter a search engine or not? There’s been plenty of discussion and debate about this recently. I’d say yes, in a way. It’s clear to anyone who watches a twitterstream that people put out questions to Twitter similar to how they use search engines. But if anecdotal examples aren’t enough, a survey I conducted last week confirms that Twitter is used as a search resource.(From Searchengineland by Danny Sullivan)
SpeedCine: Search Engine for Legal Movies Online - 3/12/2009
I really like the idea behind SpeedCine, which aims to catalogue all of the movies available legally online in streaming, downloadable, or rentable form. (Anne Thompson blogged about it yesterday.)
New search engine optimization videos from Google - 3/11/2009
Google has definitely discovered that videos is a good way of getting the message across. Here are a few videos that should be of interest for webmasters trying to rank well in Google. The topics are image search, the nofollow attribute and 301 redirects. (From Pandia news)
3 ways to find people on Twitter - 3/7/2009
Twitter search is better than it sed to be, but still, finding people on Twitter is not easy. Here are three ways to find the people you are looking for whether you are looking for old friends or you want to meet new people.
Microsoft Integrates FAST Search with Existing Enterprise Search Offerings - 2/10/2009
Last year, Microsoft acquired Norway-based enterprise search company, FAST search. They also updated their own enterprise search products.(From SearchEngineWatch.com by Nathania Johnson)
R o w d i i - let’s get Rowdii (Firefox Add-on) - 2/10/2009
Rowdii is a revolutionary new web utility that brings search and social media together. At the heart of the service are two innovative functions. (From Altsearchengine)
Ignorant Do-It-Yourselfers & Their SEO Fiascoes: The Real Trouble With Search Engine Optimization - 2/10/2009
A recent rant by John Dvorak at PCMag.com, “SEO Fiascoes: The Trouble with Search Engine Optimization“, has thrown me for quite a loop.(From SEOAly by Alysson)
Eye Tracking - 2/9/2009
I think we as an industry (social media, new forms of digital media) need to do a better job of proving the engagement we all know exists online...(From Johhn Battelle's search blog)
Google Tests Tweaked Search Suggestions User Interface - 2/9/2009
Google Operating System reports that Google is testing a slightly tweaked user interface for their search suggestions.(From Search Engine Land by Barry Schwartz)
Google Tests Tweaked Search Suggestions User Interface - 2/9/2009
Google Operating System reports that Google is testing a slightly tweaked user interface for their search suggestions. (From Search Engine Land by Barry Schwartz)
Google's First Real Threat? Twitter. - 2/8/2009
As Google’s search share approaches 85%, there is constant debate over who could possibly challenge them. Some mighty forces (e.g. Ballmer, Wales, Diller) have aligned against them, but the lead just keeps growing. (From lewmoorman blog)
Why Google Latitude makes us cringe - 2/8/2009
Google launched Google Latitude this week.(From Pandia Search Engine)
Google Sets Its Sights On Your Sight - 2/6/2009
Google has published a bit of an insider’s look on how the company conducts eye-tracking studies to evaluate the effectiveness of its search results.(From techcrunch by Mark Hendrickson)
Google Latitude - 2/6/2009
Over and over, I've written about new interfaces to search.(From John Battelle's blog)
Yahoo Search Pad Uses Search To Help Your Brain Take Notes - 2/4/2009
Yahoo is testing a new note-taking application integrated into search called Yahoo Search Pad. (From Techcrunch Erick Schonfeld)
FriendFeed Cuts Through The Noise With Advanced Search Features - 2/3/2009
FriendFeed has just released a set of new advanced search options, including the ability to filter results by the number of comments and ‘Likes’ each submission has received - a feature that will make it far easier to figure out where “the conversation” is occurring for a given news story.(From techcrunch by Jason Kincaid)
The Challenges Of Tomorrow’s Multimedia As Seen Through The Eyes Of Google, Yahoo, Nokia And Others - 2/2/2009
Part of this year’s ACM Multimedia conference, the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009 aims to collect information on the specific problems and issues companies like Google, Yahoo, Nokia, HP, Radvision and CeWe see arise on the multimedia horizon for the next 2-5 years.(From techcrunch by Robin Wauters)
Musion Eyeliner - Hologram Effect - 2/2/2009
Musion's 3D hologram effect has amazed both clients and audiences alike with the Musion Eyeliner 3D Projection system; a unique, dynamic approach to delivering 3-dimensional holographic effects to new media content. (From Musion)
Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware - 1/31/2009
We’re not quite sure what’s going on, but a couple of minutes ago any search result from Google started being flagged as malware with a message stating “This site may harm your computer”.(From Techcrunch by Robin Wauters)
Connaissez-vous Gilles Poupardin ? Sencities : un moteur de recherches "émotionnel"... - 1/27/2009
On connaissait les moteurs de recherche de type Google, les moteurs de recherche furtif (Workit)... Voilà maintenant le moteur de recherche "émotionnel"... (From Jean Michel Billaut blog)
Veoh Video Compass: A Handy Automatic Video Search Plugin - 1/22/2009
Popular video site Veoh has just released a new version of its browser plugin, Veoh Video Compass. (From Techcrunch by Jason Kincaid)
The Search Engine List, A Comprehensive List of Search Engines You Can Use - 1/19/2009
All-purpose search engines, visual search engines, people search engines...you'll find all these and more in this list of search engines, a comprehensive guide to the best search engines on the Web.(From about.com by Wendy Boswell)
Google leaves Norway - 1/17/2009
Google decides to close down its engineering team in Trondheim, Norway. Pandia takes a look at what this will mean for Google and Norway.(from Pandia Search Engine News)
Why No Twitter Search from the Big Guys? - 1/17/2009
Yesterday, we got a new news search engine which taps into Twitter that Yahoo’s excited about, as it uses their BOSS system. That kind of annoyed me. (From John Battelle's searchblog)
TweetNews: Yahoo Programmer Melds News Search & Twitter - 1/15/2009
TweetNews is a new search engine that uses hot Twitter topics to bring more relevance and freshness to news search. It’s a pet project developed by Vik Singh, a member of Yahoo’s BOSS team.(From Search Engine Land by Matt McGee )
The Brain How Google Is Making Us Smarter - 1/15/2009
Our minds are under attack. At least that’s what I keep hearing these days. Thumbing away at our text messages, we are becoming illiterate. From Discover magazine by Carl Zimmer.
Calculating The Carbon Footprint Of A Google Search - 1/12/2009
That’s exactly what several scientists and researchers tried to do: figure out how much CO2 is emitted from performing a search on Google.(From Search engine Land Greg Sterling )
Yahoo Uses Twitter To Filter The News - 1/12/2009
The microblogging service is already an important source of instant news, and Yahoo is taking advantage. (From Technology review by Kate Greene)
Second Authority-Based Twitter Search Engine Launches: Twithority - 12/29/2008
As bloggers continue to debate the finer points of nothing, yet another entrepreneur has gone out and just built a filtered search engine for Twitter.(From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
The Future Of Social Search (Or Why Google Should Buy Facebook) - 12/28/2008
If you could search your friends’ thoughts, interests, and activities, would that be a better search experience? In many cases, it would be.(From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
Google Gets 70.8% Search Market Share in Compete’s November Metrics - 12/23/2008
A lot of things happened in November related to web activities and which affected the volume of web searches.(from Search Engine Journal by Arnold Zafra)
Twitter Launches People Search - 12/23/2008
This is huge for Twitter. As search becomes totally incorporated into the Twitter interface, the service will hit a critical inflection point.(From John Battelle's Searchblog)
Learn more about search and SEM from Google videos - 12/23/2008
It is a well known fact that Google owns YouTube. Few people know, however, that Google is using YouTube to teach users about their services.(from Pandia Search engine news)
Wishing For The Perfect Search Marketing Tool - 12/19/2008
In The Trenches is a spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition.(From Search Engine Land by Josh Dreller)
ComScore: YouTube Now 25 Percent Of All Google Searches - 12/18/2008
Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter of all Google search queries in the U.S., according to the latest search engine numbers from comScore.(From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
CHORUS CHORUS at EVIA 2008 - 12/16/2008
The Second International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2008), a Satellite Workshop of NTCIR-7 December 16, 2008 (Day 1 of the NTCIR-7 Meeting) National Institute of Informatics, takes place in Tokyo, Japan. Taking this opportunity,Jussi Karlgren, an member of the CHORUS project will talk about the CHORUS gap analysis on User-centered methodology for design and evaluation of multi-media information access systems.
Worio - New kid on the search engine block - 12/12/2008
Worio is a new search engine that uses recommendation technologies to improve the search experience quite a bit.(From AltSearchEngines)
The Twitter Gold Mine & Beating Google to the Semantic Web - 12/8/2008
There's always been jabs at Twitter for not having a viable business model and the chatter has increased in the current economic climate. In a recent interview Evan Williams, Twitter CEO, said "We had planned to focus on revenue in 2010 but that's no longer the case, so we changed the plan quite a bit... We've moved revenue higher on our list of priorities...". (From Techcrunch by Nick Bilton)
Google Introduces Mobile Ads For Android And The iPhone - 12/8/2008
Google is now formatting AdWords text and image ads for Android and iPhone mobile browsers.(From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
Kosmix Raises $20 Million More For Its Universal Search Engine - 12/8/2008
Kosmix, a universal search engine that pulls data from a variety of sources including Wikipedia, Yahoo Buzz and our own CrunchBase, has closed a $20 million round led by Time Warner, with participation from existing investors Accel Partners, Dag Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.(From Techcrunch by Jason Kincaid)
Microsoft takes control of Kumo.com domain – watch out for the Live Search rebrand - 11/23/2008
A few months ago Mary Jo Foley got a tip about some new brand names that were being considered for Live Search. One of these, Kumo, jumped out at us due to the sheer scale of TLDs that had been acquired during 2008, as well as the corporate owner hiding anonymously behind the registrar. Incidentally, Kumo means “cloud” or “spider” in Japanese.(from LiveSide.net)
Google Makes Major Interface Change To Search: SearchWiki - 11/20/2008
We’d noticed an increasing number of people emailing on a large-scale bucket test (a product change tested on just a percentage of total users) that Google has been conducting for months - adding a Digg-like voting feature to search results (which also changes the ranking) as well as user comments.(From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
Is YouTube the Next Google? - 11/18/2008
During the Web 2.0 Summit recently, the Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, pointed out that one of the reasons the world is no longer the same is YouTube.(From ReadWriteWeb by Alex Iskold )
Google Search now does speech recognition on iPhone (Updated Video) - 11/14/2008
Google is really stepping up to the plate with their iPhone apps lately. The New York Times is reporting that Google's updated search app will allow voice-search with results based on location. (From 9to5Mac by Seth Weintraub)
Elevator Pitch Friday: Truevert, The Green Search Engine - 11/14/2008
Getting someone to try a new search engine is not easy. In this Friday’s Elevator Pitch, Herbert Roitblat tries to entice you to try his new green search engine Truevert by asking, “Are you average?” Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live, he contends, give you average results.(From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
What’s Happening in Europe? Check Out Happenr. - 11/12/2008
If you are looking for something to do in Europe, check out Happenr, an events search engine that covers Germany, Ireland, Belgium, and the top 100 cities across the Continent. (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
More Sex Videos For Everyone! YouTube Sells Video Search Results To The Highest Bidder - 11/12/2008
Forget those YouTubevertorials. Google is no longer joking around when it comes to turning YouTube into real business that, you know, makes money. YouTube on its own would rank as the second largest search engine after Google. And you know what? Google has already figured out how to make money from search. You sell the top results to the highest bidder.(From techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network! - 11/12/2008
Microsoft’s Live.com portal will change significantly this evening. No longer will it be a simple search engine with a few other services bolted on. It’s now a social network, too, pulling in activity information and content from around the web. They’re also launching Windows Live Photos and Windows Live People, and other services. (From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
Google AdSense To Improve Ad Filter & Blocking Ads - 11/10/2008
The Inside AdSense blog has told us they will be improving the speed of the AdSense competitive ad filter and also enhance the blocking capabilities of the Ad Review Center.(From Search Engine Land by Barry Schwartz)
Tag The World—One Tweet, Yelp, and Flickr At A Time - 11/9/2008
We all know how tagging makes the Web a richer place (by tapping into people’s desire to categorize things and share those categories, ad-hoc though they may be, with the everyone else). Tagging brings a bottoms-up order to the Web by making information more searchable and thus easier to find. Now it is time to start tagging the world. The real world.(From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
New Face Recognition Search Engine Luxand - 11/7/2008
Luxand just announced the availability of Luxand Face SDK 1.7, a unique facial-mapping engine that enables a website to find people by faces. Until recently, most searches worked by searching the text description surrounding the photo or the meta data. (From AltSearchEngine)
Live Search Maps Enables Photosynth Search - 11/7/2008
The Live Search Maps team has made it easier for you to search for Photosynths. If you're not familiar, Photosynth was launched earlier this year and users can take multiple photos of a location and have it mashed up into a 3D image.(From SearchEngineWatch.com)
Why Google’s book deal is such a big deal - 11/3/2008
Pandia argues that Google’s deal with US publishers and authors may lead to a new revolution in book dissemination — one that can be compared to the importance of the printing press.(From Pandia Search Engine News)
What is Google Query Expansion? Cases and Examples - 10/31/2008
Let’s face it, Google knows better what you want to search and find. Their search suggestions, related queries and query expansion are three major ways to help you understand what you really want.(From Search engine journal by Ann Smarty)
Google Tweaks AdWords To Reward “Quality” (And Juice Revenues) - 10/31/2008
There is nothing like a downturn to force a company focus on the bottom line, even a company like Google whose bottom line is still growing at a healthy pace. (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld )
Improvements to Ads Quality - 10/30/2008
We're always working on improvements that will help us show the most relevant ads to our searchers, and we're excited to tell you that we'll soon introduce two changes designed to enhance how we calculate Quality Score and rank ads. The first change helps better evaluate the precise quality of your ad - regardless of its position on the page. (From Google Adwords by Amanda Kelly)
Three tips on Search Marketing - 10/22/2008
Marketing Sherpa recently surveyed around 2000 search marketers for their 2008 Search Marketing Benchmark Guide.(from Lightspeed venture partners by jeremyliew)
SearchMe Adds Music Search With Unlimited Streaming Via Imeem Widgets - 10/20/2008
Okay, this has to be the coolest hack of the week. Visual search engine SearchMe has just added a music search tab that brings back results with free, legal, unlimited full-song streams and cover art you can flip through. It’s CoverFlow on the Web. And it actually trumps the experience one Yahoo’s music search, which also offers free full streams through Rhapsody—but those are limited to 25 streams a month per searcher.(From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld )
Free online image search tutorial - 10/20/2008
JISC has published a free online tutorial called Internet for Image Searching. The tutorial is designed to help staff and students in universities and colleges to find digital images for their learning and teaching.(From Pandia Search engine news)
SearchCube: una diferente forma de buscar - 10/19/2008
searchcube is a graphical search engine that presents search results in a compact, visual format. It searches the World Wide Web for websites, videos and images and displays previews of each result on a unique, three-dimensional cube (From Alt Search Engine)
Fast and Microsoft establish Innovation Center in Norway - 10/18/2008
Accenture, Fast Search and Transfer and Microsoft establish a think tank for search engine technology development in Oslo.(From Pandia Search Engine)
Flash is no longer the Search Engine Pit of Death - 10/16/2008
The search engines are slowly coming around to indexing the content of Flash files. There are ways of helping them find links hidden in Javascript as well.(From pandia Search Engine)
Fleck Headed To The Deadpool Because Nobody Wants to Annotate The Web - 10/16/2008
Just a week after ReFrame It launched its service that lets people annotate Web pages, another startup that’s been doing pretty much the same thing since 2006, Fleck, is putting itself up for sale. (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
New Video: Easy Tips For Better Searching - 10/15/2008
Last year, Common Craft produced a great, short video explaining RSS “in plain English.” The company is back now with another wonderful one, Web Search Strategies in Plain English. (From Search Engine Land by Danny Sullivan)
VideoSurf Is Now Live - 10/15/2008
VideoSurf, the new video search engine that I uncharacteristically raved about a little over a month ago, is now live for everyone to use.(from Search engine Land by Chris Sherman)
123People searches the Social Web - 10/14/2008
123People is a brand new people search engine that is set to launch this week. (From Pandia Search Engine News)
Next Generation of Multimedia Search Engine: VITALAS first showing, a NEM exclusive - 10/13/2008
The 2008 NEM Summit "Towards Future Media Internet" is a major conference and exhibition devoted to the field of Networked and Electronic Media and ICT at large. During this event, which this year will take place on October 13-15 in Saint-Malo, France, the VITALAS project will present its first multimedia search engine prototype.
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Hakia improves the presentation of search results - 10/13/2008
Semantic search engine hakia launched a new user interface last week. The aim is to “take search beyond 10 blue links”.(From pandia search engine News)
Still Searching For A Video Business Model, Google Introduces The YouTubevertorial - 10/7/2008
It wasn’t so long ago that we wondered if YouTube would ever start to flex its marketing muscles. Now it is trying to squeeze more money out of the ads on its homepage and just today it introduced the YouTubevertorial. (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
Can Facebook Help Keep Live Search Afloat? - 10/7/2008
Facebook’s integration of Microsoft’s Live Search raises two main questions: first, how does Facebook stand to benefit? And second, how does Microsoft? To answer these questions, we must recognize that each company faces its own type of problem and, therefore, stands to benefit uniquely.(From Techcrunch by Mark Hendrickson)
Jimmy Wales: The New Wikia Search API “Is Like Facebook Apps For Search Results.” - 10/7/2008
Jimmy Wales is opening up the Wikia Search engine to anyone who wants their own data or application to show up in results. (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld )
Ask.com Revamps Search Engine - 10/6/2008
Ask.com has a record of coming up with interesting innovations that are often copied by others in the Internet search business.(From The New York Times by Miguel Helft)
Semantic Search Engine Hakia Now Says It Can Filter Results By How Credible They Are - 10/6/2008
On the Internet, nobody knows your site is a dog (to paraphrase the famous New Yorker cartoon). At least not yet. Semantic search engine Hakia wants to change that. Ask.com is not the only search engine rolling out a redesign today. So is Hakia, which is introducing tabs to its search interface. (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
The Seeds of the Next Big Thing Are Being Planted Now - 10/4/2008
September 4th 2008 marked Google’s tenth birthday. That means that during 2000 and 2001, when all the air was being let out of the dot-com bubble, Google was in its infancy.(From Techcrunch by Dan Kimerling )
Does Google Need To Spend More On Traditional Brand Advertising? - 10/3/2008
Google has always been more an adversary to traditional Madison Avenue advertisers than a friend. But with economic woes looming, there aren’t too many companies with growing advertising budgets. (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
Google Image Search Ads In The Wild, Looks Like They Need Work - 10/3/2008
Last May Google announced that it would begin experimenting with display ads on its popular Image Search, which it has largely been unable to monetize - in 2006 the company estimated that it was missing out on $200 million a year because it wasn’t including ads in search results, and that number has almost certainly gone up since then.(From Techcrunch by Jason Kincaid)
Yahoo News Tests New Look, Targets Social Media Users - 10/3/2008
Yahoo News is inviting its throngs of readers to try its next version, which has new design and content features. Readers will immediately notice a wider footprint on the new Yahoo News, as well as larger text and other new design elements. (From Search Engine land by Matt McGee)
GAUDI: Google Audio Indexing - 10/3/2008
Google Audio Indexing is a new technology from Google that allows users to better search and watch videos from various YouTube channels. It uses speech technology to find spoken words inside videos and lets the user jump to the right portion of the video where these words are spoken (From Google Audio Indexing Labs)
Is Search The Best User Interface For Mobile? - 10/2/2008
Google has posted some more information about how search has been integrated into the first Android-powered phone, the T-Mobile G1, which goes on sale October 22.(From Techcrunch by Mark Hendrickson )
Google Blogsearch Relaunches as Techmeme Killer, Across 11 Categories - 10/1/2008
In its first major upgrade ever, Google Blogsearch just relaunched and looks radically different. (From Read Write Web by Marshall Kirkpatrick )
CHORUS CHORUS Workshop 5 - 9/29/2008
The fifth chorus workshop on socio-economic challenges (Sevilla 29th & 30th September)is approaching.
Yotify Launches Its “Google Alerts On Steroids” - 9/24/2008
Today sees the launch of Yotify, an online alert system that aims to make the web “work for you”. (From techcrunch by Jason Kincaid )
Pixsy Opens Up Embed Feature For All - 9/23/2008
Last year, media search platform Pixsy was in the news for forming a strategic partnership with Veoh, which would let the company play Pixsy videos directly in the page with the help of Pixsy’s new embed feature. (From Techcrunch by Don Reisinger)
Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Something to Fear - 9/21/2008
Randall Stross at The New York Times goes to bat for the Google/Yahoo search marketing deal, saying there’s “nothing to fear” from the two companies linking their search products.(From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
Searchme Launches Visual Search Engine For Mobile Devices - 9/18/2008
Searchme is starting to focus much of its time in the mobile space. Last week, it said it will launch an iPhone app and today it announced that it has launched a visual search engine for mobile devices that can be accessed by surfing to the company’s mobile page.( From Techcrunch by Don Reisinger )
Google Audio Indexing - 9/17/2008
Google has announced they've started audio indexing, or searching within videos for spoken words so YOU, as the searcher, can find exactly what you're looking for and when it happens.(From About.com:Web Search by Wendy Boswell)
Powerset, The Neutered Version - 9/17/2008
Microsoft promises that this is just the beginning of the integration with the recently acquired Powerset, but incorporating better Wikipedia clips into Live Search is a far cry from the original promise of the next generation search startup: true natural language search. (From techcrunch by Michael Arrington )
Search the Actual Video, Not its Title - 9/16/2008
Let’s make this clear, folks. Text comprises basically 26 pieces of information jumbled together in specific patterns to convey information. Videos, on the other hand, are millions upon millions of pieces of information smushed together for the same purpose. Compared to the latter, a search for the former seems almost childish. (From Alt Search Engines)
Scour interview: The making of a social search engine - 9/16/2008
Social search is upon us: A new brand of search engines is taking shape right now. In July we covered Scour, a new social meta search engine that encourages voting and commentary on its query results. In order to give you a glimpse behind the scenes of a social search engine in the making, we have interviewed Scour CEO Dan Yomtobian.(From Pandia search engine)
CHORUS CHORUS presentation at Quaero - 9/16/2008
The QUAERO/ImageCLEF Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval Evaluation workshop was held in Aarhus, Denmark on September 16, and invited contributions from the following fields: Evaluation of Pattern Recognition Methods, Image retrieval, and Multimedia information retrieval. The workshop was co-located with the CLEF Workshop 2008. Chorus project was be presented by Jussi Karlgren.
Google search finds seafaring solution - 9/15/2008
Google may take its battle for global domination to the high seas with the launch of its own “computer navy”. The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore. (From Times on line by Murad Ahmed)
SearchMe Is Coming To The iPhone (Naturally) - 9/12/2008
We once asked if Apple’s CoverFlow is a better interface for image search than the typical thumbnail grid approach. But what about for mobile search? SearchMe thinks it is good for both. (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
Marissa Mayer Clarifies: Search Is Only 10% Done, Not 90% - 9/10/2008
I spoke to Google’s Marissa Mayer at TechCrunch50 on Monday (a little after she we celebrated Google’s 10th birthday with cupcakes) and asked her about the search is “90-95%” solved story over the weekend. She said she’d be posting a clarification on the Google blog. That clarification just went up, here.(From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
The future of search - 9/10/2008
The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the 10 years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what's going to happen in the next 10 years? (From Google blog)
Another step to protect user privacy - 9/9/2008
Today, we're announcing a new logs retention policy: we'll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs after 9 months. We're significantly shortening our previous 18-month retention policy to address regulatory concerns and to take another step to improve privacy for our users. (From Google blog by Peter Fleischer)
Google debuts newspaper archive search - 9/8/2008
Google announced today it’s launching an initiative to make more newspapers accessible and searchable by partnering with newspaper publishers large and small. (From lostremote by Cory Bergman)
A New Way to Search: Use Your Mouse - 9/8/2008
Here at TechCrunch 50, there are a slew of interesting companies worth writing about on-stage. But I came across one in the Demo Pit that’s just as noteworthy.(From Techcrunch by Don Reisinger )
Marissa Mayer talks about Google at 10 -- and 20 - 9/7/2008
She is not nearly as famous as celebrity founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But, in many ways, Marissa Mayer has become the public face of Google, which was incorporated 10 years ago today. (From Los Angeles Times by Jessica Guynn)
Ten Ways To Keep Your Search History Private - 9/5/2008
Events such as AOL's release of private search history have prompted many search engine users to be a bit more cautious with their searching habits. (From About.com: web search by Wendy Boswell)
Will it go ’round in Circos? Search by personality! - 9/4/2008
Circos’ mission is to let anyone find knowledge that’s on the Web quickly, easily, and accurately. Our search engine helps you find precisely what you’re looking for by tapping into what people are saying across the Internet. (From Alt Serch engine)
Video Search Engine RedLasso Runs Afoul Of The Law - 9/4/2008
In early Internet days, circa 1996, I had a memorable phone conversation with a webmaster who had put up a site that violated our client's trademark. The webmaster told me, gently, as if speaking the obvious to a child, that "You don't understand man. You're talkin' about law. This is the internet. The law doesn't apply to the internet". Of course he was wrong. We sent a cease and desist order and they ceased and desisted. Now, the saga of RedLasso once again shows that law does indeed apply to the internet. (From Search engine land by Bob Heyman)
How to Chrome Your Industry - 9/4/2008
Imagine what would happen if GM and Ford collaborated to invest in the components and architecture of a better public transport network -- and then licensed it for free to cities, states, and countries. (from Harvard business publishing by Umair Haque )
Yahoo BOSS Used To Create Powerset For Images and More - 9/3/2008
Yahoo has highlighted a few more implementations of BOSS, the search API it launched in early July that allows third party websites to incorporate Yahoo search functionality seamlessly into their sites.(From Techcrunch by Mark Hendrickson)
Ultrasound to give feel to games - 9/2/2008
The power of ultrasonic waves has been harnessed to produce "virtual" objects in mid-air.(from BBC news)
The future of search may be personalized, but what about your privacy? - 9/2/2008
Pandia takes a look at how the search engines may use your web surfing habits and other data to fine tune your search results.(From pandia search engines)
Google’s Chrome Browser: What You Need to Know - 9/1/2008
The Beta Download: Available September 2, 2008 Google’s Chrome Browser is not only real, it’s almost available to users for download. According to the Google Blog Chrome will become available for download tomorrow morning in more than 100 countries. The Beta launch of Chrome was announced in an official blog post called A fresh take on the browser.(From Searchenginejournal )
Meet Chrome, Google’s Windows Killer - 9/1/2008
Make no mistake. The cute comic book and the touchy-feely talk about user experience is little more than a coat of paint on top of a monumental hatred of Microsoft. (From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
Microsoft’s Live Search Cashback Scheme Fails To Move The Market Share Needle - 8/28/2008
When it comes to search, Microsoft is trying everything it can to become a serious player. It tried to acquire Yahoo, its latest version of Internet Explorer attempts to steer Web surfers away from Google, and then there is straight-out payola to search advertisers. I am talking, of course, of Microsoft’s Live Search Cashback promotion, which lets advertisers offer rebates to consumers who make a purchase after doing a Microsoft search.(From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
Chose Re@dle, Re@dle, or Re@dle - 8/28/2008
Built with automatically updated “News Pages”, Readle Meme listing up to 100 headlines and excerpts (depending on how “hot” the topic are) from the latest and most popular News and Blog posts on every page. You can read the latest about Tech, Gadgets, News, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nokia, Social Networks, Web 2.0, Yahoo, and much more that’s hot right now in the Blogosphere. The pages are updated automatically with around 20-30 minutes intervall. Just reload the pages. Some headlines climbs, and some fall off. Use search for older headlines.(From Alt Search Engine)
Google Testing Two Videos On One Web Search Result - 8/28/2008
Ever since the launch of Google Universal Search, Google has been showing videos in the web search results. But sometimes, there are more than one video shown in the web search results and, in many cases, those multiple videos will take up the space of 2 or more of the ten results shown.(From SearchEngineLand by Barry Schwartz)
4 Years Later, Google Suggest Finally Goes Primetime - 8/25/2008
Over the next week, Google will finally be implementing Google Suggest, its auto-complete for searches, on its homepage at Google.com. (From techcrunch Jason Kincaid )
Comment faire la nique aux géants américains? - 8/25/2008
La domination américaine en matière de technologies de l’information en énerve plus d’un/e de par le monde. Certains font appel à leur gouvernement pour les protéger. D’autres se lancent dans la bataille avec des outils de leur propre cru. Et il leur arrive de s’imposer. (From Le Monde.fr)
Google Takes U.S. Share From Yahoo In July; Baidu Now Third Largest Search Engine In The World (ComScore) - 8/21/2008
Google keeps gaining search market share in the U.S., but its global dominance is not as great as previously indicated. Last night, comScore released its search market share and query growth numbers for July and Lehman Brothers reported the numbers in a note this morning.(From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
Introducing Google Without All the Google - 8/21/2008
Want to search Google for results that don't include sites under the Google umbrella? Try Google Minus Google. The site shows YouTube-less, Knol-less, and Blogger-less results. (From SearchengineWatch.com)
Use Searchii and Bumby and Bob’s Your Uncle! - 8/19/2008
Searchii is a search engine designed to deliver fast, relevant results. Searchii is a New Zealand owned company, but operates out of New Zealand, Australia, United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. With Searchii you can find local websites, search the World Wide Web, find images, video or catch up on today’s news.(From Alt Search engine)
Yahoo Grouping Results & Google Tests Sort By Date Or Relevance - 8/19/2008
It appears that Yahoo has started to group results together, by indenting listings from the same domain under the first search listing. For example, a search on search engine land at Yahoo returns these two results, the second being indented.(FromSearch engine land by Barry Schwartz)
Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search Engine - 7/27/2008
Park based Cuil will launch later this evening with an index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably the most comprehensive search engine on the web (Google doesn’t disclose the size of their index, although they claim to know about a trillion unique web pages) (Update: see our very early testing here).(From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
CHORUS CHORUS P2P Workshop - 7/24/2008
The report of the Chorus P2P Workshop is now available! (This Workshop was held in Vico Equense, Italy on June 4,6, 2008)
CHORUS A Search Functional overview - 7/24/2008
Written by Henri Gouraud (JCP-Consult). This document provides simple functional overview of search engine, by breaking it down into essential and necessary components. The purpose of the paper is to identify critical issues associated with each component. This document will be completed by a more theoretical contribution that will be released mid September.
Google buying Digg for 200 million ...Why? - 7/22/2008
Rumors are spreading all over the blogosphere that Google and Digg are talking acquisition again as Google will be buying Digg for $200 million and bringing it in under the Google News umbrella, as TechCrunch is reporting (no word if the two parties are holed up in a secret hotel room location outside of MountainView or not).(From Search engine journal by Loren Baker)
Is it possible to have Intimacy online? - 7/22/2008
Lately, I have been thinking a lot lately about Web 2.0, Social Networking & Romance. With the Next Generation of Web bringing all parts of the World together through Social Media got me wondering what this has done to Love & Intimacy. (From SocialDesire.com by Shana Albert)
The First Meta Inspiration Search Engine Oamos - 7/22/2008
Oamos questions search engines for up-to-date news, images, synonyms, music and videos in relation to your topics. The content are streamed audio-visually more or less objective or entertaining, with or without sound, and with or without links. (From AltSeachEngine)
Introducing Search Race Engine #208 - pressflip - 7/19/2008
We’re proud to announce the discovery of pressflip, a new persistent search engine that focuses on one simple question: what are you interested in? (From Alt Search Engine)
Pressflip Is A Belly Flop - 7/19/2008
Pressflip is a new blog search engine (it’s actually a relaunch of a site called Persai, which launched earlier this year). The idea is you do a search, train the engine by telling it which results aren’t interesting to you, and then wait for new results to come in over time.(From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
News Video Research Offers SEO Opportunities - 7/18/2008
In a previous article titled New Online Video News Search Study - Is the Business Case Made?, I discussed a DoubleClick Performics study that looked at how consumers interact with online video news, how they use search in the process, and their desire to see more video search results on the mainstream search engines.(From Search engine Land by Grant Crowell)
comScore: Yahoo & Microsoft Gain Share But Google Breaks 7 Billion Searches - 7/18/2008
It's search popularity statistics time again, and I'm starting off with the latest figures from comScore. Finally, a change -- Google slips while Yahoo and Microsoft gain. Trouble for the Big G? Not really -- because in terms of raw number of searches, June 2008 was another record breaker for Google.(From Search Engine Land)
Google Buys Russian Contextual Ads Service for $140m - 7/18/2008
BREAKING NOW: Google is buying Russian contextual advertising company ZAO Begun for $140 million from UK-registered Rambler Media (many Russian firms now base themselves in the UK). (From Techcrunch by Mike Butcher)
LOUD3R Offers a BETT3R Way To Discover News - 7/17/2008
Filtering through the noise to find news on discovery sites can be daunting. Social bookmarking sites like Digg and Reddit have been doing very well, and memetrackers, like Techmeme, are also growing in popularity. (From Techcrunch by Calley Nye)
Google Continues To Test A Search Interface That Looks More Like Digg Every Day - 7/16/2008
A couple of days ago we posted screen shots of a new search interface being bucket tested by Google that lets users vote up or down on search results. The resulting interface was very Digg-like, and included a total vote count, etc.(From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
Is This The Future Of Search? - 7/16/2008
Earlier today we showed a screen shot of the interface and a video of the search history, recorded by Adrian Pike, the CTO of startup Tatango. This new video, however (also recorded by Pike), shows the full Google search experience with a very Digg-like interface. Users vote search results up or down - a down vote makes it dissapear with a “poof,” an up vote moves the result to the first page.(From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
Scour, social search with a twist - 7/14/2008
Scour is a brand new meta social search engine that encourages voting and commentary on each of its query results drawn from Google, Yahoo! And Live Search. And they will pay you to use their site. (From Pandia Search Engine News)
"In their own words": political videos meet Google speech-to-text technology - 7/14/2008
In this U.S. election year, what information could be more important than the candidates' own words to describe their views, actions and platforms? Our teams have been working to develop tools to make it easier for people to track election-related information. (From Google Blog by Arnaud Sahuguet and Ari Bezman)
What Can TV Learn from Search? - 7/11/2008
A few television and cable companies have taken a page from the online marketing playbook lately. Comcast acquired social networking site Plaxo last month to integrate social network-like features that let viewers share programming in a viral way. Meanwhile, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is looming on the horizon with promise of interactivity and the long tail-like content capacity. (From Searchenginewatch.com by Michael Boland)
Searching on an iPhone can be fun - 7/10/2008
You probably agree that nothing can be made too easy. We've been dreaming of ways to make searching on phones easier and more fun. Today, we're showing off our first native app for the iPhone and iPod touch -- Google Mobile App. It combines powerful Google services with a slick interface, so you can find what you're looking for faster and more easily.(From Google Mobile blog by Alastair Tse and Nicholas Jitkoff)
Who’s the BOSS? The Alt Search Engines Respond - 7/10/2008
There are a lot of vertical content sites that will no doubt tap into the BOSS offering from Yahoo, as the strength of Yahoo’s overall search comprehensiveness has been a missing piece of the puzzle for such sites. This also opens a whole new realm of innovation from startups in areas like semantic search and social search in particular, and kudos to Yahoo for opening the door to further push that envelope.(From AltSearchengines by Siva Kumar)
Me.dium Launches "Real Time" Social Search - 7/10/2008
Me.dium has introduced a social search engine that blends results from a "real time" index of what people are currently viewing online with Yahoo's full-scale web index. The result is something I've not seen elsewhere—and despite my long time skepticism regarding social search, this approach actually holds promise for delivering a unique view of relevant content on the web.(From Search Engine land by Chris Sherman)
Online Privacy Hearings See Conflicting Testimony And Recommendations - 7/10/2008
Privacy has re-emerged as one of the most pressing and complex issues for everyone online, including search engines, after a sustained period of relative calm. However the rise of behavioral targeting, domestic spying/wiretapping by the Bush administration, attempts by states to regulate privacy and more aggressive moves by Europeans to protect consumers have created conflicting policies and confusion for everyone. (From Search Engine land by Greg Sterling)
Browse Del.icio.us Bookmarks Visually With FavThumbs - 7/10/2008
While we’ve waited with bated breath for the release of Delicious 2.0 (Yahoo’s been teasing us for months), Ryan Sit, the creator of Swurl, a recently launched startup that offers a lifecasting aggregator for web activity, has been toying around with the Del.icio.us API to bring us FavThumbs. FavThumbs offers a visually-pleasing web application to view screen shots of your bookmarks. (From Techcrunch by Calley Nye )
Yahoo Radically Opens Web Search With BOSS - 7/9/2008
When you’re the distant second player in web search, you’ve got nothing to lose by making bold moves. So it makes sense that Yahoo has adopted an open strategy with the following idea in mind: woo developers to build on top of your technology, and then display your advertisements to more eyeballs throughout the long tail of the web. (from Techcrunch by Mark Hendrickson )
Did the “Enron of Norway” Pull a Fast One On Microsoft? More Details About the Mess at Fast Search & Transfer - 7/3/2008
Even back in January when Microsoft agreed to pay $1.2 billion for enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer, it was mired in an accounting scandal and trading in its stock had been suspended.
Google Readying Analysis of World's "One Trillion" Images - 7/1/2008
As it seeks to monetize the exploding universe of uploaded images to the Web, which Google says is nearing one trillion, it is developing image processing to more effectively search and organize images. Presently, photos are indexed primarily by text and other metadata.(From Beet TV by Andy Plesser)
Jogli’s Music Search Streams 500M Songs, 12M Albums - 6/26/2008
Meet Jogli, a music search engine that claims to offer immediate listening access to 500M songs and 12M albums. (From Techcrunch by Roi Carthy )
Microsoft To Buy Powerset? Not Just Yet. - 6/26/2008
VentureBeat is reporting that Microsoft has agreed to buy semantic search engine Powerset for somewhere around $100 million, which is the price we previously reported was being offered to the company.(From techcrunch by Michael Arrington )
Build Your Own Semantic Search Engine With Hakia’s APIs - 6/19/2008
Want to create your own semantic search engine, but just don’t have the PhDs? Semantic search engine Hakia is opening up APIs to let anyone build their own semantic search application on top of its technology. (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld )
Technorati Launches Blog Ad Network, Technorati Media - 6/17/2008
Blog-focused advertising networks are all the rage right now, with both Federated Media and Glam pulling down big valuation financing rounds in the last few months based very early growth metrics. (From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
Powerset Unveils iPhone-Optimized Wikipedia Search - 6/17/2008
Powerset, the natural language search engine that partially launched in May, has released a mobile version of their site that allows users to quickly search Wikipedia from their iPhone (From Techcrunch by Jason Kincaid )
Will 2008 Be Google’s End Of Innocence? - 6/16/2008
2008 may be the year that Google’s innocence ends, as media and governments start to cast a less forgiving eye at the behavior of the company that controls 60% of the search market and perhaps as much as half of all online advertising revenue.(From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
Yahoo Announces Non-Exclusive Search Agreement With Google - 6/12/2008
Well, it was a little later than we expected, but Yahoo has announced a non-exclusive deal with Google around search and search advertising. Yahoo’s press release is below and their blog post is here.(From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
Twingly Blog Search Engine Now Public (With Widgets) - 6/12/2008
Swedish startup Twingly opened up its blog search engine to the public this morning.(From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
Mahalo Has Competition (YouBundle Secret Screen Shots) - 6/11/2008
People-powered search engine Mahalo will soon have some competition from a stealth startup called YouBundle. (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld) More...
Fast Trouble for Microsoft - 5/29/2008
Regulators refer a newly acquired Microsoft unit to criminal investigators in Norway. (From "Portfolio.com" by Liz Gunnison )
The Seeds Of a Good Idée: TinEye Image Search (500 Invites) - 5/26/2008
Image search is a hard problem. That is especially true when you are searching with no information other than the image itself (no tags, titles, or descriptions, just the photo). (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
Who’s hoping to become the next Google? - 5/22/2008
It seems like Google has been the dominant search company since time began but in reality it wasn’t that long ago we were habitually using the likes of Lycos, AltaVista and the previous giant of the internet, Yahoo!(From Altsearchengine)
The Empire Strikes Back: Our Analysis Of Microsoft Live Search Cashback - 5/22/2008
Everyone has an opinion on today’s move by Microsoft to shake things up in the search space. Their new Live Search Cashback product shifts search advertising from cost-per-click (CPC) to cost-per-action (CPA) and give a lot of the revenue back to users. (From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington )More...
SearchDay: Microsoft to Give Cash Back to Searchers - 5/21/2008
SearchDay: Microsoft to Give Cash Back to Searchers (From SearchEngine by Kevin Newcomb)
Ijntroduction to Google Search Quality - 5/20/2008
Search Quality is the name of the team responsible for the ranking of Google search results. (From Google blog by Udi Manber)
The Biggest Tech IPO of 2008 Is Coming Out of Russia: Search Engine Yandex to Raise Up To $2 Billion - 5/20/2008
The Google of Russia is Yandex, and it is preparing for an IPO on Nasdaq in the fall with the hopes of raising $1.5 billion to $2 billion, reports Reuters.(From techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld )
Microsoft To Offer Cash Back To Search Engine Users In Effort To Fight Google - 5/20/2008
Microsoft will announce a new search advertising model tomorrow at the Advance08 Conference in Redmond, Washington - some parts of the site are already live on Microsoft now (From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington )
Free business news search engine from Northern Light - 5/18/2008
Northern Light has been around since the beginning of web search. For the last six years, however, Northern Light’s services have been reserved for enterprise customers. Recently, they launched a free business news search engine.(From Pandia)
Google Confirms Friend Connect - 5/12/2008
As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own data portability effort called Friend Connect. (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld )
Powerset Launches Showcase For User Search Experience - 5/11/2008
Today marks another milestone for San Francisco based contextual search engine Powerset. (From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington )
Viewzi May Finally Have Won Me Over to Visual Search - 5/10/2008
Apparently, Viewzi had its private beta launch when I was in San Francisco for Web 2.0 Expo, because how I missed it, I have no idea. I've never been a big fan of visual search, but I'm always willing to give it a try, going in with the expectation that I'll be doing a lot of eye-rolling. (From Profy by Cyndy Aleo-Carreira )
Safari Search Plugin Inquisitor Acquired By Yahoo! - 5/9/2008
Inquisitor, the Safari search plugin billed as “Spotlight for the web”, has been acquired by Yahoo.(From Techcrunch by Jason Kincaid)
Yahoo’s Answer to Google’s Universal Search is Glue (Coming Soon to America) - 5/8/2008
Sometimes the only way to get new products out the door at a big company like Yahoo is to launch it far away from HQ. (From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
Google May Run Display Advertisements With Image-Search Results - 5/7/2008
Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, is considering running illustrated advertisements alongside the results of Web queries for pictures, moving beyond its text-based ad business. (From Bloomberg.com by Crayton Harrison and Fred Fishkin)
Enhanced Image Search - What Is It Like? - 5/5/2008
I mainly search for images online when I need a web design inspiration or if I want to decorate a post of mine. Some recent image search engines and search engine applications seem really impressive to me. (From Seosmarty)
Yahoo To Flag Malware Sites In Search Results - 5/5/2008
Tomorrow Yahoo will launch a partnership with McAfee and will integrate their Site Advisor malware scanning product into Yahoo search. (From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
Google Experiments With Next Generation Image Search - 4/27/2008
Two Google scientists presented a paper (pdf embedded below) at the World Wide Web Conference in Beijing last week that outlines their vision for the future of image search.( From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)
Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point? - 4/25/2008
As the Web swells with more and more data, the predominant way of sifting through all of that data keyword search will one day break down in its ability to deliver the exact information we want at our fingertips.(From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)
Search for Mapped Web Pages in Google Maps - 4/20/2008
Google Maps added the map view available at Google Experimental Search. Google extracts the most important locations from web pages and lets you see the search results on a map.(From Google operating system )
Monday is Alternative Search Engines Day - 4/18/2008
On Monday, April 21st, a unique event will take place as dozens of Alternative Search Engines gather together for one special day organized by them and for them.(From Search Engines)
Google likes working with yahoo - 4/18/2008
Two major search engine companies that also offer a variety of competing services: can they be friendly and work side-by-side? (From Search Engine Journal by Julie Kent)
Google Gets Whois Answers In Search Results - 4/18/2008
Looks like Google's gained a new direct answer service, whois information for domains. (From Search Engine Land by Danny Sullivan)
Visual, Mobile Search Engine Coming to iPhones in Japan - 4/18/2008
Evolution Robotics is preparing to introduce a new mobile search engine, dubbed ER Search, that incorporates visual search. (From Searchenginewatch.com by Nathania Johnson)
Twing Launches New Search Technology - 4/18/2008
Twing recently announced the debut of its new online community and forum search engine, www.Twing.com. (From Search Engines)
Google announces first quarter 2008 results - 4/17/2008
Google's results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008, include the operations of DoubleClick Inc. from the date of acquisition, March 11, 2008, through the end of the quarter, and are compared to pre-acquisition results of prior periods. (From Google Investor Relations)
Blinkx Keeps On Keepin’ On - 4/17/2008
Video Search engine Blinkx has announced five ad deals in recent weeks, along with other new initiatives. (From Search Engine Land by Bob Heyman)
Will Social Networking Kill Search? - 4/17/2008
A provocative headline and somewhat less provocative article in Popular Mechanics argues that social networking will kill search "as we know it." ( From Search Engine Land by by Greg Sterling)
PicLens improves image search - 4/16/2008
PicLens is a Firefox add on that makes image search fun and easy.(From Pandia Search Engine)
How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It - 4/16/2008
Google owns search for now, but as PM's senior tech editor explains in his biweekly column, the evolving nature of how we use the Internet has left an uncertain future for search—and it's all the fault of you and your friends.(From Popular Mechanics by Glenn Derene)
Nsyght launches beta - 4/15/2008
Nsyght is a human powered search engine and this week Geoffrey and his team launched Nsyght Beta.(From Pandia Search Engine)
Crawling through HTML forms - 4/11/2008
Google is constantly trying new ideas to improve our coverage of the web. We already do some pretty smart things like scanning JavaScript and Flash to discover links to new web pages, and today, we would like to talk about another new technology we've started experimenting with recently.(From Google by Jayant Madhavan and Alon Halevy)
News Corp., AOL Pursue Yahoo Deals - 4/10/2008
Yahoo Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are closing in on a deal to combine their Internet operations(From Wall street Journal By MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG, KEVIN J. DELANEY and MERISSA MARR)
Google's App Engine: Aiming At Facebook, Not Amazon - 4/9/2008
There's no shortage of stories about Google’s newly launched App Engine, but almost all of them get it wrong -- because they compare the new service to Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services (AMZN).(From Silicon Alley Insider by Nate Westheimer)
Google's App Engine: Aiming At Facebook, Not Amazon - 4/9/2008
There's no shortage of stories about Google’s newly launched App Engine, but almost all of them get it wrong -- because they compare the new service to Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services (AMZN).(From Silicon Alley Insider by Nate Westheimer) More...
European recommendations for data protection and search engines - 4/8/2008
The European Union's Article 29 Working Group has completed its PDF report on data protection and search engines. The group recommends that search engines only be allowed to hold onto search data for six months. To hang onto data for longer, search engine operators will need to show that such data is "strictly necessary" to offer the service. Google and others have long said that they need to retain data in order to refine search results, prevent click fraud, and launch new services like spell check (which, in Google's case, was built from user search data). In addition, the data that is kept will need to be guarded more closely. The working group concluded that IP addresses could be used to identify individuals; if not by the search engine itself, then by law enforcement or after a subpoena.
Yahoo ! lance une solution de recherche mobile - 4/4/2008
Dans sa présentation au congrès CTIA Wireless 2008, Marco Boerries, executive vice president de Yahoo! Connected Life, a dévoilé Yahoo! oneSearch 2.0, la nouvelle version du moteur de recherche de Yahoo. (From IRT Manager.com)More...
Yahoo ! est la recherche voix - 4/3/2008
Yahoo! OneSearch 2,0, souhaite accélérer les recherches en ligne et faire des millions de liens web plus accessible pour les téléphones mobiles et cela va inclure la voix en partenariat avec vlingo (From Services Mobiles) More...
Windows Live Search Mobile Adds New Mapping Features - 4/1/2008
Microsoft will be adding new capabilities to its mobile search app, Windows Live Search Mobile, later this Spring.(From Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld)More...
Kosmix, a different kind of clustering engine - 3/30/2008
Kosmix is a different kind of clustering search engine. Their spider crawls the web and works hard to categorize the web pages it gathers into algorithm generated topic pages.(From "Pandia")More...
AllPlus Universal Meta Search and Discovery - 3/28/2008
The AllPlus Universal Meta Search and Discovery Engine aims to identify and present the very best search results from the very best information sources on the Web. (From "Searchengine")More...
Privacy Policies And Search Engines - 3/27/2008
A few weeks back, I started wondering about whether or not search engines might care whether or not a web site had a privacy policy. (From "Searchengine" by Bill Slawski)More...
Google expands search box - 3/26/2008
Google adjusts it search box to the length of your query.(From "Pandia")More...
YouTube Now Offering Video Statistics - 3/26/2008
Google has announced that YouTube users will now have access to in depth statistics for their videos.(from "Techcrunch" by Duncan Riley)More...
Google AdWords Officially Launches Demographic Bidding? Maybe Not - 3/24/2008
On Friday, Google announced they launched demographic bidding to every advertiser in the AdWords program. In short, demographic bidding allows advertisers to show their ads to specific age groups and genders. They did a beta launch of this earlier this year, where they dropped using comScore data for their own.(From "Search engine land" by Barry Schwartz) More...
Answers.com presents WikiAnswers What is it? - 3/24/2008
We all know about Answers.com: as the world’s greatest encyclodictionalmanacapedia, it’s the best way to get facts and information on over four million topics. If you want to read Madonna’s biography or learn more about London, that’s your one-stop shop. But what about the detailed questions? What if you already know background information about Madonna, but want to know if she is still married to Guy Ritchie? Or you want to know what the best way is to get from London to Paris? (From "Search engine")More...
Check Out Game Search Engine Gameseekr - 3/24/2008
Gameseekr is a free service that lets you find games on the internet, find friends who have similar interests, create and maintain your game list and share your game lists with your friends. (from Search engine) More...
Fight Cancer with Search Engine GoodSearch - 3/24/2008
The NCRA (National Cancer Registrars Association) Education Foundation is excited about the opportunities that lie ahead and the benefit that it can be to the cancer registry profession. There are several ways that you, too, can become a partner in our progress. One is by using www.GoodSearch.com as your search engine.(From "Search engine")More...
SearchMedica Powers Search on ModernMedicine - 3/24/2008
Partnership with SearchMedica to enhance web searches on ModernMedicine.com. Exclusive alliance will deliver quality, on-demand content for medical professionals.(From "Search engine") More...
Facial Recognition Video Search Engine Viewdle - 3/24/2008
Viewdle, the facial recognition-oriented video search company, today announced that it has partnered with KIT Capital, a Dubai-based digital media investment group which recently took a strategic investment position in corporate IPTV enablement company ROO Group.(From "Search engine") More...
Google Deemphasizes Search In Experimental Mobile Interface - 3/24/2008
Spotted over the weekend by Garrett Rogers, Google has quietly introduced a new, experimental mobile interface called "LCB" that emphasizes browsing instead of search. Something of a radical approach for Google, which is synonymous with search, the site allows users to get to results in top "local search" categories such as restaurants, travel, transportation, retail, entertainment, and sports without having to enter a query. Most results are two clicks down. (From Searchengine by Greg Sterling) More...
The iSEEK Search Engine - Targeted Discovery - 3/24/2008
At iSEEK, we wanted to use our advanced linguistic, conceptual, and AI technologies to make web search better - more relevant, direct, productive, and intelligent. But what we built isn’t just a search engine at all. By making “web searches” more intelligent and intuitive, we left “searching” behind… and now offer you Targeted Discovery, the new era of information retrieval on the web.(From "Search engine") More...
Some Retailers Oppose Google’s Secondary Search Feature - 3/23/2008
Google started offering secondary search boxes for major sites March 4, and TechCrunch readers split 55% for, 45% against the feature. Now the New York Times reports that some companies oppose Google offering secondary search. (From Techcrunch: by Duncan Riley) More...
Swotti - A Semantic Opinions Aggregator - 3/21/2008
Swotti is a new semantic search engine that aggregates opinions about products to help you make purchasing decisions.(From Readwriteweb: by Sarah Perez )More...
BlogCatalog.com Adds Cross-Network Search - 3/20/2008
BlogCatalog, one of the oldest operating blog directories is expanding with a with the beta launch of Social Search, a cross-network aggregation search engine that searches multiple social networks. (From Techcrunch: by Duncan Riley)More...
How Search Has Transformed News Consumption On The Web - 3/20/2008
We all know that news consumption is no longer passive, whether it’s reader comments on a blog post or news article, or individuals starting a blog to have a voice of their own — the evidence is everywhere. Less evident is how search has fundamentally changed how we consume news. Instead of passively accepting the information provided by any single news source, search has taught us to be active news consumers, so seek out news from the wealth of sources on the web.(From Publishing: by Scott Karp) More...
Search team - 3/19/2008
"Most of our tools, such as search engines, are designed for a single person working alone, but this is not the only way we work," says Meredith Morris, a researcher with the group of adaptive systems and interactions Microsoft Research... (from internetactu: by Hubert Guillaud le 19/03/08 )More...
Google’s Trojan Horse: Let the Free Ad Serving Begin - 3/13/2008
One of the biggest misunderstandings in much of the discussion about Google’s deal to buy DoubleClick is the perception that DoubleClick actually is involved in selling advertising.(From "The New-York Times" by Saul Hansell) More...
The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem - 3/13/2008
A few weeks ago, we began
Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry - 3/13/2008
Yahoo’s embrace of all things open continues today as they announce that they are expanding their Open Search Platform that we wrote about last month. In that previous announcement, Yahoo talked about their plans to allow third parties to alter and enhance search results with structured data that may be useful to users. (from TechCrunch : by Michael Arrington, 13th March 2008)More...
Anticlimax: YouTube Announces More Open API’s - 3/12/2008
YouTube’s big announcement today is more open API’s that will allow developers to upload videos and video responses from any where. From the YouTube Blog: (from TechCrunch : by Duncan Riley, 12th March 2008)
SearchMe Launches New Search Engine With Heavy Backing From Sequoia - 3/11/2008
Mountain View based SearchMe has been around since 2005 and has raised $31 million from Sequoia, DAG Ventures and Lehman Brothers. It now joins Mahalo as one of Sequoia’s big bets in search. In January 2007 the company launched a test product called WikiSeek that returned results only from Wikipedia and sites linked from Wikipedia. At the time Adams said WikiSeek was just a test product for the technology they developed. Now, over a year later, their ready to put up their main site. (from TechCrunch : by Michael Arrington, 11th March 2008)
State aid : The Commission is authorising financial aid from France of 99 million euro for the R&D programme QUAERO - 3/11/2008
The European Commission has decided not to raise any objections with relation to the rules of the EC treaty regarding state aid in relation to the financial support of 99 million euro given by France to the R&D programme entitled QUAERO. QUAERO is made up of a consortium of 23 partners which is lead by Thomson. It aims at the automatic treatment of digital multimedia content. The QUAERO R&D programme will represent a total cost of 199 million euro over a period of 5 years. It will concentrate on technologies dealing with automatic treatment of speech, language, music, images and video. (Article in French) (from European Commission, Press Release, 11th March 2008)
PeekYou: Openly edited people search - 3/11/2008
PeekYou is not a people search engine, but rather an openly edited directory or white pages listing people’s online presence. The site lets you locate other Internet users with a presence on the web and access a list of all relevant links to the person being searched.(From "Pandia research news")More...
eeggi: The Intelligent Retrieving, Responding and Discovering Engine - 3/7/2008
eeggi (engineered, encyclopedic, global and grammatical identities) is the world’s first mathematically-based Search and Retrieve, Response, and Discovery engine (ReDi engine), capable of focusing on the concept of text and not just the text itself.(From "ReadWriteWeb" by Charles Knight) More...
Monetize Your Search Box with PredictAd - 3/4/2008
Too often it is still easier to search the entire Web than a single site. In-site search leaves much to be desired in its ability to provide users with accurate search results, let alone assistance in performing more accurate searches. Israeli PredictAd is attacking this challenge head-on by offering auto-complete functionality for search boxes with an added twist: monetizable real-estate. Already deployed across 6,000 websites and generating millions of monthly impressions, PredictAd is announcing the launch of PredictAdPlus+. (from TechCrunch, by Roi Carthy, 4th March 2008)
Google Gears Goes Mobile - 3/4/2008
Google is bringing offline apps to mobile phones - and this has nothing to do with Android. Google Gears, which allows developers to create apps that run on Firefox and Internet Explorer when offline, is supposed to launch later today under the name Google Gears for mobile. It will support only Pocket IE running on Windows Mobile devices to start (Windows Mobile 5 and 6), but will expand to other mobile browsers eventually. (from TechCrunch, by Erick Schonfeld, 3rd March 2008
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Spot Runner Buys Weblistic: Local Search on Video Steroids - 3/4/2008
Today Spot Runner announced its acquisition of Weblistic, a provider of local online advertising, in an all-stock transition. Spot Runner is an internet-based television ad agency headquartered in Los Angeles. The company says in its press release, “The acquisition of Weblistic will enable Spot Runner to correlate TV and online advertising with phone- and Web-based responses to provide tracking, analysis and results.” The result promises to be an integrated offering of online, TV, and radio advertising for small businesses in their local markets. (from SearchEngineWatch, by Nathania Johnson, 4th March 2008)
Yahoo Downsizing In The United States, Hiring In India - 3/4/2008
Yahoo’s decision to purge 1000 staff members primarily from its United States operations (some in Europe) has been hot news this year. What we didn’t know when the announcement was made was that Yahoo was planning to expand its base in India. Yahoo is establishing a new lab in Bangalore with a focus on long-term research. The lab will be “a center of excellence for next generation search and advertising technologies, focused on making the Web more relevant and simple for users and advertisers.” (from TechCrunch, by Duncan Riley, 4th March 2008)
Twing Search for Opinions, Forums, Conversation - 3/4/2008
Twing today announced its new online community and forum search engine. Created to be a resource for helping users search and discover opinions, information and conversations that match their interests, Twing includes its own blogs and forums to provide updated community information and an ongoing conversation with visitors and forum owners. Twing’s use of proprietary software and algorithms enables users to search into forum content well beyond the limitations of traditional search engines. (from Alt Search Engines,4th March 2008).
Ask.com to Cut 8%, Revamp Search Plans - 3/4/2008
Ask.com will stop trying to compete directly with Google as a mainstream search engine, and will instead focus on targeting niches where it feels it can prosper, based on the way users are searching with Ask.com now. Reports from Reuters and the Wall Street Journal quote new CEO Jim Safka saying "We are reorienting the company around where we can grow," and "If we can do a better job of understanding who these customers are and answering their questions, we will grow." (from SearcEngineWatch, by Kevin Newcomb, 4th March 2008)
Put current events in context with news search engine Silobreaker - 3/4/2008
Silobreaker is a different news search service. It aims to deliver meaning and relevance, not just aggregate and rank news. This is done by providing relational analysis and explanatory graphics to give you contextual insight into news stories and current events.Silobreaker pulls content on global issues, science, technology and business from approximately 10,000 news, blog, research and multimedia sources. It recognizes people, companies, topics, places and keywords. It understands how they relate to each other, and puts them in context. (from Pandia Search Engine News, 4th March 2008)
Virgin Charter Launches Vertical Search Engine - 3/4/2008
Sir Richard Branson launched a new vertical search engine, Virgin Charter, that promises to revolutionize high end corporate travel and last minute luxury travel. Virgin Charters targeting the $30 billion market for private air travel with an online auction marketplace. (from SearchEngineWatch, by Kevin Heisler, 4th March 2008)
Google Offers Secondary Search Boxes - 3/4/2008
Google has started offering search boxes within their search results. In the example above, a search box is offered for Amazon. The new service seems to be restricted to larger sites with a slant towards retails sites. Borders, BestBuy and OfficeMax offer the secondary box, as does a search for Wikipedia and The NY Times.On the surface it would appear to be yet another dilution of Google’s famed simple interface, the very interface that helped put Google where it is today. And yet, some may find it useful. (from TechCrunch, by Duncan Riley, 4th March 2008)
IFRA Search - search engine for news publishing - 3/3/2008
IFRA Search, the search engine for the news publishing industry, is online. IFRA will find all information relevant to the news publishing industry drawn from IFRA’s own, partners’ and other high-quality sources.Its vertical orientation ensures that the hits generated by IFRA Search offer quality instead of quantity – the result of a two-year development period based on more than 40 years of IFRA know-how in the news publishing industry. Thus the IFRA search engine offers the possibility to find important contents quickly and precisely.
Plenty Car Search Engine for Car News & New Cars - 3/3/2008
Plenty Car is a vertical search engine for car news, new car reviews, dealer locations, and other information on the automotive industry, which is based on the Google Custom Search Engines. Also, Plenty Car is a collaborative and filtering automotive news site. (from Alt Search Engines, 3rd March 2008)
Ask May Dump Teoma For Google, Layoff 100 People - 2/29/2008
Ask is rumored to be considering switching to Google for search and subsequently downsizing its engineering team. According to Silicon Alley Insider, Ask may abandon or selling its Teoma search engine in favor of using Google for its search results. Teoma has powered Ask since it was acquired in September 2001. (from TechCrunch, by Duncan Riley, 29th February 2008)
Web inSuggest - new Swedish recommendation service for finding relevant web sites - 2/28/2008
Web inSuggest can, according to the owners, not really be called a search service, but is rather a recommendation engine. You tell the service what kind of sites you are interested in and get a list of similar sites in return. This list is based on the interests of other users, so the system is a bit similar to Amazon’s “People who bought this book also bought the following…” Web inSuggest comes in addition to the already existing Image inSuggest, which helps you identify related images from flickr. (from Pandia Search Engine News, by Lars Våge, 28th February 2008)
Quintura Releases Site-Specific Search Cloud Widget - 2/28/2008
Quintura, a site where you can search the internet with the assistance of a keyword cloud, is releasing a widget that brings the same search cloud to individual websites.Site owners can install the widget (shown below) and the search results will come only from their sites, or from a network of sites if they so choose. Search advertisements will show up in the cloud, and proceeds from click-throughs to those advertisements will be split with site owners. (from TechCrunch, by Mark Hendrickson, 28th February 2008)
Eurekster Debuts Improved Swicki Results Pages - 2/27/2008
Site-specific search provider Eurekster is today releasing a new version of its Swicki product that features a set community features on its results and home pages.The free Swicki search widget, used here on TechCrunch in the right-hand column, provides a cloud of popular search terms and leads to a page with results voted on by users and optionally collected from related sites. The new version attempts to bring even more attention to the site-specific Swicki community built around search. (from TechCrunch, by Mark Hendrickson, 27th February 2008)
Semantic Web Search Engine Roundup - 2/27/2008
Unlike traditional search engines, which crawl the Web gathering Web pages, Semantic Web search engines index RDF data stored on the Web and provide an interface to search through the crawled data. This article examines a list of Semantic Web search engines that are currently under development including Semantic Web Search Engine (SWSE), Sindice, Watson, Yahoo! Microsearch, Falcons, Swoogle , Semantic Web Search and Zitgist Search. (from Semantic Focus : by James Simmons, 27th February 2008)
AdSense For Video Comes Out of Private Beta. Can We Kill the Pre-Roll Now? - 2/21/2008
Nine months after launching its closed beta of AdSense for video, Google is finally opening up the advertising program to any publisher in the U.S. that serves one million or more video streams per month.The ads come in two formats: video and text. Both appear as banners along the bottom of the video. (from TechCrunch, by Erick Schonfeld, 21st February 2008)
Google Launching AdSense for Video - Minus the Video - 2/20/2008
After nearly a year in closed beta, Google is expected to announce tonight that its AdSense for Video program is now open to publishers. When the programs pilot was announced last May, AdSense for Video was intended to serve up video-in-video ads. Today the video part is gone, replaced by CPM banners and CPC text overlays. (from ReadWriteWeb, by Marshall Kirkpatrick, 20th February 2008)
Poor People More Likely Use Yahoo, Those Better Off To Use Google - 2/16/2008
New data released by Hitwise yesterday shows that there is a socio-economic difference between those frequently using Yahoo and those more frequently using Google. The graph right demonstrates “Online Representation” based on demographic types. The Y axis represents Yahoo, the X axis Google, with the higher the number, the more that particular group of users uses each service. Yahoo is strong in “struggling societies,” “blue collar backbone,” and “remote America,” where as Google obtains higher use in “small town contentment,” “affluent suburbia,” and “upscale America.” The size of each circle represents how many in each group have spent $500+ online. (from TechCrunch, by Duncan Riley, 16th February 2008)
Matchpoint Launches Local Business Search - 2/15/2008
Matchpoint, an online service for people to anonymously request and compare offers and proposals from businesses, announced today the beta launch of its service to include over 10 million local businesses across the United States. Consumers now have more options to quickly and privately get competitive offers from local businesses in their neighborhoods as well as from major corporations that operate nationwide. (from Alt Search Engines : February 15th 2008)
Nokia Plays Nice With Google In Mobile Search - 2/12/2008
Nokia is partially embracing Google by agreeing to put Google’s mobile search on some of its phones. It already ships phones with mobile search from Yahoo and Microsoft, so this isn’t that big a deal. But it does show that as Nokia prepares to compete with Google-based Android phones, the cell phone leader will incorporate some basic Google functionality into its own phones as a preemptive move. (from TechCrunch : by Erick Schonfeld, 12th February 2008)
Blue Organizer’s Latest Indigo Release Lets You Surf Things Instead of Web Pages - 2/12/2008
Semantic search applications are finally starting to gel this year. Tonight, Adaptive Blue is releasing the latest version (dubbed Indigo) of its FireFox add-on, Blue Organizer. Put simply, Blue Organizer lets you surf things instead of Web pages. It recognizes when a Webpage that you are browsing is about certain classes of things: books, movies, music, stocks, recipes, restaurants, blogs, wine, clothing, electronics, celebrities, musicians, hotels. And it creates shortcuts to other Webpges about that same “thing” (or object). Blue Organizer was developed by Alex Iskold, a frequent contributor to ReadWriteWeb. He raised $1.5 million from Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures back in February 2007, and is going to try to raise a B round soon. (from TechCrunch : by Erick Schonfeld, 12th February 2008)
Two innovative information portals - 2/11/2008
TextMap is an entity search portal. An entity can be a personalily, a town, a country, a company that is often in the news. This engine uses research techniques coming from natural language to extract the occurrance of each defined entity and statistical data display tecniques to present them. This tool allows you finally to sytehsise the geographic and temportal distribution of each one of these entities. Silobreaker is a web portal which allows to to access a considerable number of news items and to put them in perspective across extremely well done display tools. (from Google XXL : by Pierre Ehrlacher, 11th February 2008)
Google Overhauls Korean Search Engine, Adopting Universal Search - 1/30/2008
Google announced that they had done an overhaul on their Korean-language search engine, adopting universal search for the Korean site. Google is attempting to gain significant ground in South Korea, which just happens to be one of the world’s most wired countries. Lee Won-jin, director of Google Korea, said that the results-blending concept of universal searc, which has already been implemented in Google.com, has now been implemented in the Korean language version of the popular search engine. Universal search blends various types of search results, such as your standard website results, as well as videos, images, or even pages of books. It was first implemented at Google in May of 2007, when other top search engines also began employing the method. (by Julie Kent, Search Engine Journal, 30th January 2008)
Zvents makes Local Search pop! - 1/30/2008
Vertical search represents a powerful mechanism to find information on the web, and is a key category to watch in the search wars of the future. Another way of achieving a similar focus, in order to improve the relevance of search results, is by segmenting by location rather than by industry vertical - i.e. create a hyperlocal search engine that limits its search results to a given geographical area. One such alternate search engine is Zvents, which is relentlessly focused on local information, of any sort. This company, which has been around since early 2005, has just introduced an advanced feature called Federated Local search - basically, its own version of Universal Search. (from Alt Search Engines : 30th January 2008)
The Gray Areas of Search-Engine Law - 1/30/2008
The law is always playing catch-up with technology. But in the world of search-engine law, say some scholars, the courts have only begun to recognize the existence of a train leaving the station, let alone chase after it. The legal gray zones of Internet search are vast, says James Grimmelmann of New York Law School. But they still can be outlined and defined. In an article in the November 2007 issue of the Iowa Law Review , Grimmelmann writes that four broad areas of law—intellectual property, free speech, antitrust, and the openness of search algorithms—are still very much up for grabs in Internet search. (from IEEE Spectrum : by Mark Anderson, 30th January 2008)
Gary Price on the soul of Ask - 1/28/2008
The search engine Ask doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Pandia talks to Gary Price, Director of Online Info Resources at Ask about the soul of Ask and how this search engine works to improve your access to online information of all kinds. It’s all about simplicity. Gary demonstrates several Ask features, explaining enthusiastically about present possibilities and future plans. (from Pandia Search Engine News: 28th January 2008)
Find Something That Is “X” And Has “Y” With Circos - 1/28/2008
Keyword search gets you pretty far when looking for pure information, but doesn’t help much on more qualitative searches like trying to find the hippest restaurant in SOHO. Searches like the latter rely on the opinions of people, not webmasters, which is one of the reasons Circo’s has launched their new qualitative search engine. The engine currently lets users search for hotels and restaurants by qualities like size, ambiance, or other qualities pulled from reviews from around the web. They have plans to expand to other categories in the future. Circos is categorized under the ever expanding umbrella of semantic search engines, which currently includes the likes of Hakia, PowerSet, Kosmix, SemantiNet, Quintura, and TrueKnowledge. (from TechCrunch : by Nick Gonzalez, 28th January 2008)
Delver Comes Out Of Stealth With a New Twist on Social Search - 1/28/2008
Today at the DEMO conference, an Israeli startup called Delver (formerly Semingo) is coming out of stealth and announcing its upcoming launch as a semantic social graph search engine. Delver is attempting to solve two key search-related problems. The first is that current search engines do not take into account the identity of the searcher. The second is that current search engines do not allow users to search for information created and referenced by their own social graph. This is where Delver comes in. Search for “New York,” and the results that will pop up will be blog posts from people you know that mention or are about New York, or Flickr photos, YouTube videos, Delicious bookmarks, and the like. The technology, which has been in development since 2005, combines search technologies, semantics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). (from TechCrunch : by Roi Carthy, 28th January 2008)
Warner Music Sues Seeqpod - 1/25/2008
Warner Music has filed suit against music search engine Seeqpod for copyright infringement. Seeqpod offers a music search engine that allows users to play music they find directly on the site. According to comScore the service had over 6 million page views in December 2007. Warner Music claims in its suit that Seeqpod infringes on their copyrighted works by “making on-demand and unauthorized digital public performances of these works,” making a direct and material contribution to infringing content by presenting content from “pirate sites.” (from TechCrunch :by Duncan Riley, 25th January 2008)
Globally, Baidu Beats Microsoft in Search; Yandex Creeping Up On Ask - 1/25/2008
While Google dominates the top slot in search both in the U.S. and worldwide, with a global search market share of 62 percent, there is still a lot of elbowing going on below, especially when you look beyond the U.S. In a comScore ranking of the top-10 global search engines as measured by number of searches during the month of December, 2007, Yahoo comes in at a distant No. 2 with only 13 percent of global share. The big surprise, though, is the strength of local search engines in countries that don’t use the Roman alphabet. (from TechCrunch :by Erin Schonfeld, 25th January 2008)
The history of Fast Search & Transfer - 1/25/2008
If you are interested in the history of one of the CHORUS partners, Fast Search & Transfer, the Norwegian search company that is now to be acquired by Microsoft, you should take a look at the blog of Bjørn Borud of Google’s unit in Trondheim, Norway. He has now written an article series on the history of Fast, a series which opens with the following wonderful paragraph: “About 12 years ago, me and three other friends founded a company. We were young, single and what we lacked in experience and business sense, we made up for with pure hubris and a firm conviction that all problems are solvable.” Admittedly, this was not Fast, but another company that would become a part of the Fast adventure, but the argument holds for Fast as well. You have to believe in yourself in order to succeed as an IT pioneer. These people were the Norwegian equivalents to people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. (from Pandia Search Engine News: 25th January 2008)
Sweden’s Twingly To Launch Europe-Focused Blog Search Engine - 1/23/2008
Europe will have it’s own blog search engine - Twingly. According to Martin Källström, the company’s CEO, the focus of Twingly will be to have a spam-free engine (something none of the others can claim) at the cost of inclusiveness. And at least at first, the engine will be focused on European blogs. The search engine will be different from others, Källström says, in that it will be almost 100% spam free. The company has raised €1 million in a July 2007 round of financing from Servisen. They have seven employees. Look for a launch of their search engine in the next month or two. (from TechCrunch : Michael Arrington, 23rd January, 2008)
Porn only 6% of search terms - 1/22/2008
In this article, Rich Skrenta shows an analysis of AOL Search terms broken down by category. Interestingly enough, both Shopping and Entertainment show significantly more search volume than porn. (from Lightspeed Venutre Partners : by Jeremy Liew, 22nd January, 2008)
Search Engine iMedix named Best New Startup! - 1/21/2008
AltSearchEngines congratulates Amir and Iri and the whole team at alternative Health Search engine iMedix for being named the Best New Startup at the Crunchies! iMedix is a free website that helps you find and share health information. (from Alt Search Engines : 21st January 2008)
Video Search Summit April 2008 - 1/20/2008
Video Search News announces first annual Video Search Summit in San Fransisco.The conference on video search will take place on April 8th and 9th. The arrival of true broadband has turned the Internet into a realistic video distribution tool. The fact that Apple now is letting iTunes users rent videos online proves this point, as does the tremendous success of sites like YouTube. (from Pandia Search Engine News: 20th January 2008)
YouTorrent: Give It A Shot Before It’s Shut Down - 1/19/2008
This article is about YouTorrent, which is a fairly new BitTorrent search engine that has been getting positive reviews of late. The premise is simple: YouTorrent is a meta-search engine that indexes torrents from other sites (such as btjunkie, The Pirate Bay), then prioritizes the results based on the number of seeds and peers each torrent has. For those not familiar with BitTorrent, the more seeds and peers a Torrent has, the faster the file will likely download. As a meta-search engine YouTorrent doesn’t discriminate against legal and pirated content (yes, there is legal content on BitTorrent) so it’s a case of anything goes, and this is both a strength and a weakness. (from TechCrunch : by Duncan Riley, 19th January 2008)
Songza Adds More Songs With Help From Seeqpod - 1/18/2008
Today Songza just got bigger by embracing one of its rivals. The music-search engine (and Crunchies nominee) is incorporating song search results from Seeqpod, expanding the number of songs it can stream from 15.5 million to 23.5 million. Now you can get results from both music search engines in one place. Songza is also considering incorporating songs from Skreemr and other music search engines in the future. Previously Songza pulled songs solely from Youtube. Seeqpod is an MP3s search engine that finds songs and streams them from across the Web, including ones that may infringe copyright. (from TechCrunch : by Erick Schonfeld, 18th January 2008)
Search Atheism On The Rise - 1/17/2008
A new study from the University of Southern California’s Center for the Digital Future has found that a growing number of people no longer believe that search results are reliable and accurate.The survey found that only 51% of people trust information provided by search engines, down from 62% in 2006. Google, as the most popular search engine in the United States, isn’t trusted by nearly half (49%) of the people who use it, an interesting result. (from TechCrunch : by Duncan Riley, 17th January 2008)
A Crazy Job Search Engine - Crazy Like a Fox! - 1/17/2008
Jobfox is the inspiration of Rob McGovern. He was the Founder and former Chairman and CEO of CareerBuilder.com, and wrote the popular career advice book Bring Your ‘A’ Game: The 10 Career Secrets of the High Achiever. behind Jobfox. Their mission: Build the first online job service people love. They’ve built a new job fit engine that’s smart as a fox: it knows how to match people and jobs on The 10 Dimensions of a Good Job Fit. “ We help candidates showcase their unique skills and experiences so that employers will pursue candidates who are a great fit for their company and jobs.” says the Fox. (from Alt Search Engines : 17th January, 2008)
Could P2P Networks Enable a Google Killer? - 1/9/2008
Word association: P2P = Napster = disrupted the music industry. P2P technology certainly did that. Skype shook up telecoms and Joost may do the same for TV. P2P (Peer to Peer) networks could be a lot more. They could be the last big disruptive technology online. The online world is increasingly getting divided into a few mega firms that can afford to invest billions in server farms (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay) and the rest of us. (from ReadWriteWeb : by Bernard Lunn, 9th January 2008)
Delicious Integrated Into Yahoo Search Results - 1/9/2008
Yahoo is testing the integration of Delicious user generated bookmarks into Yahoo search results pages (Yahoo acquired Delicious in late 2005). Some users will see the Delicious icon as part of their normal search results, which tells them how many people have bookmarked those pages, as well as the tags people have supplied for those pages. What isn’t clear is if Delicious results are impacting search rankings, or if Delicious data is simply being integrated into the existing rankings. (from TechCrunch : by Michael Arrington, 19th January, 2008)
Microsoft offers to buy FAST for $1.2 billion; Likely to trigger enterprise search consolidation - 1/8/2008
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it will offer $1.2 billion in cash for Fast Search and Transfer (FAST), a big player in the enterprise search market.The move is sure to shake up the enterprise search market, which thus far has been dominated by a series of smaller players like FAST, Autonomy and Vivisimo. Google has made some inroads, but for the most part the market is the realm of niche players. Microsoft is about to change that with FAST. You can expect Google to make a purchase in enterprise search along with traditional enterprise players like HP, IBM and the usual suspects. (from Between the Lines Blog : by Dan Farber & Larry Dignan, 8th January 2008)
New Enquiro Whitepaper Shows Impact of Search and Sponsored Listings on Consumers - 1/3/2008
More and more, companies are realizing the importance of creating a strong online presence both in the free organic search results and the paid advertisements that appear alongside those results. The tracking features of website logs and the measurability of pay-per-click ads enable marketers to monitor the traffic of their organic listings and the performance of their online advertising campaigns. However, its comparatively more difficult to determine how the placement of those search listings and online ads affect consumer brand perceptions. (from Enquiro Research : 3rd January 2008)
Chacha launches New Mobile Initiative today! - 1/3/2008
In a landmark move, ChaCha announced today a new service that allows users to text questions of any kind to 242242 (ChaCha on a phone keypad) and to receive text answers on their cell phone. The answers are sent by a live person, called a ChaCha guide. The service is currently available as a free trial. The convenience of ChaCha’s new mobile answers service is unparalleled because it offers answers that people can’t easily find otherwise when they have questions on the go. (from Alt Search Engines : 3rd January, 2008)
New Search Engine www.WhatsOpen.com - 1/2/2008
WhatsOpen is a social search engine which has rolled out its public beta today. Users on a first come, first serve basis can signup to use the service on the web, iPhone, or Google Android equipped phones. By using proprietary algorithms and allowing users to contribute to the site by inputting their favorite locations, WhatsOpen now has a database to over 50 Million global listings, over 1 Million of which can be found live on the California beta now. Using algorithms for checks and balances, users can add, edit, upload, mash, share, invite, mob, and swarm to favorite locations and hot spots. An entire social platform, which currently powers the private alpha version, is being brought to the public beta in the first part of 2008. (from: Alt Search Engines :2nd January 2008)
The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko - 1/2/2008
Rich Skrenta, who created the first computer virus (Elk Cloner), co-founded the Open Directory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix, may have bitten off the biggest challenge of his career - taking on Google. In search. His new site, called Blekko has been started along with five others from the Topix core team. Although not yet funtional, Skrenta says they’ll launch a full scale search engine to compete with the big guys. (from TechCrunch : by Michael Arrington, 2nd January 2008)
France’s Orange Alt: Le Moteur (The Engine) - 1/2/2008
Orange has just launched a new Alternative Search Engine.The GUI is somewhat different compared to what we are used to seeing, but it is just a question of look & feel. The technology behind it seems to be www.voila.fr. According to the author of this article, there is nothing really new or innovative in the new search engine. (from Alt Search Engines : 2nd January 2008)
The Google Algorithm Is Changing - 1/1/2008
Google Operating System points out something interesting in Google’s algorithm recently: a preference in favoring recent content. Indexing recent posts has been a strength for Google, to the point that at least for areas like Blog Search they’ve become the defacto standard as others such as Technorati have struggled to keep up. Perhaps it’s the first step towards Google embracing Web 3.0 with semantic search that learns as it goes, constantly updating its results to suit the user at the time they are searching, complete with contextual awareness as well. (from TechCrunch : by Duncan Riley, 1st January 2008)
Google uses human evaluators to improve search results - 12/20/2007
Google continue to use human input for the evaluation of search results, Peter Norvig of Google says.Technology Review has an interesting interview in its January/February 2008 issue. They have interviewed Peter Norvig, director of research at Google. The main points made by Norvig are examined in this article. (from Pandia Search Engine News : 20th December 2007)
Google Wants To Index Your Videos - 12/18/2007
Google has launched Sitemaps for Video, an extension of their webmaster sitemaps program that will assist webmasters in having their videos indexed by Google. To be indexed, webmasters must create a sitemap page that provides a list of videos on each site that is compliant with Googles sitemaps protocol, which since November 2006 is standardized with Yahoo and Microsoft as well. Webmasters then simply submit the URL of their video sitemap to Google for indexing. (from TechCrunch : by Duncan Riley, 18th December 2007)
Google Pushes YouTube As An “Alternative” Way To Search for Video - 12/14/2007
Go to Google’s home page and at the top left you are given a number of options for refining your search: “Web, Images, Maps,” etc. At the end is a link for “more.” Click on that and at the bottom of the list, right after “Video,” you will find a new option: “YouTube.” Enter a search term and you are taken straight to YouTube’s homepage. Not the search results page on YouTube for that term. This is odd on many levels, not least of which is that every other search option returns actual search results on Google proper.Obviously, Google owns YouTube and can promote it any way it wants to. But how does this new search option help me as a consumer looking for videos? (from TechCrunch : by Erick Schonfeld, 14th December 2007)
Sequoia Invests in SEM-Automator Kenshoo - 12/10/2007
Sequoia Capital just invested in Kenshoo, an Israeli startup that automates the whole process of creating and managing search-engine marketing campaigns. It is a labor-intensive activity that has given rise to an entire cottage industry. Kenshoo competes with bid-management software from all the giants in online advertising (DoubleClick, aQuantive’s Atlas Solutions, and Omniture), but it goes a step beyond that to look at the quality of the campagns. (from TechCrunch : by Erick Schonfeld, 10th December 2007)
Health Search + Patient Social Network = iMedix - 12/10/2007
When you are sick or need to research a disease for an ailing relative, the two best places to go online are health search engines like Healthline or patient support group sites like Daily Strength. Tel Aviv startup iMedix wants to combine both: a vertical health search engine with a patient-to-patient social network. iMedix is a social search engine focussed on healthcare that has raised $2 million from angel investors. When you type in a search term, an auto-completed list of health and medical terms pops down to help guide your search. (from TechCrunch : by Erick Schonfeld, 10th December 2007)
Twenga gets €2.6 For Product Search - 12/7/2007
3i has invested €2.6 million in shopping search engine Twenga. Similar to other shopping search startups, Twenga is a meta search engine for products from online merchants. Twenga’s search results include user reviews and images on top of the usual price comparisons.There are a ton of shopping product search engines out there right now. Of the engines, Twenga is most like “The Find”. Search results are returned as a wall of product images and can be refined by price and features. It also has several advanced features include price tracking and user reviews. (from TechCrunch : by Nick Gonzalez, 7th December 2007)
Quintura becomes Alternative Search Engine of the Year - 12/1/2007
Quintura has won AltSearchEngine’s Alternative Search Engine of the Year award. Charles Knight at AltSearchEngines had nominated 10 search engines for the award. Among the favorites were Quintura, French Exalead and the Arabic search engine Onkosh. AltSearchEngines has now declared Quintura the winner. Quintura is a search engine based on a visual search engine technology and makes use of Yahoo’s index. It works quite nicely and we like it. (from Pandia Search Engine News : December 2007)
Will IRSeeK Have A Chilling Effect on IRC Chat? - 11/30/2007
New Israeli startup IRSeek is indexing public Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels at the rate of 6 million conversations a day. 300 million conversations have now been indexed by the company. The most popular networks, including EFnet, DALnet, Freenode and QuakeNetUndernet, are all being monitored - IRSeeK is now “listening” to 2000+ channels across 10 networks. IRSeek wants to make sure that future conversations are properly indexed and and searchable. It’s a huge untapped knowledge-base. (from TechCrunch : by Roi Carthy, 30th November, 2007)
Music Search Engines Tread Fine Legal Line - 11/28/2007
Music search engines are just one of the many ways to get free music on the Internet But for some users they are a near perfect way to listen to music on demand, and/or round out their music collection. This article examines three of these engines, SeeqPod, Songza and Skreemr. All three index the web, or parts of the web, looking for music files that people have uploaded to servers. However, the music these sites are playing is almost always copyright infringing. But it’s distributed on servers unaffiliated with the search engine itself, making it effectively impossible for the RIAA and its international equivalents to do much about it other than try to force the largest infringers to remove the content. (from TechCrunch : by Michael Arrington, 28th November, 2007)
Finer indexing of video content - 11/28/2007
Although automatic video indexing is developing constantly, with new technologies such as vido search engines, it remains difficult to find a particular passage from a 90 minute long video. In order to meet this need, which has been expressed by students, the Laboratory of Artifical Intelligence and Information Science of Massachusetts has developped a new search engine. This will help teachers to structure their video recordings and will allow students to have easier access to this material, according to James Glass, director of the Group on spoken language systems. On the prototype site, student can make a request among the 200 vdeos of conferences which are available and can play the passages which correspond to the results of their search. (from InternetActu.net : by Hubert Guillaud, 28th November 2007)
Gotuit Powering Video Search - 11/28/2007
Gotuit have made an “about face” when they ditched their online TV product (except for music videos) and refocused on powering video sites. Over the past year they’ve been striking deals to power video services for the likes of Sports Illustrated, EMI, Fox Reality, amongst others. Now they’re powering Extreme Outdoor TV network (XONTV), a web site dedicated to outdoor lifestyle videos. Gotuit’s video suite lets lets XONTV deep tag key points in videos. These tags form part of the meta data Gotuit uses to index and search through movies, making it possible to easily re-order short clips of long videos on demand. (from TechCrunch : by Nick Gonzalez, 28th November, 2007)
CHORUS CHORUS Metadata Workshop - 11/21/2007
The CHORUS workshop on Metatdata Models took place at the IRT in Munich on 21st and 22nd November 2007.
Pictures as hyperlinks - 11/19/2007
The research centre of Nokia in Finland organised an event named The Way We Live Next, to present the concepts on which the telephone manufacturer bases its work in the R&D centre. One of the services on exhibition, named Point&Find had as as its objective to connect the real world and virtual world via mobile phones. However the service risks being imperfect for a long time, as it depends obviously on the size of the database it is able to index. (from Internet Actu : by Hubert Guillaud , 19th November 2007)
Songza experiments with a transparent interface - 11/16/2007
Songza is a new music search engine that is based on a truly remarkable interface. The particularity of this service is to propose a transparent interface where all the functions are superimposed when clicked on or when the mouse passes over them. The result is a page that is extremely easy to navigate and results that are very easy to read. The interface used in Songza has been described as a human interface, as it is so user-friendly. Songza was created by Asa Raskin, the president of Humanized, a company that specialises in this type of interface and that proposes a very specific product. (from Fred Cavazza.net, 16th November 2007)
CHORUS NAVS Fall 2007 Concertation Meeting , Brussels, 13 - 14 November 2007 - 11/13/2007
CHORUS was present at the NAVS concertation meeting that took place in Brussels on 13th and 14th November. The meeting was attended by active FP6 projects, as well as some new FP7 projects. The work of the group is organised around three clusters, User Centric Media lead by Citizen Media, Media Delivery Platform lead by Astrals and Audio Visual Search, lead by CHORUS.
True Knowledge Launches Natural Language Search Engine - 11/8/2007
UK-based company True Knowledge released its natural language search engine into private beta on 7th November. Like the much-anticipated Powerset, the company aims to give appropriate answers to natural language queries, even if key query terms are not included in the data being indexed. Current search engines are unable to return appropriate results for these queries. At first glance True Knowledge and Powerset are competitors - but in fact they really aren’t. Powerset is both indexing the web and working to convert natural language queries into database-understandable queries. (from TechCrunch UK : by Michael Arrington, 8th November 2007)
Linqia - Social Network Vertical Search - 11/5/2007
Linqia is the world’s first online community and group aggregator and meta search engine. It has the largest directory of online communities and groups worldwide. Through the Linqia Community and Group Profile, you can immediately determine if an online community or group is a perfect fit for you. Linqia easily connects you to any online community or group that feed your passions, share your interests and fit your needs. (from Silkcharm Blogspot : by Laurel Papworth, 5th November 2007)
China Mobile Uses Google Search - 11/4/2007
Google technology is being tested on China Mobiles handset-accessible portal to search a variety of content, including sports, entertainment, news, ring tones, games, images and video. (By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek, Nov. 4, 2007)
Checkmate? MySpace, Bebo and SixApart To Join Google OpenSocial - 11/1/2007
Google may have just come out of nowhere and checkmated Facebook in the social networking power struggle. MySpace and Six Apart will announce that they are joining Google’s OpenSocial initiative. Silicon Alley Insider reported the MySpace rumor earlier today. Google has also confirmed Bebo is joining. (from TechCrunch : by Michael Arrington, 1st November 2007)
Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web - 10/31/2007
A new open web API called Open Social has been launched this week, which is being spearheaded by Google and joined by a wide range of partners including Googles own Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster, Salesforce.com, Oracle, iLike, Flixster, RockYou, and Slide. (from Blog PMarca.Com : by P Marca, 31st October 2007)
The next big thing: User-contributed metadata - 10/29/2007
User-generated content is a manifestation of Web 2.0, the participatory Net, which companies like Google (YouTube), Yahoo (Flickr), Fox (MySpace), etc. are feasting on. In parallel, users are contributing a potentially far more lucrative Web currency–metadata about themselves. In addition, users are also contributing structured (meta) data about data, which will help the semantic Web to flower. User contributed metadata is part of transforming the Internet, improving the signal to noise ratio and allowing more structure and intimate connections to permeate the Web. (from ZD Net : by Dan Farber, 29th October 2007)
Live Search Maps Getting Better At Giving Directions - 10/29/2007
Microsoft’s Live Search Maps have finally released its 3D Bird’s Eye view a couple weeks ago. Microsoft has also upgraded some of the basic features of its maps. For one thing, it has fixed what is considered to be a major bug in most mapping apps: overly-detailed driving directions. You can now have the option of skipping the first nine “turn left at the stop sign two blocks from your house” type of directions and just start the guidance from the nearest major highway—which you probably know how to get to anyway. Thank you, Microsoft, for treating us like humans. (from TechCrunch : by Erin Schonfeld, 29th October 2007)
Microsoft’s Live Search Maps Out to Beat Google Maps? - 10/29/2007
Microsoft is really serious on gaining a good ground in the web search arena. New features after new features are being slowly carried out by Live Search. The most recent of which are ten new features of its Live Search Maps.The Live Search blog enumerated these 10 new features and in brief here are those 10 nifty features. (from Search Engine Journal :by Arnold Zafra, 29th October 2007)
Google’s SearchMash Adds Snap Shot Previews. But Why Is It In Flash? - 10/25/2007
Google’s Web 2.0 search playpen, SearchMash, now has a Flash version. The Snap Shots are powered by Bill Gross’ search engine Snap.com. Flash is so pretty, but can it truly be as fast as Ajax? Maybe not, but it is getting fast enough for me. SearchMash is playing around with the search interface possibilities of each with two different versions of its site. Which is better? (from TechCrunch : by Eric Schonfeld, 25th October 2007
Pixsy to Power Search Engine on Lastminute.com - 10/23/2007
Media search platform provider Pixsy has signed a deal with bargain hotel and travel site lastminute.com that will see Pixsy operate a travel focused video and image search engine at lastminute.pixsy.com. The new service will allow users to search millions of travel photos and videos while simultaneously shopping for travel services. Pixsy was named a Top 50 Coolest Website by Time Magazine and first reviewed by TechCrunch in August 2006. (from TechCrunch : by Duncan Riley, 23rd October 2007)
StumbleUpon Expands Social Search Across the Web - 10/22/2007
If you are one of the 3.7 million people who have downloaded the StumbleUpon toolbar to your browser, you may have noticed that whenever a Website that’s been “stumbled” comes up in a Google, Yahoo, or Windows Live search, the StumbleUpon icon and its star ratings appear right beside the link in the results page. (A page that’s been “stumbled” means that a Stumbler found it useful and gave it a Digg-like thumbs up). Now, StumbleUpon is expanding that feature to search results for AOL and Ask, as well as for Google News, Yahoo News, Flickr, Wikipedia, and YouTube. StumbleUpon calls these SearchReviews. In addition to the general star ratings, members will also be able to see whether any of their friends have recommended or reviewed a particular site or page. (from TechCrunch : by Eric Schonfeld, 22nd October 2007)
Powerset Testing Search Results at Mechanical Turk - 10/21/2007
The search engine Powerset is using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to gauge user reactions to search results. Users are shown a query and a number of results and are asked to evaluate the relevancy of each result from five choices. Users are asked to evaluate four sets of results within ten minutes, and are paid $0.02 for the effort.The current batch of Powerset projects have run their course, and there are currently no other projects available on Mechanical Turk. Powerset CEO Barney Pell confirmed that they are using Mechanical Turk to get human feedback on search results. Tthe results are not all Powerset generated - rather, they show results from Powerset, Google and others to see which users prefer for a given query. This is an ongoing project, and new ones will be added soon. (from TechCrunch, by Michael Arrington, 21st October 2007)
eMusic Pro : 1er moteur de recherche des professionnels de la musique - 10/19/2007
Nidam Abi, a former journalist from Liberation who was in charge of music critiques, has developped and launched a search engine for music professionals and for all of those with an interest in music. The engine consists of an exhaustive repertoire of french music artists. (from Billaut Typepad Blog by Jean Michel Billaut, October 2007)
Twine Launches A Smarter Way To Organize Your Online Life - 10/19/2007
What Twine does is automatically generate smart tags and connect them together. Twine is putting structure onto all of the unstructured data that is out there by analyzing it and adding tags to it that are connected together. The network of links between these tags is something that Spivack calls the “semantic graph,” which includes the “social graph” that is made up only of those tags categorized as people. But the semantic graph is bigger than that, comprising other tags such as organizations, places, and other categories. (from TechCrunch : by Erick Schonfeld, October 19th 2007)
What will the search engines of the future look like? - 10/18/2007
In 2010, what will the results page of a search engine look like? Enquiro, specialist of BtoB research, has focussed on this question in their latest study, based on research carried out amongst search engine experts such as Marissa Mayer of Google, Larry Cornett of Yahoo, Justin Osmer from Microsoft and Michael Ferguson from Ask, to name but a few. In the study, Marissa Mayer believes that in the future it will be possible to obtain a search results page that ressembles an interactive encyclopedia. (Journal du Net : by Emmeline RATIER, JDN Solutions, 18th Octobre 2007)
Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App? - 10/18/2007
The aim of Twine is to enable people to share knowledge and information. At first glance it is very much like Wikipedia, but there is a whole lot more smarts to the system. Spivack described it to me as "knowledge networking"- i.e. it aims to connect people with each other "for a purpose". Using Twine, you can add content via wiki functionality (there are many post types), you can email content into the system, and "collect" something (as an object, e.g. a book object). (from ReadWrite Web : by Richard MacManus, October 18th, 2007)
CHORUS CHORUS Event on National Initiatives - 10/10/2007
Video recordings and presentations are now online for the Chorus event on National Initiatives that took place at the EBU in Geneva, Switzerland on 10th of October 2007.
CHORUS CHORUS and Quaro are explained in Pandia Search Engine News - 10/8/2007
In the first of several articles on European search engine research, Pandia takes a look at CHORUS and focus on the French search engine Quaero.
NAVS Fall 2007 Concertation Meeting - 10/7/2007
CHORUS was present at the NAVS concertation meeting that took place in Brussels on 13th and 14th November.
MESH Köln Germany - 10/5/2007
This one day event entitled 'Wag the Long Tail'was held on August 17th and had as it's subject 'Tools for Tomorrow's Multimedia Services & Distribution Today!'. The event was run by MESH and CHORUS.
CHORUS CHORUS participation at European Media Wrapper Round Table, Paris - 10/3/2007
Chorus was present at the second European Media Wrapper Round Table in Paris on 25th of october. Organised by the TITAN association, this was a dissemination event based on the concept of exchanging Media Assets between independant systems. The success of these exchanges depends on the pysical or logical wrapping of the essences, the metadata, the structures and the control to ensure a complete data model empowering the capability of various exploitations path and persistent archiving. This approach serves to feed the search engines, and during the presentation of Chorus work, some of the audience expressed their interest in particpation in the different working groups of Chorus. There were also several ther european projects involved in the development of the semantic web that presented their work: MEMORIES, REVEAL-THIS, and PrestoSpace.
Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google - 10/2/2007
There are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) - each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our opinion, will prove disruptive in the future. These innovations are classified into four types: Query Pre-processing, Information Sources; Algorithm Improvement; Results Visualization and Post-processing. (from Read/WriteWeb : by Nitin Karandikar, 2007)
Microsoft Releases Updated Live Search Engine - 10/1/2007
Microsoft Corp. is releasing an update to Live Search (http://www.live.com) centered on improvements to core search technology and deeper advancements in the vertical search areas of entertainment, shopping, local and health. The majority of Live Search customer feedback has focused on improving overall search relevance to deliver richer and deeper results and investing in differentiated experiences in high-interest consumer areas such as entertainment, shopping, health and local search. (from Microsoft: October 2007)
Yahoo Search Just Got Smarter - 10/1/2007
Yahoo have added some major features to its search engine. For instance, images from Flickr and playable videos are now embedded in the main results page. A search for a major rock band like U2 brings up information from the artist’s Website, along with a list of songs that can be played as 30-second audio streams (courtesy of Yahoo Music). Customized results also come up for searches dealing with health, sports, and events—all without you having to specify what type of search you are trying to do. (from TechCrunch : by Erick Schonfeld, 1st October 2007)
New Peer-to-Peer technology to allow free calls between mobiles - 9/19/2007
A Swedish business has recently developped a technology that will connect mobile phones to each other without passing by the operating network. The founder of this start-up called TerraNet explains that his technology allows mobiles connect directly, and creates a sort of mesh network thanks to the peer-to-peer technology. (YouVox Tech : 19th September, 2007)
Semantic reccommendations for mobile search - 9/11/2007
Mobile Content Networks, a company that specialises (Winner of Meffys) in search has announced the acquisition of the compnay Caboodle Networks for the multimedia platform Semantic, which takes into account the context of the users and categories linked together to make its recommendations and increase the quality of the results. This platform is already in operation by a few operators. This will allow search results to be obtained in 2 or 3 clicks, in practically any language, across all networks and mobile devices. Supplying a better user experience and offering real potential for having intelligent and appropriate results are obligatory for the development of m-commerce. (Services Mobiles : 11th Septebmer, 2007)
Japan to fight Google search dominance - 9/4/2007
Tokyo, alarmed by the global dominance of Google and other foreign internet services, is spearheading a project to try to seize the lead in new search technologies for electronic devices. The push has been sparked by concerns in Japan that the country’s pre-eminence in consumer electronics has faded and value in the technology industry is moving away from hardware. (By Mariko Sanchanta in Tokyo and Richard Waters in San Francisco,Financial Times, 4th September 2007)
A UK label uses image recognition - 9/3/2007
An English label (with more thant12000 titles) is launching a service which allows music fans to obtain information on music and receive immediately a Push wap to download ringtones, simply by taking a photo of the CD and sending it by MMS to their platform, the test is based on the Top 20 UK singles. The service is based on the image identification engine, developped by DS¨PV and put in place by MMS § Buy. (Services Mobiles :3rd September, 2007)
Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies: Theory and Applications, a book on Multimedia Ontologies - 9/1/2007
From AceMedia: This book seeks to draw together appropriate strands of work from the multimedia, the knowledge and the integrated multimedia-knowledge domains to present a fundamental work which can serve as a reference book for researchers going forward. It provides thorough coverage of all relevant topics, ontologies for low level multimedia feature representation (e.g. MPEG-7 and OWL), for higher level multimedia systems representations and for specific applications (e.g. 3D shapes). Editors: Paola Hobson, Ioannis Kompatsiaris. To be published by Springer-Verlag, expected date: September 2007.
Last Weeks in China - Netease Launched Yodao, Guge Sues Guge, some stats and rumors - 7/15/2007
This article looks at some of the recent news and develoments in China. Included in the article is the launch of the new search engine of Netease, one of China’s top online gaming and portal websites.The search engine is called Yodao and replaces the Google search engine. Also mentioned is Baidu which was recently launched in Japan and it was subsequently found that most traffic came from China as the results were uncensored. The censor got word of this and blocked Baidu.jp. The news is now that the majority of the visitors are from Japan. Read the full aricle here. (by Gemme, Search Engine Journal, July 15th 2007)
Gameskoot - a Video game Search Engine by Exalead - 7/4/2007
CHORUS partner Exalead, who are the European competitor of Google, are launching the first of a series of more specialised services. In partnership with the video game exchange service Splitgames, Exalead are launching Gameskoot, a video game search engine dedicated 100% to video games. (Ratiatum.com : 4th July, 2007)
CHORUS Multimedia Information Retrieval - New Challenges in Audio Visual Search - SIGIR workshop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands - 7/1/2007
This fifth workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval will take place in Amsterdam on July 27, 2007 in conjunction with SIGIR 2007. This full-day event will have a special focus on “New Challenges in Audio Visual Search”. This workshop follows four previous SIGIR workshops on multimedia information retrieval (1998, 1999, 2003, 2005), and aims to address and explore new challenges in multimedia information retrieval by bringing both researchers and practitioners together. We encourage submission and participation in this workshop not only from the core Information Retrieval community but also from researchers in databases, multimedia and image processing thus cross-fertilizing to information retrieval research.
Other search engines join Google in EU privacy probe - 6/22/2007
The European Union has decided to extend its investigation into the length of time that Internet search logs are stored to other search engines beyond Google. The EUs privacy working group has said that it is concerned over how much data is retained by various search engines and whether or not that information could get into the hands of hackers or overzealous governments. (ars technica : by Jacqui Cheng,June 2007)
Google Press Conference in Paris, details and video - 6/22/2007
For the announcement of the international versions of Google, Marissa Mayer detailed the vision of Google in the internet research ecosystem. For Marissa, there are 4 key points which characterise this activity on which Google is very focussed. (YouVox Tech : by Christian Jegourel, 22 June 2007)
Mahalo and 9 other people-powered search engines - 6/3/2007
Despite the huge success of Google, a new wave of people powered search engines is developing. The idea behind these search engines is that a person (as opposed to machine or system) decides which results to show in response to search queries and also to sometimes even assist the person conducting the search by taking the role of the computer. This leads to more relevant search reults and less time wasted. The search engines listed are: Mahalo, Wink, ChaCha, Search Wikia, Jookster, Sproose, Gravee, Eurekster, PreFound and MyWeb. (Mashable France : by Aziz Haddad, 3 June 2007)
IAD Research Centre Norway : PhD and Post-doctoral Grants - 6/1/2007
The IAD Research Centre has announced 4 PhD grants and 3 post-doctoral grants in the field of information access technologies. Partially funded by the Research Council of Norway as a Centre for Research-based Innovation (SFI), iAD is the only centre of its kind led by a commercial company. iAD will be directed by Fast Search & Transfer in collaboration with Schibsted, one of Europe’s largest media companies, Accenture, and leading universities: Cornell University, University College Dublin, Dublin City University, BI Norwegian School of Management and the universities in Tromsø (UiT), Trondheim (NTNU) and Oslo (UiO). Information access technology has emerged as one of the most innovative technology areas impacting a wide range of industries, business models and even social patterns. The iAD Centre targets core research for next generation precision, analytics and scale in the information access domain. Over then next 8 years, iAD will mobilise more than €30m in public and private funding. (from IAD Research Centre Norway, June 2007)
The Invasion of Vertical Search Engines - 5/29/2007
This article (in French) covers the topic of the increasing number of vertical search engines that are available on the internet, despite the dominance by the major search engines. Some interesting search engines are referred to, such as: GameSkoot, a seach engine dedicated to video games Sputtr, a search engine specialising in collaborative sites SimpleWeather, a meterological search engine. (From FredCavazza.net, June 2007)
German Games search engine Wazap is coming to America. - 5/28/2007
The German company Wazap saw traffic of 16 million unique users on 250 million page views in April. The Alexa data for Wazap gives the site a ranking 1435 worldwide with Wazap being the 144th most popular site in Japan and 612th in Germany. These are remarkable numbers, a sign that as a gaming destination Wazap is likely to find success in the largest gaming market of them all, the United States. Wazap sticks to its core as a games search engine by providing multiple sources of data in an accessible form. User reviews lead results with external information following down the page. (From TechCrunch, June 2007)
Fooooo,Japans Video Search to Make International Splash - 5/22/2007
Japanese video search engine Fooooo com has expanded into the International scene with new video search versions in English, Russian, Chinese and French. According to Motoko Hunt of MultiLingual Search, Foooo launched its beta version in March of 2007 and now searches over 28 million videos from sites such as YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion and Ask jp Video. (By Loren Baker, Search Engine Journal, May 22, 2007)
The End User : Search for Tomorrow - 5/9/2007
Informative article about CHORUS, incorporating an interview with Nozha Boujemaa, Scientific Coordinator of CHORUS. (by Victoria Shannon, International Herald Tribune, 9th May 2007)
New P2P Service for Mobile Devices - 4/15/2007
PeerBox Mobile is a new peer-to-peer file sharing service for mobile devices. With PeerBox, users can search and download content from open P2P networks, access the vast Nareos content catalog, and watch videos on PeerBox Channels. The system is integrated with 3rd party Robust Audio Hashing (fingerprinting) technology to recognize copyrighted content and collect payments for it. (PeerBox - April 2007)
TV Guide : A new EPG available online - 4/15/2007
This recently launched EPG TV Guide provides a comprehensive online guide to TV Shows and listings, movies, videos & photos, and news & views. The site provides the option of a personalised TV Guide for registered users. (from TV Guide,April 2007)
Comment les internautes lisent les résultats de recherche - 4/15/2007
With the ever increasing amount of information available today on the worldwide web, information and website searches are more popular than ever. Consequently, search engines that list results in order of relevance have become a necessity, and site editors need to develop referencing strategies. But how to web users read these search results? How many do they see? How does the position of the result on the page influence visibility? What elements do web users pay most attention to when they read the search results? This aritlce (en francais) examines these questions and gives an analysis of eye tracking. (Journal du Net : April 2007)
Interview (in french) with Nozha Boujemaa, Scientific Coordinator of CHORUS - 4/7/2007
This is an interesting informative interview with Nozha Boujemaa, Scientific Coordinator of CHORUS, with a description of the CHORUS project including background and objectives. (From Journal du Net, April 2007)
Distributed Search: The MINERVA Project - 4/5/2007
The MINERVA Project is a P2P distributed search engine. The directory is implemented in a completely decentralized and largely self-organizing manner. More specifically, it is maintained as a distributed hash table (DHT) using the (re-implemented and adapted) algorithms of the Chord system. The MINERVA Project per-peer engine uses the global directory to identify candidate peers that are most likely to provide good query results. A query posed by a user is forwarded to other peers for better result quality. The local results obtained from there are merged by the query initiator. (Max Planck Institut Informatik - April 2007)
P2P: Potential Future Applications - 4/3/2007
This is Part 2 of a series of articles on P2P networks. Broadband speeds are ever increasing and so the demand for peer-to-peer networks is also increasing. However many things that could be accomplished by P2P networks are still in development or research. This article looks at some of the future applications for P2P on the internet, including Search Engines, Video and Audio Casting, Mobile P2P applications, and E-commerce. (from Read/write web, 3rd April 2007)
Nokia Developing Semantic Visual Search Engine for Mobile Devices - 3/30/2007
Nokia is working to develop a Semantic Visual Search Engine to organise the multimedia content on mobile phones. The technology will enable a system to learn, catergorize and search items such as images and video clips according to their semantic meanings. (From Search Engine Journal : by Loren Baker, 30th March 2007)
Get Some Video Ad Accountability (Focus on Video Advertising) - 3/1/2007
The biggest players are still scratching their heads about how to define and quantify accountability. Web analytics companies can provide ongoing, trended results for the largest video advertisers and domains. Most video advertisers target specific demos or interests and make buys on specific domains. For the new video ad marketplace to gain traction, these suppliers should create metrics that work for large and small advertisers alike. (From Search Engine Strategies :by Deborah Richman, March 2007)
Google To Power Search On Chinas Xunlei Downloading Service - 1/5/2007
Following on the heels of a new partnership with China Mobile, announcement signals the search companys push to become a bigger player in China. Google has signed a deal to provide the search engine for Xunlei, a Chinese download service for videos, games, and other content. (By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek, Janv. 5, 2007)
Europe Earmarks $11 Million For Advanced Multimedia Search Platform Research - 12/21/2006
The effort is called the Platform for Search of Audiovisual Resources Across Online Spaces and is scheduled to cover a 36-month period. The European Commission is moving to get a jump on developing multimedia technologies by funding a comprehensive research project that will provide an advanced audiovisual search platform. (By W. David Gardner,InformationWeek, Dec. 21, 2006)
AOL-Netscape Launches Massive “Digg Killer” - 6/14/2006
On Thursday, AOL’s Netscape property will no longer be just another portal - it’s being converted into a Digg-killer. From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington

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