37 posts tagged “search-engines”
2008
Quotation search in Google News (via) Extremely impressive application of (I suppose) natural language processing in Google News—it now extracts quotations from news stories, even handling things like “he said” and “she said” and resolving them back to the speaker.
2007
Google Image Search does faces (via) The undocumented imgtype=face parameter. Kind of creepy.
How to beat Google, part 1. Rich Skrenta with 12 steps to taking on Google in the search engine space, including some great insights in to smart UI design.
The bright side: web spam is an evolutionary force that pushes relevance innovations such as trustrank forward. Spam created the market opportunity for Google, when Altavista succumbed in 97-98. Search startups should be praying to the spam gods for a second opportunity.
2004
Google Search: spong monkeys. I’m second. Rock!
2003
Google conspiracy theories
Microdoc News have a poorly researched story suggesting that Google have been engineering their search results to favour their own properties:
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Google roundup
I’ve missed out on a whole bunch of Google news lately (all of which has come via the Google Weblog). Google labs have a couple of interesting new demos; Google Viewer, a weird slideshow thing that cycles through search results for you using bizzare DHTML and Google Webquotes, which annotates the results of your Google search with comments from other websites
. Google have also published their End-of-Year Zeitgeist which offers a unique overview of the year’s events based on Google search statistics.