Meta-search tools went through a hard time during Google’s ascendance to the top of the search engine heap. But they have learned, their lessons, and they are ready to be useful to you again.
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The sunny side of the web
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Susan Gerhart, a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, asks the question, Do Search Engines Suppress Controversy? For more information on this subject, check out her main page. The answer to her question: yes, to some extent search engines do not list controversial sites on search results. The lesson here is to make a…
Yellow Pages getting the message?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search
In a follow-up to my earlier post on how online yellow pages just don’t measure up, here’s a story on how SuperPages may have decided that it’s cheaper and more profitable to have local search results available online.
Stem searching now automatic
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Google has begun auto-stemming some of its searches. Here’s how it will work. Greg Notess states that this new feature may help relevance in some cases, but there are two potential problems: 1) it will be frustrating for searches looking for precise results; and 2) Google really should give users an option to “turn on”…
One in a Hundred
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Vivisimo, one of my favorite search tools, has been named one of the the Top 100 ‘companies that matter most in digital content management’ by EContent Magazine. If this site isn’t one of the tools in your search arsenal, you’re really missing out.
Tab Hunter? Don’t bother
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Yesterday’s SearchDay has a terrific article on how the future of search will rely on searching with invisible tabs. Chris makes an interesting observation; that when people go to a search engine (or any website, for that matter), they often don’t see that there are navigation tabs across the top of the page that…
The month in search engine news
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Like clockwork, Chris Sherman has posted the Search Engine Milestones for November 2003. Catch up on what’s new in search engines here.
Quaero ergo Google (or something like that)
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
PC Magazine features an article on how Google has become an online cultural icon in I Search, Therefore I Google. The article includes a fun link to a snapshot of Google in 1998. Interesting how things have changed — but not much.
Link Rot a growing problem
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Information Quality
The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center reports that references contained in Internet documents are often gone within months of being posted, which can lead to big information gaps.
I have this problem with my weblog — every now and I again I try to check the links on this site, to make sure…
Search audio/video at AOL
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
AOL has purchased SingingFish, the audio/video search engine I mentioned back in February. Danny Sullivan has the lowdown on the purchase, as well as other search enhancements at AOL.