Danny Sullivan has a nice article on Search Wars: Battle of the Search Superpowers, which discusses the history of competition between the various search engines, and where the battles will lead us, with Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft leading the way.
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Shortcut to better research
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines, Search Tips
Using shortcuts at the various search engines is a terrific way to get your research done quickly and efficiently. Finding out about these shortcuts is the hard part. Greg Notess points you to shortcuts of some of the major search engines in Search Engine Prefixes and Shortcuts.
Search Engine Overlap
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
In many of the seminars I give on search engines and legal research, I point out that it is a mistake to rely on only one search engine, because the overlap between the various search engines is not that great. Now there’s a way to see that for yourself, graphically.Thumbshots is a ranking comparison…
Where loyalty has its drawbacks
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search
A recent study by iProspect on search engine loyalty finds that 56.7 of Internet users use the same search engine when performing research. This, of course, is contrary to the advice that I and others give about using search engines: use a search engine according to the type of search you are conducting. In the…
Searching for Science
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Posted in Search Engines
The IPO to end all IPOs
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
In case you haven’t heard, Google is going public. Danny Sullivan offers a closer look at the filing.
I could waste a lot of space in this blog covering the IPO — if you want to keep up with the latest, keep on eye on Watching Google Like a Hawk.
NPR takes on search engines
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
I am getting to this item late, but better than never, I suppose. National Public Radio ran a series of reports on the search engine wars a few weeks ago; the programs are all available for listening on one page.
Behold A9
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
So Amazon is getting into the search business, eh? Yesterday the online retail monster unveiled A9, which appears to be a promising new addition to the search engine world. First of all, it relies on Google’s search results, so you can’t go wrong there. But it also adds several intriguing features of its own.…
Ask Jeeves about famous people
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Ask Jeeves has introduced a new service that allows users to obtain biographical information of famous people as part of its Smart Search feature.
The Onion as news influencer
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Information Quality
If you read this blog with any regularity, you’ll know I am a huge fan of the Onion — if you don’t visit it every Wednesday, you should. It contains some of the best satire available on the Internet. It’s not always clean, but it’s usually very funny.
Apparently, many people don’t understand the concept…