It seems that companies are finally asking that question, to better understand how people use search engines. Some of the results are discussed by Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman in Search Engine User Attitudes.
Search Engines
The battle for our desktops
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Who will win? It looks like Google has plans to offer a desktop search tool, one that’s different from a toolbar or a deskbar.
More than a search engine?
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Danny Sullivan laments the possible return to the days where search engines had to do much more than just search in order to attract users, in Return to the Sad Days of More Than a Search Engine?
More on Search Engines
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If yesterday’s April search engine milestones didn’t satisfy your need for news on search tools, then check out Greg Notess’ Internet Search Engine Update over at Online Magazine.
The month in search engines, April 2004
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Posted in Search Engines
In case you missed the search engine news in April, Chris Sherman has the highlights with the Search Engine Milestones of 2004.
Missing from Google
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Posted in Search Engines
Did you know it’s possible for someone to remove pages of certain websites from the Google index? Well, it was for a brief period this past week, when several websites (including Microsoft and Adobe) were inadvertently removed from Google’s index for a short period of time. Apparently this was due to a bug that allowed…
Even MORE Shortcuts
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Posted in Search Engines, Search Tips
Not satisfied with the shortcuts Greg Notess showed you yesterday? Then head over to SearchDay, where Gary Price offers More Yahoo Search Shortcuts.
The search war is afoot
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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.
Shortcut to better research
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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
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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…