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Google & Microsoft Are Battling It Out At The Mapping Front

Google may have its advantages over Microsoft when it comes to online advertising. But over to mapping services and we can see that both Google and Microsoft are fast aiming to get ready an array of services that will drive the navigational web. Today, most of the queries on search engines are informational with a minor percentage being transactional and navigational. With a flurry of internet ready mobile devices waiting to enter the market, things...

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SenseBot Releases FireFox Plugin for Google Result Summaries

SenseBot is a search engine that produces summaries of the results that appear when you perform a search. Its a tool that is very useful when you want to make sense of a topic and there's a deluge of content from the web to choose from. Now, SenseBot has provided a FireFox plug-in that integrates with Google search as well as provides summary for any web page. From the SearchBot Web Page: You can download...

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Q&A With Nathan Enns, CEO at FyberSearch

Nathan Enns started working on FyberSearch at the age of 19. Having developed the engine from scratch, Nathan has been following the search space for quite some time, at the same time adding more features to FyberSearch. Here are a few questions that Nathan took the time to answer for SEJ. 1. How is your advertising technology, services and tools different from that offered by other search engines (major)? Our advertising program combines the benefits of pay...

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Mark Cramer, CEO of SurfCanyon on Search & Importance of User Feedback

Search Canyon deploys technology that helps disambiguate search queries, essentially assisting the user to dig deeper into results, suggesting links that makes a better match to results the user seeks recommendations on. The approach is unique in the sense that it makes search an ever continuing process where the machine assists user through a continuous feedback loop. The engine integrates well with Google, Yahoo and MSN Live results. Mark Cramer, CEO at Surf...

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GGoal : Searchers Define their Search

Algorithms, natural language processing, artificial intelligence - the list is endless in the quest for the perfect technique to make computers do what humans are capable of. Now, a search engine does away with the machine completely. GGoal is a total human powered engine, no machines, all organic. An excerpt from the About page: Ggoal is a search engine "based on" human intelligence, created by users and for users, with the sole aim of...

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Relona CTO, Kumar Ramanathan on Relona, Relevancy and Search

Few days back there was an article at SEJ on Relona, a search technology start-up which used unique technology to add more relevance to results from major search engines like Yahoo, MSN Live and Ask.com. Kumar Ramanathan, Chief Technology Officer at Relona graciously answered a few questions on Relona and search via e-mail. 1. Can you provide us some information on the roots of Relona and how you got started on the...

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United States Far Behind in Mobile Usage and Technology

David Kirkpatrick, senior editor at Fortune Magazine has written a great article summarizing some technology statistics that have come out as result of the 2008 Global Internet Snapshot compiled by Imran Khan, senior analyst for Internet, media and entertainment at JP Morgan. An excerpt from the article: But for cell phones it's a different story. Here the United States is a laggard, with 77.4 subscribers per 100 people. The place to see the potential for...

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23andme : Social Networking Comes to Genomics

The trend today is about 'socialnetworking-zing' everything. From corporate portals to hotel sites, the buzz is about how to get users to sync with other individuals and share content online. I think it was only time that genomics also got on the bandwagon – a reason why the latest announcement from 23andme is not much of a surprise. An excerpt from Technology Review Avey and Wojcicki hope that, as with traditional forms of...

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Mobile Search : World of Opportunity

Search, as the work horse of the internet, has delivered much. Though search as a problem is far from solved, there are many advantages that accrue from the imperfection of search engines. Firstly, there is this new skill that one gets to hone in identifying and getting to the answers one seeks from a whole pile of content. Then there is the obvious market for search optimization since in the perfect search world, the engine...

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Searchme : A Refreshing Search Interface

Many have pointed out that the success of Google is as much its relevance algorithm as its simple clutter free approach to the user interface. Now, a search company is working on the interface front to provide a refreshing approach to presentation of search results. The iTunes 'Coverflow' inspired view at Searchme lets you browse through the snapshot of pages that are returned from search. I found this similar to...

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