Yahoo! needs something strong and innovative to come out of the shadow of Google, and recently Microsoft. It has taken the route of letting others build on its search results, and I think this is a good approach. [Continue]
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ifacethoughtsYahoo! needs something strong and innovative to come out of the shadow of Google, and recently Microsoft. It has taken the route of letting others build on its search results, and I think this is a good approach. [Continue]
Apache Lucene can be said to be one of the strong applications that can draw you towards Java land. Either you choose Java for your work or you end up writing a Java layer to make use of that. There are many applications which are not very good at search, and it is mainly because efficient fulltext search engines are not easily available. [Continue]
Wikia Search is going to be interesting, even though it has got some bad reviews. It is nowhere near a full-scale search engine today, but the intention is still there. The UI might not be cool or it might not be yet as deep as Google, but its true differentiator is going to be transparency. [Continue]
Google, which is all about unique algorithms, page ranks and huge data centres, has started experimenting with using humans, that is you and me to vote for search results. At least that is what it seems as. This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. [Continue]
The string in the title should search for the phrase “weird patent” in the a9.com search engine. Apparently, the Amazon subsidiary was awarded this patent. To be more precise, no one else can now support inclusion of unformatted search string after domain name portion of URL, without permission from Amazon. [Continue]
Dave Sifry updated his blog today with changes in the new Technorati. As I’ve blogged about before, the world has changed. Whereas folks using Technorati a couple of years ago were predominantly coming to us to search the blogosphere to surface the conversations that were most interesting to them, today they are increasingly coming to our site to get the 360 degree context of the Live Web - blogs of course, but also user-generated video, photos, podcasts, music, games and more. [Continue]
I am wondering if Wordpress 2.1 pseudo cron scheduling framework can be used to index the content or maybe integrate an external search solution. This can help in returning relevant search results as well as search in multiple fields, not just the post body. I am doing some experiements to improve search, but I feel that none of them will be better than a native search solution. [Continue]
It was interesting to read the impact of the search engine company and its philosophy on the user experience. Gord Hotchkiss has analyzed interviews with usability teams of the three bigwigs - Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Gord also looks at the balance of user experience and monetization each of them are setting with. [Continue]
Lorelle’s comment jump-started my will to look for better Wordpress search. After some digging around, I decided that I did not want to change the database structure as that could cause problems with future upgrades. This threw away most of the search plugins out. [Continue]
Peter Krantz has created a search engine for searching Web Accessibility Guidelines using Google co-op. A lot of countries have developed their own accessibility guidelines, over the WAI guidelines. Peter has collected links for regulations for these countries. [Continue]
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