I've been using the Bloglines blog search a lot lately, and if you haven't tried it out, you may want to give it a spin. Danica Brinton, head of International Product Management and Localization for Ask.com, was interviewed about the blog search...
A paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology conference in Munich near the end of March, Indexing Shared Content in Information Retrieval Systems (pdf), jointly authored by employees of Yahoo, Google,...
Microsoft describes the use of block level analysis to improve mobile browsing, writes of allowing searchers to customize search results, presents a query refinement system which provides concepts for users to choose from, and offers a look at a...
The patent for pagerank has been updated, Hewlett-Packard introduces advanced searching options for searchers, IBM patents a query translation server to help search engines provide search results in more languages than English, Microsoft...
When it was announced earlier this year that Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates would be joining Yahoo, part of the agreement involved him continuing to work with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. An event sponsored by Yahoo and the Web Research Group of the...
Yahoo provides an XML based bid management tool, and a way to maintain a persistent link to dynamic information between a browser and specific web pages. Microsoft marries email and search to provide a way store and track queries, and also...
New patents from this week from Yahoo on indexing by concepts and on uses of scripts on different computers to share data between them. Microsoft looks at reranking search results based upon redundancy, annotations on web pages, and showing web...
A number of patent applications published last week proved intriguing. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO) filings offered us additions to Google phrase searching and predictive queries, some enhancements to interacting with ecommerce...
When someone uses a search engine to try to locate information about a subject which they know very little about, a simple search interface isn't very helpful. These types of endeavors have been referred to by information scientists as...
Some new patents and patent applications from the last week cover a wide range of search related topics. On Tuesday, I wrote about some possible enhancements to Ask's Binoculars. Yahoo seems to be looking at providing more information on search...
On its surface, the Binoculars feature in search results at Ask.com seems to only provide a preview of a page that you can visit. But, there may be more going on beneath the surface than a simple preview. There are attributes of this preview...
Can whois information be used by a search engine to rank web pages? Is Google using whois information in their ranking of web pages? Some research on a recent trilogy of Go Daddy patent applications raised those questions in my mind. The...
A new Yahoo patent application published today builds upon a method for finding reputable pages on the web to reduce web spam when ranking web pages to present as search results. When Combating Web Spam with TrustRank was published back in...
With Google quiet, a recent flurry of activity burst out at the US Patent and Trademark Office from Microsoft and IBM, including the granting of a patent on a music search engine, another on searching recorded voice, and patents (and patent...
There were 4251 patents granted on April 18, 2006. Following are five that looked like good candidates for my first post on search patents as SEW's new patents correspondent. They include a Yahoo patent on money exchanges; a Google patent on...
Before I begin on some new patents that were granted on April 18th, I'd like to thank Danny, and the rest of the team here for asking me to join them. On how I got here… A couple of years ago, I found myself spending a fair amount of...
