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Query Refinement by Edison The quirky, attention-getting billboards proclaiming that "The algorithm killed Jeeves," or "The algorithm is from Jersey" have been stirring up conversation in the industry, not all of it positive.
But it's a start and you're going to see more of this, even at places like Google which has used midpage query refinement for nearly two years now. Meanwhile, I have great sympathy for the fact that the major search engines could definitely do a...
Light's Custom Search Folders: Clustering and query refinement is something Google's still experimenting with today, but it's been in place and used by others for years. AltaVista's Refine Feature: The next time someone pitches you that we'll be...
The Zoom query refinement feature that Jeeves added to web search results last year offers additional search suggestions, but rather than presenting a list of related topics that are essentially keyword driven, Zoom presents suggestions that are...
Ask Jeeves Launches Their Own Image Database, New Refinement Features Also Ask Jeeves gets its own image search engine and more! Conversations with IAC/InterActive (Ask Jeeves) CEO Barry Diller Search Data Request Has Searchers Pondering Their...
a patent revealing more on how the Google Suggest query refinement tool works, Google to offer a feed API, a new video search and sharing tool called YouTube, tips on tracking Santa for next year, will sharing money with searchers win an...
The site is in beta, and offers only a basic search with no refinement or advanced search tools, so results vary widely in quality depending on what you're looking for. Ask Jeeves Adds Multimedia Search - Ask Jeeves has announced a content...
Query Refinement, The Human Scale Problem Ask Jeeves butler and more! Jeeves Blog & Campaign Distribute Google Toolbar McNealy Says, Google Google AdWords Today's search podcast covers more on Google and Sun partnering to distribute the Google...
Robert Scoble Wants What We Had -- Better Query Refinement. More On Query Refinement, The Human Scale Problem Search Engine Roundtable's Barry Schwartz Proposes Via Ask Jeeves Search Results Today's search podcast covers more on Google's...
More comments from Jim on that are below, along with a further look at the scale issue and the need for the Google Generation to rediscover query refinement. It's no wonder people today may not even realize there are query refinement options out...
In short, Robert wants better query refinement. See also the follow-up article, More On Query Refinement, The Human Scale Problem & Creating The Search Dialog. Robert Scoble Wants What We Had -- Better Query Refinement.
Jeeves-style refinement. In short, Robert wants better query refinement. Yahoo's human compiled directory structure helped make the service popular in my book because the directory lead to query refinement in a way the crawlers couldn't match.
Ask Jeeves Gains "Zoom" Query Refinement & "Web Answers" Features Ask Jeeves Unleashes More Smart Answers Google Joins Yahoo & Ask With Direct Display Of Stock Market Data In Results Information for Sale: My Experience With Google Answers (Oct.
More Testing Of Middle Of The Page Query Refinement At Google Ask Jeeves Unleashes More Smart Answers - Long before MSN, Yahoo, or Google began including answers (not just links) for specific types of ready reference questions in web results sets...
More Testing Of Middle Of The Page Query Refinement At Google Ask Jeeves Unleashes More Smart Answers - Long before MSN, Yahoo, or Google began including answers (not just links) for specific types of ready reference questions in web results sets...
Over the past few months, we've had Google testing three ads up top rather than two, clustered results, a "more results" experiment and this current query refinement test. Out is the "Dissatisfied" query refinement we wrote about earlier this month.
The query refinement enhancement, called Zoom, expands the "related topics" search suggestions displayed in the right column of Ask Jeeves search results. The Zoom query refinement feature offers additional search suggestions, but rather than...
Once you've manually changed a rating it gets "locked" so that further contextual refinement won't change its relative importance. Currently, Aware uses AltaVista, Google, MSN and Yahoo as web search sources—notably missing is Ask Jeeves/Teoma.
In Danny's blog post about the new Google Suggest beta he mentions a similar type of query refinement tool available from AOL's new Pinpoint Shopping. It's also worth mentioning that Surfwax has offered a dynamic query refinement tool called...
Google is long, long overdue to provide query refinement tools that other search engines have had for ages. Google's beta tested refinement links like this in the past against a small random sample of searchers.
