User actions that qualify an explicit query include those where a user hits "enter," clicks on an algorithmic or sponsored result, clicks one of the various refinement links (such as past 24 hours, etc.or clicks on a vertical search tab to execute...
Yahoo added query refinement tools like Search Assist for users, which are already found in Google Suggest and Ask3D. Even Google got involved, with the launch of its OpenSocial APIs. The trend began in May with Google's launch of Universal Search.
The biggest changes are the introduction of Search Assist, a pre-search query refinement tool that Yahoo has been testing since July; and blended search results that include more photos, videos, and Shortcuts.
Yahoo Continues Search Suggestions RolloutYahoo has been on a search refinement kick lately, which continued on Friday with the release of Search Suggest for Yahoo Toolbar for Internet Explorer. Increase your ROI with Google Performance Placement...
Google Suggest was the first to offer this type-ahead, pre-search query refinement in its Labs beginning in December 2004. Yahoo has begun testing Search Assist, a new search refinement that could have an impact on search marketers for its ability...
AskCity is awesome, their blog search kills, and the Smart Answer and query refinement tools Ask has been using for years are just now starting to be adopted by the other engines. Google's service isn't great (the most glaring check against them...
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...
Designed as a query refinement tool for searchers, the Google Suggest tool provides another way to quickly gauge terms you might want to target based on Google query data. For more on the tool, see this SEW Blog post, Google Suggest Offers Query...
Certainly it's nice to see the query refinement given better play than on Query refinement has long felt neglected, as Wants What We Had -- Better Query Refinement. But it probably is the most sophisticated or substantial query refinement feature...
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...
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...
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. In short, Robert wants better query refinement.
Google's problem is that it among the majors has never offered query refinement and is long overdue to do so. As for query refinement in general, see my Google Ranking Itself Tops For Britney Spears blogs marketing.
Google is literally years behind providing query refinement support to searchers. Google Suggest is More more on this topic, also see More On The Endless Betas Of Google and if you're a Search Engine Watch member, my
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...
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.
Google is notable among the major search engines for not offering search refinement assistance like this. But refinement at Google certainly would help for the odd person interested in apples you can eat.
Search refinement can also be a huge help. Ever wish you could help Google understand that a particular word in your query is more important than another? We've had to remove link spam from Google results on very few occasions, including the...
And about time -- every other search engine offers some type of query refinement tool. Use Google often and want to track the same query over time? It will run a query, then check each day to see if there are any changes.
