The second is cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). Yahoo Enhances Travel MapsYahoo has added some mapping features to Yahoo Travel, using AJAX to add layered images right on a Yahoo Map.blinkx Adds French VODEO.TV ContentThrough a...
Three radio buttons below the search box allow the searcher to limit their search to Spanish language content (default), sites from Spain, or the entire web. The problem is that given this is a text-only newsletter, URLs are extracted from the...
Infoseek launches five new country or language-specific services: Infoseek Nederland, Infoseek Danmark, Infoseek Brasil, Infoseek Sverige and Infoseek en Espaqol (a worldwide Spanish service). Yahoo launches Spanish-language service, Yahoo en espaqol.
This version for Search Engine Watch members offers specific tips for marketing to Spanish speaking Internet users, including overcoming language challenges with keyword matching and spelling correction systems, and the best web sites to target...
That's already the case in the UK and on some other non-US/English language sites, where Newsbot was released last year. In my view, this has been primarily because linguistic analysis of pages or natural language processing isn't that important...
Again and again, natural language processing gets trotted out as some key solution to improving search, as in this article about a new technology from MeaningMaster. Natural language wasn't the reason why Ask Jeeves was originally successful (that...
Two MIT professors claim in a lawsuit that Ask Jeeves should have asked them before infringing on their natural language search patents. Linking And Crawling Issues http://www.ivanhoffman.com/linking.html
Wildcards, stemming, natural language, fuzzy match, and synonym searching also add to the database's potential usefulness. Boolean connectors along with a proximity operator (within a certain number of terms) are also available.
Feedster has added the ability to search using a variety of commands, such as by title and language. Web navigation company Alexa has launched an intriguing new search engine powered by Google, offering powerful search tools with a number of unique...
This displays a form with many advanced search features, allowing you to include or exclude terms, and filter by language, domain, and so on. Google Alert results are also available as HTML or RSS feeds, or via TrackBack (a popular utility that...
That's standard language that Google has long used in its cached pages, but it clearly overdue for page. The company agreed to small refunds of fees paid and had to provide a limited number of free monthly clicks.
Review of a new blog search engine with multiple language support. Why Google should stop being so 'evil' The Guardian, Oct.http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/comment/0,7496,1066536,00.html FindWhat Surges After Third-Quarter Beat TheStreet.com...
Like how Google's calculator lets you do sums by using units in plain language, such as speed of light * 2? InfoSpace has updated its website, offering a number of easy-to-use business and people lookup functions, with access to public records...
BrainBoost is designed to let you enter search terms in natural language. And don't forget that you can do "natural language" searching on regular search engines, as well. How do search engines know the language a page is written in?
Search engines have also been able to use natural language for ages -- in fact, they generally do not want you to try Boolean searching. Overture to upgrade analytics software News.com, Aug.http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5059162.html
Feedster has added the ability to search using a variety of commands, such as by title and language. Personalized Web Search Company Formed by Members of Stanford's PageRank Project ResourceShelf, July 12, 2003 http://www.resourceshelf.com...
AutoFill works best on pages with forms that use the ECML (Electronic Commerce Modeling Language) standard. The toolbar also now displays a count of the number of popup windows that it has blocked since the toolbar was installed.
Feel free to phrase your query in natural language at Google (or other search engines), and you may find better results. Betting On The Butler Again Forbes, June 12, 2003 http://www.forbes.com/newsletter/2003/06/12/cz_jc_0612soapbox.html
Who is talking about the language of the customer? Frederick Marckini, CEO of iProspect, said that the paradox of Web search and search engine marketing (SEM) is that properly optimized sites contain customer-specific language.
If you're a fan of language, it's a fun and fascinating site to engage in what McFedries calls "lexpionage. The word Google itself is a neologism, a variation on the huge number, a googol. And hit-and-run page, a web page that gets a huge number of...
