As noted with the Home Depot example, key engagement options exist such as an "add to cart" action button, search for intent refinement or modification, other options to dig into additional information and links to similar products that other...
This phase is typically marked by user query refinement. Information Refinement Phase Understanding the user's likely purchase state depending on the nature of the query arms advertisers with a tremendous competitive and strategic advantage.
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...
One is a search refinement that calls out brand names related to your query in a single line above the rest of the results. Just last week, Google announced a number of new search enhancements. If you want examples, check out search results for...
It's a nifty tool, good for refinement of image searches without having to type in a new query. Google is unveiling a new type of image search they're calling "Image Swirl. You can access the Image Swirl search here.
Yahoo has also made some enhancements to Search Assist, the well-received query-refinement technology launched in 2007. Yahoo is rolling out some changes to its search results pages, with a new three-column design that highlights Yahoo apps...
Then, Semanti will provide query suggestions for Google, Yahoo, and Bing. But if Bruce Johnson from Semanti has his way, you'll start getting the results you want from your first search. Johnson is the CEO of Semanti, a San Francisco-based semantic...
In other words, if you searched for a term on the main Google site and then clicked "News," that's a search refinement. Type in a query and you'll see sponsored links running along the right side just like you do in "regular" Google.
The query refinement tools it has offered for years have only recently been mimicked by the big three search engines. We know that a sizable group of our core user base is women, and we know they come to us for a certain kind of search: to get...
Yahoo Testing New Query Refinement Tools Yesterday, we defined 2007 as "The Year that Search Grew Up. Search in the Mix/Integration Blended and universal search, quality scores, social media, and personalized search results all contributed to the...
Yahoo added query refinement tools like Search Assist for users, which are already found in Google Suggest and Ask3D. Between the consolidation of players in the search and online advertising space, the increasing ability of search marketers to get...
Yahoo Search Gets Blended, HelpfulYahoo unveiled significant changes to its search engine, inlcuding the introduction of pre-search query refinement tool Search Assist, and blended search results We've collected all the search marketing news from...
Yahoo Search Gets Blended, HelpfulYahoo unveiled significant changes to its search engine, inlcuding the introduction of pre-search query refinement tool Search Assist, and blended search results Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news?
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...
Yahoo has begun testing Search Assist, a new search refinement that could have an impact on search marketers for its ability to prevent typos and guide searchers toward a specific query. Google Suggest was the first to offer this type-ahead, pre...
Query Refinement by Edison The new version of Ask.com has been dubbed "Ask3D" for its 3-paneled search results which represent the three stages of each search: type a query, review results, and click through to content.
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. Over at Read/Write Web, Josh Catone weighs in with The Future of Ask...
Most large e-commerce sites will have three main page types: a category page, a refinement or attribute page and a product page. Now that you have your list of top keywords in an area that you can query against, you need to populate this table with...
Deep refinement became a hallmark of the product, and we built the technology and infrastructure required to support it at scale. When we founded Open List, (formerly Local-i), we held a first principle that stated that the final arbiter of...
