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...
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...
This kind of recommendation and discovery tool is part of the Ask 3D interface, which offers pre-search query refinement suggestions and post-search related categories. The biggest changes are the introduction of Search Assist, a pre-search query...
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 In addition, when a user types a query into the search box, Ask presents the user with type-ahead search suggestions. The new version of Ask.com has been dubbed "Ask3D" for its 3-paneled search results which represent the...
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. We begin with Allen Stern at Center Networks, who writes Ask.com...
At the top of a result page, "topic links" were used as query refinement suggestions to help people to narrow a query. For example, you can create refinements that specify words to automatically add to any query, helping users narrow the focus of...
Of course, you can order the Search Tools toolbox in anyway you'd like—so it can be easily put at the top of the default view.We kept it next to the box on the results pages because we see more use there, as a refinement tool.Top Searches are...
Microsoft unveils a patent application that could be the inspiration for Windows Live QnA, a process for removing unlinked documents from a search engine's index, an approach for presenting relevant snippets with search results, a means of...
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...
Query refinement suggestions, such as alternative search terms with a list of sites received in response to that query, This information might be collected in query logs or host log files of the search engine.
But it probably is the most sophisticated or substantial query refinement feature any major search engine offers. Query refinement has long felt neglected, as Wants What We Had -- Better Query Refinement.
Fair enough, but query refinement is important. Wants What We Had -- Better Query Refinement. Maybe I want to switch to mobile search, book search, catalog search or yes yes yes blog search with an easy click from the existing query I've done.
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...
Even better, you're offered a number of query refinement tools to help you broaden or narrow your search. One of the coolest features is called a "health map," a visual display of all of the concepts related to your query.
AOL Search has also added some refinement tools. Clipping a result also moves the result to the top of a result list for the query, where it will appear any time you run the saved search. Saved searches persist for 30 days, and you can sort them...
Yesterday, I wrote of how search engines could do a better job of query refinement and indeed did so in the past, especially because there was more human involvement in the search process. More comments from Jim on that are below, along with a...
See also the follow-up article, More On Query Refinement, The Human Scale Problem & Creating The Search Dialog. In short, Robert wants better query refinement. Robert Scoble Wants What We Had -- Better Query Refinement.
I've seen various prototypes of query refinement tools from smaller players over the years, and query refinement at the major players isn't dead, of course. In short, Robert wants better query refinement.
