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 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...
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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.
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...
The service no longer offers an "infinite scroll" of results, but a new set of "related searches" links offer some compelling query refinement tools for many (but not all) queries. He said that Microsoft is building its own video search, however...
The button is an RSS feed icon, that links to RSS results for that query refinement in Google Base. What this tool does is show you which pages the AdSense crawler is having problems getting to. Below, a recap of stories posted from June 21st...
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...
But it probably is the most sophisticated or substantial query refinement feature any major search engine offers. Wants What We Had -- Better Query Refinement. Certainly it's nice to see the query refinement given better play than on
This is an example of the middle-of-the-page query refinement that Google's been testing over the past several months, as we wrote about back in August. If Google's noticing that there are a lot of queries on a particular subtopic (ashley cole...
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. Try it with this query for afro celt sound system.
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...
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.
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.
More Testing Of Middle Of The Page Query Refinement At Google Research from Microsoft: Personalized Search, Determining a Query's Dominant Location, and Much More - The other day I posted about a paper presented at the SIGIR conference a few week's...
