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...
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...
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. Search Assist refines queries by providing related topics as searchers type to assist them in finding the right search term that...
Then, Semanti will provide query suggestions for Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Semanti can figure out that when you type in fuel economy, that other terms such as mpg are relevant to your search as well. But if Bruce Johnson from Semanti has his way...
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 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.
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...
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.
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...
Query Refinement, The Human Scale Problem The short story is that it's been amazing to watch Digg effectively go through the same type of spam fighting evolution that the search engines have done. Honestly, there are times when I could do a...
In Ionut Alex's example over there for a search for magic, a new refinement area shows up at the top of the page suggesting another query (and some related results) to try: Type Something Here Google's experimental search engine SearchMash has...
Meanwhile, I have great sympathy for the fact that the major search engines could definitely do a much better job with query refinement. That's query refinement in action -- inline -- directly in front of the action area that most searchers...
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...
The button is an RSS feed icon, that links to RSS results for that query refinement in Google Base. Director of Product Search told me, "users can see what type of listing it is before going into it. Below, a recap of stories posted from June 21st...
More On Query Refinement, The Human Scale Problem Oh My" reaction if hand handcrafting involves payment. Working on a team of approximately 132 other handcrafters in 26 worldwide markets, you will receive a user query, use all the available...
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...
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
They both have screen captures of new query refinement that might be related to the expected lunch of Google health. It is also very interesting to note that in Philipp's post he showed that the link the Google Health result refinement takes you to...
AltaVista's Refine Feature: The next time someone pitches you that we'll be flying through search results and using flashy query refinement tools, ask them why AltaVista Refine didn't take off. Light's Custom Search Folders: Clustering and query...
