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.
Yahoo Testing New Query Refinement Tools Yesterday, we defined 2007 as "The Year that Search Grew Up. It was a year of growth, change, and maturation in an industry known for never sitting still. Blended and universal search, quality scores, social...
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...
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...
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 button is an RSS feed icon, that links to RSS results for that query refinement in Google Base. Philipp Lenssen reports Google is testing an expandable box that opens with options, when you click on the "more" link from the Google.com home page.
Certainly it's nice to see the query refinement given better play than on Query refinement has long felt neglected, as But it probably is the most sophisticated or substantial query refinement feature any major search engine offers.
Today's search podcast covers Google saying that its middle-of-the-page query refinement experiment is officially part of regular search results now; a search marketing magazine is coming; two good interviews with search technologists and more!
Half-a-year of testing middle of the page query refinement, and you still don't know if you want to do it? It's an experiment at query refinement. Middle Of The Page Refinement: This is where Google inserts into the middle of the page results...
Fair enough, but query refinement is important. Wants What We Had -- Better Query Refinement. Adding that extra word should give you a subset of the original query. Maybe I want to switch to mobile search, book search, catalog search or yes yes...
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...
Ask Jeeves Launches Their Own Image Database, New Refinement Features Also Search Data Request Has Searchers Pondering Their Next Query Google Quietly Beta Testing Desktop AdWords Editor Today's search podcast covers Google agreeing to Chinese...
Maybe it's new -- maybe not, but another Google query refinement test is out in the wild, as covered in our SEW Forums thread Refinement Keywords. It makes me wonder if the refinement is going along with some Google Base material flowing into the...
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...
Robert Scoble Wants What We Had -- Better Query Refinement. In short, Robert wants better query refinement. See also the follow-up article, More On Query Refinement, The Human Scale Problem & Creating The Search Dialog.
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...
More Testing Of Middle Of The Page Query Refinement At Google In This Issue Hurricane Katrina Search Resources + SEW Sold + SES Heading To Stockholm, France, Chicago + Search Engine Watch Member Articles + Top Stories + More From The Search Engine...
For more on other tests, see our More Testing Of Middle Of The Page Query Refinement At Google post. A few minutes ago on a different search, I saw the same thing -- Google Group results at the bottom of the page for a different query, but I was...
