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. It's available as a limited preview in Google Labs.
Yahoo has also made some enhancements to Search Assist, the well-received query-refinement technology launched in 2007. These include links to searches on related concepts, the ability to limit results to those from Yahoo pages or other third-party...
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. If you're like most searchers, you find yourself...
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 type of results that will be returned for a given query are determined by a new algorithm called Morph, which Leeds describes as "an explosion of the Smart Answers algorithm.
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. The Search Marketer's
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 Dewey search engine is now outed as Microsoft's...
But it's a start and you're going to see more of this, even at places like Google which has used midpage query refinement for nearly two years now. Meanwhile, I have great sympathy for the fact that the major search engines could definitely do a...
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. From The SEW Blog.
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...
Certainly it's nice to see the query refinement given better play than on But it probably is the most sophisticated or substantial query refinement feature any major search engine offers. Query refinement has long felt neglected, as
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...
Light's Custom Search Folders: Clustering and query refinement is something Google's still experimenting with today, but it's been in place and used by others for years. AltaVista's Refine Feature: The next time someone pitches you that we'll be...
