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Blog Search news roundup
Peter Caputa has a concise roundup of blog search news from this week. Read more ⇢
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Google's "Secret Lab"? Ho-hum.
Henk van Ess makes a dramatic show of scooping a story about a Google “Secret Lab”, which consists of an army of students worldwide that rate Google search results and new features using an eval UI. Ho-hum. I’m not steeped enough in Googlemania to know whether this is some kind of scandal, e.g. whether Google… Read more ⇢
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Blogebrity
Now that’s funny. The Blogebrity site is an entry in this contest to create an effective viral marketing site. I dunno, maybe this kind of thing is even instructive to some people, but a little satire is good enough for me. I’ll leave it to others to cover the marketing lessons in this. (Via Micro… Read more ⇢
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MindSet, intent-driven search from Yahoo! Research
This is very interesting. Yahoo Research MindSet is a search UI that includes a slider that lets you indicate your “intent” by moving a slider between shopping on one end and research on the other. It then re-ranks the search results accordingly. Works pretty well. Try a search for shoes or search for wind surfing.… Read more ⇢
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Bloglines search coming this summer
Stephen Baker @ Businessweek: The CEO of Bloglines (now a division of AskJeeves) says that his company will release a blog search engine this summer which will surpass the likes of Technorati, Feedster, and PubSub. “The challenge,” he says, “is to create world-class blog search, which we don’t think exists now.” Of course, lots of… Read more ⇢
