MSN Live Image Search Beats Google
I found something that MSN Live beats Google at. It's Image Search. If you'll watch this video by Stefan Weitz of the MSN Live Search team, you'll see the cool features offered by MSN Live on its Image Search feature. Stefan isn't Matt Cutts and there are some weaknesses in the video presentation, but it does do a decent job of highlighting some of the cool features of MSN Live's Image Search, such as: Search by image size Aspect Ratio Image Style (photograph or illustration) Color or black and white Face shots, head and shoulder, or other image effects I think this is getting closer to the way that searching for images should be done. I would like to see one other feature added - CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Will Semantic Language Replace Keyword-Based Content
The race is on for semantic language search. Already, some search engines are employing this technology. Google is one of them. But will semantic language ever replace keyword-based content? First, let's define semantic language indexing. This is a form of indexing that allows search engines to determine what a web page is about just by looking at other elements on the page. Usually, related words and phrases will give clues. For instance, if you are writing about screwdrivers then the search robots will be able to tell whether you are referring to handyman tools or mixed drinks based on the rest of your content. Do you mention orange juice? How about ice cubes? Then it's mixed drinks. But if your web page doesn't contain either of CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Would You Want Google Optimizing Your Pages For You?
Yahoo! has worked hard to try and set itself apart from its competitors. Sometimes it succeeds as in a few days ago when they announced Search Pad. But there have been times when the search engine known as Yahoo! failed miserably. It's happened so often that some of us have come to see Yahoo! and failure as synonymous. It's harsh, I know. And it might be difficult to imagine that Yahoo! is still the second place search engine after all its failed attempts at being innovative. But one thing we can say about it is this, they're not afraid to take risks. Bill Slawski of SEO By The Sea wrote a blog post recently about Yahoo! patent for automatic SEO. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Yahoo!s Search Pad Is Innovative For Search
Yahoo! is finally getting innovative in search. If you do a lot of research, they've got a beta of a new product called Search Pad. Search pad allows you to save notes on your searches. You can copy/paste or type in your notes and order them any way you want. It's the perfect feature if you do ongoing research on a particular topic or a number of topics. Here's a video you can watch to learn more about it:
Yahoo! Search Pad Preview @ Yahoo! Video
But what if you don't like using Yahoo! as a search engine? What if you prefer Google? Well, you can still use it. Perform your searches in Google and when you find a site that you CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Deep Web Search: Are Your Forms Crawlable?
A recent disagreement between Om Malik and Matt Cutts over Google's innovativeness led to a discussion on deep web crawl. In the end, Om ate some crow (but he didn't eat the whole crow). I'd say that deep web crawl is a big idea. In the past, Google's spiders could not crawl forms. But this .PDF file indicates that lately Google has been doing just that on a limited basis. I think there are broader implications, however. It won't be long before Google announces that crawling forms is not only possible but common practice. When that happens I think the nature of forms will change. It is likely that they will become more dynamic. The news that Google is CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Oh, Those 2008 LiveSearch Search Trends
Search trends can be enlightening, funny, or downright scary. While fanning through my RSS reader this morning I came across a blog post at Live Search that gives some insight into search trends for 2007 and 2008. It seems that Americans really love turkey (and have serious love-hate relationships with their spouses). This paragraph from the blog post had me laughing: Last year people in the U.S. were learning to cook turkeys and to brine them. To argue with their spouses (maybe about whether to cook or brine the turkey) and to improve their marriages (probably after getting too worked up about the turkey). They wanted to learn how to make money and how to save it, how to lose weight both in general CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Do The Search Engines Favor The Popular And “Rich”?
It's no secret that Google built the popular web. Link popularity is the name of the game and has been for some time. The question is, does Google's link popularity algorithms reward those with a lot of links already with even more links while those who are struggling to survive get fewer? A very interesting article written in 2004 about that very subject says "Yes." But I think there is some reason to suspect that the article inherently correct in its assumptions. Nevertheless, it appears to be true that the search engines do favor big (and older) websites above smaller and newer ones. So is that the same and saying that they favor the link rich to the link poor? Honestly, I think they CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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