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Yahoo Launches “Vertical Lens” Search Through BOSS

By Vegard Sandvold on November 29, 2008 | Leave a response

With Vertical Lens, Yahoo lets you build your own vertical search engine. You get to mix and rerank your own site content with Yahoo search results, giving searchers relevant results both on and off site. Site content is indexed in real time, and content structure may be used by searchers to navigate and refine their searches. Ranking can be based on freshness, popularity or social factors. Yahoo Vertical Lens is a competitor of Google Site Search and Microsoft Live Search API’s.

Yahoo Launches “Vertical Lens” Search Through BOSS

By Vegard Sandvold on November 27, 2008 | Leave a response

With Vertical Lens, Yahoo lets you build your own vertical search engine. You get to mix and rerank your own site content with Yahoo search results, giving searchers relevant results both on and off site. Site content is indexed in real time, and content structure may be used by searchers to navigate and refine their searches. Ranking can be based on freshness, popularity or social factors. Yahoo Vertical Lens is a competitor of Google Site Search and Microsoft Live Search API's.

Internet And Search Heavily Used By Consumers In Research And Decision-Making

By Vegard Sandvold on November 18, 2008 | Leave a response

Research produced by Yahoo examines consumer behaviour in choosing local services and providers in five vertical categories: legal, real estate, home improvement, health care and vocational education. Did you know that 59 percent of homeowners use the Internet to do research on home improvement contractors, searching mainly for type of service needed and location (city, zip code)? As a local business and service provider, you need to have a professional website that is easily found by consumers using search engines. Local search providers must provide completeness, and novel features based on vertical metadata, in order to distinguish themselves from the majors like Google and Yahoo.

Internet And Search Heavily Used By Consumers In Research And Decision-Making

By Vegard Sandvold on November 18, 2008 | Leave a response

Research produced by Yahoo examines consumer behaviour in choosing local services and providers in five vertical categories: legal, real estate, home improvement, health care and vocational education. Did you know that 59 percent of homeowners use the Internet to do research on home improvement contractors, searching mainly for type of service needed and location (city, zip code)? As a local business and service provider, you need to have a professional website that is easily found by consumers using search engines. Local search providers must provide completeness, and novel features based on vertical metadata, in order to distinguish themselves from the majors like Google and Yahoo.

Meaningful representations of reality

Meaningful representations of reality

By Lene Pettersen on November 14, 2008 | 3 Responses

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, says the American social anthropologist Clifford Geertz in his famous book The Interpretation of Cultures from 1973. Classification is ways of placing knowledge into meaningful and representative categories. What is thought of as meaningful... Read More »

Why Do We Forget Things?: Scientific American

By Vegard Sandvold on November 13, 2008 | Leave a response

Why is it harder to describe the details of an object, when it’s so easy to recognize something we’ve seen before? MIT research may provide an answer. 40% of all web queries concern re-finding already known objects. Describing these objects with a query may be difficult, but recognizing them in a search result should be easy. And we can make it even easier by presenting image thumbnails and other salient features alongside the usual titles and teasers.

Why Do We Forget Things?: Scientific American

By Vegard Sandvold on November 13, 2008 | Leave a response

Why is it harder to describe the details of an object, when it's so easy to recognize something we've seen before? MIT research may provide an answer. 40% of all web queries concern re-finding already known objects. Describing these objects with a query may be difficult, but recognizing them in a search result should be easy. And we can make it even easier by presenting image thumbnails and other salient features alongside the usual titles and teasers.

How Google Improves Search Quality Through The User Interface

By Vegard Sandvold on November 8, 2008 | Leave a response

Dan Russell from Google’s search quality team has a post at the Google Blog on the art of field study. In short, he describes how the search interface plays a role in search quality, and what measures Google takes to study and improve the user interface, to ultimately help improve search quality.

How Google Improves Search Quality Through The User Interface

By Vegard Sandvold on November 8, 2008 | Leave a response

Dan Russell from Google’s search quality team has a post at the Google Blog on the art of field study. In short, he describes how the search interface plays a role in search quality, and what measures Google takes to study and improve the user interface, to ultimately help improve search quality.

Concept Composition with Faceted Search

Concept Composition with Faceted Search

By Vegard Sandvold on November 4, 2008 | 5 Responses

Faceted search is what you get by combining simple keyword search with a faceted classification scheme. You won’t find it in Google’s web search (except for one of the Google Labs projects, perhaps), but almost every enterprise search project I work on involves facets in one way or another.
Think of facets as properties or... Read More »

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