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Bing makes inroads in the search market.

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A number of search start-ups have appeared recently that differentiate their offerings from older search engines' by playing up their specialized focus on the real-time Web. For example, OneRiot, based in Boulder, Colo., covers Twitter among other social media, but it has an intriguing means of reducing Twitter spam: it does not index the text in tweets -- it plucks only the links, reasoning that the videos, news stories and blog posts that are being shared are what others will be most interested in.

OneRiot follows the link, checks for spam by comparing the content of the page with the content of the tweet, and then uses its own algorithms to figure out where the link should go in its always-changing index of "hot" items.

Strictly speaking, this is not real-time processing. But checking links before adding them to the index seems to be time well spent.

Tobias Peggs, general manager at OneRiot, said his company could process, check and index a link within 37 seconds. When asked why he bothered to measure the seconds if it took 20 or more minutes just to receive searchable tweets from Twitter, he explained that the delays at Twitter's search site did not affect his company's search service, which receives the data stream at the same time Twitter's own search engine does. Because one venture capital firm, Spark Capital, has invested in both OneRiot and Twitter, OneRiot has "access to Twitter data that other third parties don't," Mr. Peggs said.

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Kosmix automatically builds web pages for a given search target.
A bigger threat to About.com than to Google. By default, does give a good what's hot zeitgeist of the Internet.

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Wolfram Alpha searching will be very logical.

Update 2009 May 11:

In its current state, there are many queries that WolframAlpha cannot answer, either because it does not understand the question or because it does not have the requisite data. For instance, it is stumped by queries like "obesity rate," "housing prices New York" or "unemployment San Francisco" (but it will answer "unemployment San Francisco County").

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Facebook's targeted advertising throws up three very similar adjacent display placements onto one page. Is this evidence of a price searching algorithm, to ween wages too low to be tempting, or too high to be believed (not to mention too high to be actually available) ?

$92/hr ?

$75/hr ?

$88/hr ?

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Were the Channels and Subscribe features insufficient ?

Google struck back yesterday, launching two new important YouTube features. The first is YouTube's new high-definition option, which switches to wide screen and features much higher resolution than the usual fare. Since most videos are not HD-formatted, YouTube has set up an "HD Videos Area," where users can search for the highest-quality films the site has to offer. Low-resolution video has been one of the issues keeping advertisers from throwing money at the site, and this may help turn things around.

YouTube's second initiative tackles the site's maddening lack of navigability. Even though companies like CBS and MGM have signed deals to post feature-length shows on YouTube, no one can find them, thanks to the peculiar architecture of the Web site. Now, YouTube has started collecting movies, music, and news on three separate landing pages. The news page will offer video broadcasts of breaking news, and the music and movies pages will showcase the most popular songs and feature-length films, broken down by category. Users will still find themselves lost in YouTube's architecture most of the time, but at least it's a start.

-- Feeling Lucky

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Google.com and www.google.com do not share certificates.

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Cuil.

Former Google employees are unveiling a search engine that they promise will be more comprehensive than Google's and hope will give its users more relevant results.

Technology: Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine
By MIGUEL HELFT
Published: July 28, 2008
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See also Ask.com, Vivisimo, Snap, Mahalo and Powerset.

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BuzzFeed shows what is infatuatingly hot.

Via BuzzFeed

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Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) takes on
Google Adsense.

Also Y! now offers fully featured widgets via RSS fees.

What to do with RSS feeds: aggregate into Feed Groups !
See NetVibes.

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New Vivisimo, better crawling and grouping.

Prviously: Vivisimo clusty headline news

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Comedy, tradedy, romance. The elegant design
of Shakespeare's life work.

Not yet: Browse by or search for work's name Hamlet, character
name Ophelia or search for content text nunnery.

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Curbed and Property Shark team for NY Property Map theme of the week at Shark Bites.

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Snap Job Search.
Best use of incremental search partitioning and refinement
of multi-faceted search and browsing.

Snap journal.

Battelle comments.

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Chicago personal injury lawyer or New York lasik laser eye surgery are
valuable search words.

So hire a Chicago personal injury lawyer if your New York lasik fails.

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For GPS, GIS map junkies: google earth for Mac OS X.

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Search for search for stylized facts at the plazoo.

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Fetch headlines from Google News on a schedule, then rank
headlines by factors:

* appearance day and time,
* prominence on the google news page,
* number of appearances,
* others;

weighted to estimate referer traffic these links bring to their
source.

Listed are the top scoring stories in recent time periods, followed
by a ranking of sources. More detailed reports are linked-to at the
bottom of each table.

[*]

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Search for stylized facts or for Coruscation at Mozbot, France's prettier Google.

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Google Tutor and Google Guide's advanced operators reference are full
of search optimization advice for Google's end users.

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Research citations

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Google Blog-o-scoped reviews Google's new search history retention
and recall.

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Craig's List and Google Maps merge, and the result is good.

See for rent and for sale listings plotted on a map,
pins colourized to show availability of pictures,
drill down the matches to a feature set or price band.

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Clusty headlines are groupable into clusters
by reader-specified criterion.

Clusty shows Stylized Facts as in these clusters:

Market (30)
⇨Growth (17)
⇨Statistical, Empirical (10)
⇨Interest Rates (9)
⇨Bank, Research (7)
⇨Volatility, Modeling (7)
⇨Behavior, Generate (6)
⇨Generate The Stylized Facts (5)
⇨Economic Blog (3)

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scholar.google.com searches refereed publications.
Sample search mortgage prepayment modlleing.

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