Fri 4 Dec 2009
Posted by Admin under Google: General, Latest Info, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines
Answers.com has a strong URL (if not a brand) and lots of traffic, more than 25 million monthly unique users. It was the source of definitions in the “definitions” link in the upper right of Google SERPs. The key word in that last sentence is “was.”
As of yesterday, without fanfare, Google replaced Answers.com with its [...]
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Tue 20 Oct 2009
Posted by Admin under Google: Mobile, Latest Info, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Search Engines: Word Of Mouth & Buzz Search Engines, Search Marketing: Mobile
A class of mobile “help” or “answer engines” has arisen as an alternative to traditional search engines. They hold out the promise more efficient, relevant or direct responses to queries than search engines can provide on the small screen. In several cases they involve the use of live human agents or a community of users [...]
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Wed 2 Sep 2009
Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Search Engines: Health & Medical Search Engines
Netbase is an enterprise-facing software and search company that appears to have one of the most advanced search platforms in the market. Earlier this week during a briefing Netbase marketing and product VP Jens Tellefsen asserted that no other search provider in the consumer or enterprise segment was as advanced — an audacious claim.
Tellefsen went [...]
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Mon 31 Aug 2009
Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Search Engines: Wolfram Alpha
Not long ago “computational engine” Wolfram Alpha struck a deal with Microsoft to license some of its data to Bing. Now, according to the Guardian UK, Wolfram is going wide with that strategy and will soon enable an API that third parties can use to create mashups or enhance their sites.
This may be a step [...]
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Tue 7 Jul 2009
Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Search Engines: Help Engines, Top News
Danny has described Aardvark as a “help engine” and I’ve called it an “answer community.” Whatever term you want to use to characterize the service it’s very interesting and has enormous potential as a kind of search engine alternative or complement for recommendations, opinions or complex questions. There are other services that are similar though [...]
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Wed 1 Jul 2009
Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines
Barely two weeks after its launch, Hunch is already taking stock of its progress. “How well do we think Hunch is working?,” asks co-founder Chris Dixon. “Pretty well, although we still have a ways to go.”
Writing on the Hunch blog, Dixon explains that the decision engine is using what it calls “success rate” as its [...]
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Wed 17 Jun 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: Web Search, Latest Info, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines
Continuing its move from being a traditional search engine to an “answer engine,” Ask today has announced that its “AnswerFarm” database has tripled in size, from 100 million Q&A pairs to 300 million.
Ask says they’ve also improved the quality of the Q&A database content:
“Our semantic search technology advancements in clustering, rephrasing, and answer relevance enable [...]
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Mon 15 Jun 2009
Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Top News
Caterina Fake’s enthusiasm for her latest project is contagious. Hunch is now open to the public, but it’s still three days pre-launch when we talk and, at this point, about the only uncertainty is how best to describe it in all the media interviews she’s doing. Phrases like “Q&A community” and “knowledge tool” are [...]
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Thu 14 May 2009
Posted by Admin under Features: Analysis, Latest Info, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Search Engines: Wolfram Alpha, Top News
One of the more interesting things to me that came out of the Google Searchology event this week was “Google Squared.” It’s a new search tool launching later this month that tries to build spreadsheet-like answers to anything you search for. I had a few screenshots from the event that take a [...]
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Tue 12 May 2009
Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Microsoft: Live Search, Microsoft: Other, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines
LiveSide reports Microsoft has decided to close down the Question and Answer portal, MSN QnA as of May 21st. Microsoft said:
At this time, we are closing the QnA site, but the experience of running QnA and gathering all of the great feedback you’ve shared with us will certainly influence future product direction.
QnA initially [...]
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Fri 1 May 2009
Posted by Admin under Features: Analysis, Latest Info, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Search Engines: Wolfram Alpha, Top News
Much attention has been focused on the forthcoming Wolfram Alpha search service. Will it be as important as Google has become? Perhaps! A new search paradigm? Yes! Or at least a new way of gathering information. A Google-killer? Nope! But when the service launches, it should become an essential in anyone’s search [...]
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Tue 28 Apr 2009
Posted by Admin under Google: OneBox, Plus Box & Direct Answers, Latest Info, Search Engines: Academic Search Engines, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Top News
During the Wolfram Alpha demonstration today, the Google Blog announced the launch of their own structured data search feature that allows you to find and compare public data.
Searches such as [unemployment rate new york] will now bring up a quick answer that looks like this:
Clicking on the result will take you to a more detailed [...]
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Tue 31 Mar 2009
Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Search Engines: Wikipedia, Search Engines: Wikiseek
News.com reports that Wikia Search is giving up and closing up shop. Search Wikia launched an alpha release in January 2008, where Chris Sherman gave it a poor review.
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikia, told News.com “It was going to take at least an another year to two before it’s usable by [...]
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Tue 31 Mar 2009
Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Academic Search Engines, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Search Engines: Wikipedia
paidContent.org reports that Microsoft has decided to discontinue their encyclopedia software, Encarta. Both the MSN Encarta reference Web sites as well as its Encarta software will be shut down. Microsoft said:
On October 31, 2009, MSN® Encarta® Web sites worldwide will be discontinued, with the exception of Encarta Japan, which will be discontinued on [...]
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Tue 24 Mar 2009
Posted by Admin under Google: Custom Search Engine, Latest Info, Search Engines: Academic Search Engines, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Yahoo: Search Builder, Yahoo: Search Monkey
Today, I met with Dr. Ron Milo who works in the field of plant sciences at Weizmann Institute in Israel, who showed me a specialty search engine project he built from the ground up named BioNumbers. In short, BioNumbers is a collection of common biological numbers that is useful to one’s research. For [...]
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Tue 10 Mar 2009
Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines
Better Search Doesn’t Mean Beating Google from Saul Hansell at the New York Times does an excellent job breaking down the latest Google threat, or lack there of. A secret search engine named Wolfram Alpha is being designed now by Stephen Wolfram, a British mathematician.
Wolfram Alpha differs from Google in that it hopes to [...]
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Mon 15 Dec 2008
Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Search Engines: Mahalo, Top News, Yahoo: Answers
Mahalo Answers is the newest entry into the crowded Q&A reference site space, but it offers a twist that its biggest competitors don’t: the chance to earn money by contributing to the service. Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis says the new service is the third and final piece of his original…
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