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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
This morning Yahoo! began offering a new home page design after previewing it for several days. The new page features a customizable interface and a "Personal Assistant" which allows users to monitor their inbox and chat contacts, listen to their personal radio station, and check local weather, listings, and movie showtimes without leaving the page. The DHTML and Ajax-powered redesign also enables tabbed browsing of news and features, a customizable Yahoo! Services sidebar, and a panel featuring the new Yahoo! Pulse which highlights top searches and pop culture trends.
As Yahoo! continues to develop it's own unique take on the value of search in an internet portal, they clearly are not just following Google down the "keep it simple stupid" path. With this redesign, Yahoo! is clearly asserting it's position as THE Internet portal - the place to start on the Internet.
Yahoo home page gives prominence to search box
Tue May 16, 12:18 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters)
Yahoo!'s New Home Page and the Future of Information
May 15, 2006
YSearchblog
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Yahoo!'s LiveSearch Kicks Google Suggest's Butt Like A Red-Headed Step-Child Who Had No Business Getting Up This Morning
OMG. Yahoo's LiveSearch Beta is amazing! See for yourself.
Google Suggest (Beta) VS
Yahoo's LiveSearch (Beta)
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Yahoo! and MSN are showing a growing interest in acquiring social search tools in attempts to keep content fresh and differentiate themselves from the almighty Google. The idea behind social search is that social groups should impact relevance in search results. Search users are encouraged to create lists of favorite sites and to rate sites and search results for relevancy. Their feedback is then incorporated into the search results of others.
Microsoft Gets Social
Redmond has big plans for tools and partnerships that will let users consult a circle of friends when conducting Web searches
By Olga Kharif
APRIL 14, 2006
Business Week
Yahoo's Social Circle
In a bid to challenge search giant Google, the Web's most-used portal is betting on the wisdom of crowds
By Ben Elgin
JANUARY 23, 2006
Business Week
Analysis: Yahoo! to pass search reins over to the user
By Matt Whipp
February 9, 2006
PC Pro
YAHOO! SEARCH ADDS PERSONAL SEARCH AND COLLABORATION CAPABILITIES TO WEB SEARCH
Launch of "My Web" Beta Provides Users With Personal Search Engine, Search History and Integrated Sharing Tools
April 27, 2005
Yahoo Media Relations
Monday, April 17, 2006
Yahoo!7 says it will begin offering episodes of popular Australian shows for free download within the next year. A few years from now, when we live in a unified media world, we may look back at this little story and say, "remember when Yahoo! thought it was a big deal that they offered soap operas for download."
Soaps to be just a click away
By John Lehmann
The Australian
April 17, 2006
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Google was granted a patent for a "voice interface for a search engine" on Tuesday.
A system provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query using the recognition hypotheses. The system then provides the weighted boolean query to a search system and provides the results of the search system to a user.
United States Patent #7,027,987
Franz, et al.
April 11, 2006
Voice interface for a search engine
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Ben Charny summed the news up nicely for PC Magazine.
Google Talks the Talk for Search
By Ben Charny
PCMag
April 13, 2006
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Yahoo! launched
Yahoo! FareChase today. FareChase enables users to search for airline tickets. Yahoo! will also be integrating the FareChase results into the standard search results.
Press Release:
Yahoo! FareChase Now Combines the Power of Search, Community and Interactive Maps to Help Travelers Plan Their Ideal Trip
Yahoo! FareChase Integrates a Suite of Yahoo! Products to Provide Travelers with Both Comprehensive Pricing Information and Insight Into the Experiences of Fellow Travelers
SUNNYVALE, California
Apr 12, 2006
BUSINESS WIRE
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Without fanfare (i.e., without releasing any press releases) Google has purchased the rights to and has hired the original developer of a new search technology called Orion. The new technology is significant in that it could enable Google to pull information from web sites right into the Google results page, thereby removing the need of the visitor to ever visit your website. Of course, we have no idea what Google plans to do with the technology.
It is worth mentioning that there are other search engines that provide what appear to be similar services already up and running, notably
QTs@arch, The Micro Content Engine.
Google steps up its search technology
By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco
Published: April 10 2006
The FInancial Times
More about Orion:
New search engine 'revolutionary'
MEDIA, NEWS & EVENTS
The University of New South Wales
08 September 2005
Google snaps up student's search engine
MEDIA, NEWS & EVENTS
The University of New South Wales
13 April 2006
Microsoft has released the beta version
Windows Live Academic Search. Unlike its web-crawling rival Google Scholar, its index will be built upon structured feeds from academic publishers.
Microsoft�s Crawl from The Bottom in Search
By Aaron Ricadela
Information Week
Apr 11, 2006
Microsoft Announces Windows Live Academic Search
New research tool delivers enhanced search capabilities to the academic community.
REDMOND, Wash. � April 11, 2006
Saturday, April 1, 2006
April Fools' Day in the search engine world:
Google to Organize World's Courtship Information with Google Romance
Service to offer psychographic matchmaking plus free "contextual dating" option
Yahoo Announces Plans to Buy up Web 2.0
All Your Web 2.0 Are Belong To Us
Ask.com Introduces RhymeRank
Oakland, CA, April 1, 2006 - Ask.com announced today the introduction of RhymeRank, an innovative search technology capable of producing related search results that rhyme with a searcher's original query. The new product is located on the right-hand side of the Ask search results page, under the heading, "Rhyme Your Search."
Thursday, March 9, 2006
Microsoft's new
Windows Live™ (www.Live.com) Search beta is now available for public preview. At it's core, Live.com is a personal search application. Among its features, the posed Google competitor offers "Smart Scroll" function allowing users to view up to 100 results on one page, shareable search macros, and a slider bar that adjusts the amount of previewed content shown.
Official Press Release:
Microsoft Unveils Windows Live Search Beta
Innovative new search service delivers compelling new design, new search categories and custom search services; new betas of Windows Live Toolbar and Live.com also launched.
SAN DIEGO � March 7, 2006
Windows Live™ has actually been available to those "in the know" for quite some time. Davis D. Janowski wrote an early review for PC Magazine in February.
Windows Live Local (beta)
REVIEW DATE: 02.02.06
PCMag.com
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
AskJeeves.com just became Ask.com, retiring its butler mascot and question-format search in favor of an uncluttered main page and improved search technology. In sum, Ask.com tried to make news in the search engine world by doing some rebranding, and it worked.
Official Press Release:
The New Ask.com Unveiled: New Site, New Brand, New Tools
Innovative Search Tools, Advanced Search Technology and Sleek Design Help Users Search Faster
OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 27, 2006
Ask.com
With search site relaunch, Jeeves loses top billing
By Elinor Mills
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 26, 2006, 9:00 PM PST
