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Dorthy.com: A (Semantic) Search Engine for Dreams
Written by Sarah Perez / August 21, 2009 8:08 AM / 2 Comments
Dorthy.com, a site we've been hearing about since late last year, has just raised $4 million from angel investors for their "new agey" concept of a search engine for dreams. Continue reading »


What Does Google's High Customer Satisfaction Rating Mean for Bing?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 18, 2009 8:51 AM / 16 Comments
According to the results of a new survey by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, Google's users are extremely happy with their search engine. Google scored 86 points out of a Continue reading »


Lavva: A New Attempt at "Social Search"
Written by Sarah Perez / August 12, 2009 7:35 AM / 10 Comments
After seeing how hard it is to combat the goliath that is Google when it comes to search, you almost have to wonder about anyone launching an alternative search engine Continue reading »


The Top 100 Search Terms Queried by Kids
Written by Sarah Perez / August 12, 2009 6:04 AM / 19 Comments
Security firm Symantec has identified the top 100 searches conducted by children online. Popular items in the list include some expected entries like YouTube, Facebook, and MySpace as well as Continue reading »


Bing's Bias: Tinfoil Hats Don't Seem Necessary Yet
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 6, 2009 10:06 AM / 5 Comments
PCWorld and CIO.com ran a story by Shane O'Neill today alleging that Microsoft's search engine Bing returns results for certain queries that are contrary to the searcher's intent and biased Continue reading »


Social Relevancy Rank: What's Missing?
Written by Guest Author / July 26, 2009 9:00 AM / 19 Comments
The future of search almost certainly involves social networks, social graphs, or social filtering in some capacity. Companies will live or die by whether they get the "social" part right: Continue reading »


Mobile Search Gets a "Push": Aloqa's Location-Aware App Debuts
Written by Sarah Perez / July 17, 2009 6:23 AM / 9 Comments
Mobile startup Aloqa launched earlier this week at the MobileBeat conference, revealing their innovative interface for location-aware search. Their new application proactively seeks out nearby businesses, services, events, and even Continue reading »


The Future of Search: Social Relevancy Rank
Written by Alex Iskold / July 16, 2009 9:05 PM / 29 Comments
FriendFeed has recently launched a search feature, and so Facebook search must be coming soon. Real-time Web search (of streams of activities) is a hot topic right now. tweetmeme_url = Continue reading »


BingTweets: Microsoft Launches a Twitter Search Engine
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 15, 2009 8:15 AM / 9 Comments
Microsoft, in cooperation with Federated Media and Twitter, launched its own full-blown Twitter search engine today. BingTweets mashes up real-time Twitter search with results from Bing, Microsoft's new and increasingly Continue reading »


Bing According to Microsoft: Unique Visits Up 8% in June
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 13, 2009 11:35 AM / 9 Comments
We already knew that Bing, Microsoft's new search engine was doing quite well, but today, Microsoft released its own data about the state of the service. Bing launched just a Continue reading »


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