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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Google introduces comments to Google News
Google will start allowing users to comment on the stories displayed on Google News, with these comments to be displayed next to the articles in question. The comments system will differ from the average blog, as comments will be restricted to people that are connected to the story, so only the writer of the article or any people or organisation mentioned will be able to give their opinions. Google has…
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Google deletes its own blog after mistaking it for spam
Last week, Google managed to delete one of its own blogs, after the search engine mistakenly though that it was a spam blog. The site in question was Google’s Custom Search Blog, which offers advice for users of the company’s Custom Search Engine software, which can be used to build customized website that search specific sites or pages. Bloggers spotted that something odd was going on when all the previous…
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Real time indexing from Google
Matt Cutts, on his Gadgets, Google and SEO blog, has been writing about how quickly the search engine is now updating its results. Back in 2000, Cutts says, Google updated its index every few months, changing this to monthly halfway through that year. After an update in 2003, the search engine started to update its results incrementally, meaning that part of it index was updated on a daily basis. Now,…
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Spock – a people search engine
Spock, a search engine which can be used to search the internet for details on individuals, has launched in a public beta. This new search engine aims to provide a more accurate method of searching for people than using Google or Yahoo, returning more specific information by filtering out the irrelevant results. Around 30% of internet searches are related to people and Spock aims to tap into this market. Spock, and…
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Wikipedia founder close to launching open source search engine
Wikia, the commercial site headed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has acquired Grub, a distributed crawling service, which will be used for the forthcoming open source, human assisted search engine, which is expected to launch by the end of the year. Grub technology will be used to build an index for the Search Wikia project – Grub’s technology uses idle time on volunteers’ PCs to crawl the web. Grub was…
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