Last week Google announced the launch of it’s new feature that now allows users to quickly and easily find relevant and up to date information on music related searches. According to Google Insights, 2 out of the top 10 searches performed on Google’s search engine are music related, and up till now it could often take users a while to find the exact information that they were looking for. However…
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After the one year anniversary of Yahoo’s Search Monkey project, Yahoo have announced that they plan to increase their search efforts and base their search feature around structured data. The head of Yahoo Labs and Yahoo Search Strategy, Prabhakar Raghavan, has stressed Yahoo’s desire to not only see the web as a group of ‘documents’ or ‘pages’, but a group of ‘objects’. This philosophy has been important to Yahoo for…
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Earlier this week Google hosted it’s second Searchology event, in which they presented users, partners and customers with the progress they have made and informed them of all the new features that they plan to introduce. During the first event that was held two years ago they enlightened listeners about their new Universal Search, which saw the integration of images, videos, books etc. on their results pages. In the past…
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You cannot avoid the hype surrounding the future of mobile search – it has been one of the 'hot topics' for a while now but most are still grappling with how to embrace the phenomenon and what implications it has for website owners. An interesting personal experience this week helped remind me why I remain sceptical of just how great the opportunity is… I was on the train going to…
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