Category: Online search tools and services

The status and challenges of multi media search engine technology

At the end of two and a half years, the EU project CHORUS concluded its work at a conference in Brussels recently. The conference focused on status and challenges of multi media search engine technology, but also addressed the challenges, gaps, commonalities, difficulties, targeted/expected impacts and success criteria related to search initiatives.

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Ask.com and Ask Jeeves launch database of 300 million answers and questions

Ask and Ask Jeeves goes back to basics and launches an enlarged question and answer database that allows for natural language search queries.

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Posted on Sunday 21 June 2009
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Protesting Iranians use search engine Yauba to ensure privacy

t is widely known that dissidents in China have had their blogs deleted and in at least one case a major search engine (Yahoo) have contributed to the arrest of a Chinese journalist. This, along with the Iranian regime’s poor track record when it comes to human rights is why many Iranian protesters use the only search engine that guarantees search privacy.

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Posted on Wednesday 17 June 2009
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Better search for life science, health science and chemistry at Science Direct

Elsevier and NextBio recently signed a partnership to enrich ScienceDirect content. The hope is that this will accelerate life science, health science and chemistry research.

NextBio provides a platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge within public and proprietary data. Information from NextBio will now be used to enrich the content of ScienceDirect.

Through this agreement NextBio’s ontology-based semantic tools and a compilation of high quality sources of public data will be integrated on ScienceDirect.

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Posted on Tuesday 16 June 2009
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Using Google and Yahoo! for finding free images

Both Yahoo and Google adds filters for finding public domain photographs in image search.

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Posted on Sunday 14 June 2009
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Google Squared can save you time on complex searches

With Google Squared you can search Google and have the results presented in a highly structured way. This experimental search tool is especially useful when the information you need requires complex, time consuming searches.

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Posted on Friday 5 June 2009
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5 problems Wolfram Alpha can solve for you

A week after the launch, Wolfram Alpha has announced it will soon pass 100 million queries. One reason for this is the fact that this new search engines doesn’t deliver search results like Google, Yahoo and the rest — it solvs problems.

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Posted on Wednesday 27 May 2009
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Wolfram Alpha is the new Wolfram Alpha, not the new Google

The big search engine news story this week was the launch of the new Wolfram Alpha search site, by some hyped to be the new Google. Pandia is not convinced that Wolfram Alpha will make a major impact.
It isn’t. Wolfram Alpha is not an alternative to Google or any of the other major search engines; [...]

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Posted on Sunday 24 May 2009
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