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Digital Agenda: more than half EU Internet surfers use foreign language when online While 90% of Internet surfers in the EU prefer to access websites in their own language, 55% at least occasionally use a language other than their own when online according to a pan-EU Eurobarometer survey released today. However, 44% of European Internet […]
Roundup: 19 New or Enhanced Features from Google and YouTube
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Google I/O, a conference where many Google products and services have been introduced (Android, Google Wave, Google TV are three of them), begins today and we’re already hearing about some of the services that will be announced. So we thought it would it might be useful to compile a ist of some of the most […]
Part predictive search tool, part web discovery resource. From a New Scientist Article In the future the news will find you – at least according to Futureful, a Finnish startup building a predictive discovery iPad app that will deliver personalised information. The company’s mission is to “give you what you want before you knew you […]
Is Google Stuck in ‘Perpetual Beta’? Last month, Motorola’s Xoom tablet launched on the Verizon Wireless network. Soon after, complaints began to surface that the tablet’s operating system — designed by Google — was prone to crashes when running third party applications. Experts say that while Google’s typical strategy of launching new products and then […]
From the Bing Search Blog: New features in this update include better and faster image search, real-time transit and directions, app search for the iPhone, and more. Utilizing HTML5, the new features are offered on Smartphone browsers for the iPhone and Android. If you have a Windows Phone 7 device, don’t worry, Windows Phone 7 […]
In Search of the Perfect Search: Can Google Beat Attempts to Game the System? Under fire after a series of well-publicized schemes revealed flaws in the effectiveness of its search results, Google is taking action. The search giant recently overhauled its ranking procedures in what company executives called an effort to favor “high quality” sites […]
Everyday Google makes a bunch of announcements about new or improved services. Trying to keep up with all of them is nearly a full-time job. So, we’ve selected seven that might be of interest from the past couple of weeks and posted them below. Enjoy! + “New: Google Lets You Block Any Site From Search Results” […]
Someday, the sun will set on SEO — and the business of news will be better for it There is no question that search generally, and Google (the dominant search provider) specifically, are modern miracles. But it’s worth noting that Google provides a button labeled “I’m feeling lucky” to take users to just one page […]
This new technical report was written by Yue Wang, Hongsong Li, Haixun Wang, and Kenny Zhu from Microsoft Research Asia. From the Abstract: Traditional web search engines treat queries as sequences of keywords and return web pages that contain those keywords as results. Such a mechanism is effective when the user knows exactly the right […]
New: "2011 Report on Link Rot"
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From a Free Government Information Blog Post by J,A, Jacobs: How reliable are those URLs in your OPAC? The Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive which harvests and preserves relevant digital information from the web, has been producing reports on “link rot” for several years. They define link rot as “a URL that no longer provides direct […]
