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UK — Media and Information sites thrive in popularity as consumers seek the 'real world' on the web
|Media and Information sites thrive in popularity as consumers seek the ‘real world’ on the web In Jan 2004, nine media companies featured in the UK’s 50 most-popular brands online. By January 2011, the number had risen to 16, with the growth principally coming from TV broadcasters (ITV, Channel 4 and Sky) and national newspapers […]
by Ingmar Weber and Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo Research From the Abstract: We analyze a large query log of 2.3 million anonymous registered users from a web-scale U.S. search engine in order to jointly analyze their on-line behavior in terms of who they might be (demographics), what they search for (query topics), and how they search […]
Super searcher, super librarian, and super sleuth Greg Notess provides a screencast about how to locate the new spot where Bing has placed the link to access cached copies of pages. The screencast is embedded on Greg’s Search Engine Showdown blog.
From a Search Engine Land Blog Post by Barry Schwartz: Today, Bing has announced that Facebook Likes will be more tightly integrated. Now, if the regular search results displayed are also liked by one of your Facebook friends, that will be shown. Keep in mind, the search results themselves are not changing in order based […]
From a Search Engine Land Post (With Screen Shot) by Matt McGee: Reflecting the growing number of content types on its platform, Facebook has changed its search results display — the drop-down that appears as soon as users begin typing in the Facebook search box. The new display is organized into different content types, replacing […]
From a WSJ Article: Facebook is increasingly being used in courts to decide who is—and who isn’t—suitable to serve on a jury, the latest way in which the social-networking site is altering the U.S. court system. Prosecution and defense lawyers are scouring the site for personal details about members of the jury pool that could […]
In honor of Presidents Day, Bing has placed a new visual search gallery online. Today’s release (the 117th gallery) allows users to find fast facts about each POTUS (President of the United States) with images being returned instead of text. Direct to POTUS Visual Search Page Example Search: 1. After arriving at the page look […]
Matt McGee from Search Engine Land Writes: Your friends’ activity on Twitter, Flickr and elsewhere — but for now, not Facebook — will soon be a lot more visible in Google’s search results, including having an impact on how pages rank. Google has announced an expansion of its Google Social Search results that’s beginning to […]