Archive for "real time search"

Back in May 2009, Google added Search Options to their SERPS (Search Engine Results Page) which allowed users to “filter, refine and generate different views of your search results”.

In an effort to further improve the relevance of their results to searchers, Google have unveiled 9 new search options: past hour, specific date range, more shopping sites, fewer shopping sites, visited…

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It was just last week that we discussed Google’s intentions to look more closely at real-time search through Twitter. But it now appears that Google might need to set their sights on Facebook instead.

News has broken in the last day or so that Facebook has acquired social networking site Friendfeed for around $50 million.

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Yahoo! isn’t resting on the laurels of its recent deal with Microsoft. The ink is hardly dry on the 10 year agreement and Yahoo! is busy pushing out new tests, enhancements and already talking new search innovations.

Here’s a wrap of the activity coming from Yahoo! HQ in the past week.

• New SERPs Page Being Tested

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Search, from a user’s perspective, is all about timeliness, accuracy and relevance.

Give me the web content most closely aligned to my search needs and make sure it’s up to date (and preferably accurate).

Google, at their recently held Searchology event, unveiled a new search options feature that allows users to refine results to those gathered in the…

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