Posts Tagged with ‘search-engines’

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about Powerset and their recent restructuring. Today, I talked with Barney Pell one of the founders and former CEO of the startup. As I have said before many times, Barney is an extraordinary person with a brilliant vision and Powerset has been one of my favorite topics of discussion. As far as my previous post, I had some concerns over the underlying causes for Steve Newcomb's absence and also Barney's shift [...]

Over at the Search Engine Roundtable I discovered an interesting post discussing recent changes in Google's definition of a 'click' with regards to its AdSense publisher network.
"Last night I received an email from Google notifying me that they are changing the required action of a user, for a click to occur on an AdSense ad," explains Barry Schwartz. "Google said previously, if you clicked anywhere on an ad, including the background of the ad, that would constitute a click. Now, [...]

Just last week, I covered an innovative image search engine, known as Imagery, that introduces some very welcome features to make the process of searching for images on the web easier.
Even though less clicking is involved and there is no need to visit external sites with Imagery, the basic searching functions the same as all of the other existing image searching options. There is a major flaw in the current approach, according to visual-based search innovator ActiveSymbols, in that today's [...]

Image searching has become somewhat of a staple among search engines. Google began offering it in 2001 followed by Yahoo! and even the image-only search startup Picsearch.
Be that as it may, little improvement has been made since then to the searching process or to the interface with which users must interact. When searching for images using any of the top 3 engines mentioned above, visitors must scan small thumbnails, then click to nagivate to a framed version of the page [...]

Anyone who is familiar with SearchMash knows that it is essentially Google's playground for new search technologies and features.
In a major update, Google has now introduced a fully Flash-driven version of the search engine that also makes use of the Snap Shots preview add-on so widely used around the web.
Flash has always had its naysayers who cite incompatibility, SEO-UNfriendliness, and slow load times, but Google seems to have created a very well-developed search engine that offers users much [...]

With all of the hype and attention that Google has been getting for every single move it makes, it is somewhat refreshing to see an innovative, useful search tool come along that is not associated with the billion-dollar giant.
There are so many search engines and websites with databases full of information that, often, it is hard to decide where to start. For instance, if you want to find a news story, you might begin with Google News, but to find [...]

We have just been informed of a major update one of Profy favorite non-Silicon Valley startups, Ziki, the website that serves two important goals: aggregating all your web content in one place and enhancing your (or your company's) visibility via search engines. We talked about Ziki when they initially launched the English-language version (originally the service was only launched in French) and offered to sponsor your name on major search engines for free. Honestly, I think there are way too [...]

I have had rather vast experience as freelance translator so I am particularly interested in testing all translation-related Web tools. There are some good translation and language-learning communities online (and we have already mentioned some of them). But I have never seen any good example of machine translation. I have seen funny examples, ridiculous examples, even hilarious examples. But never in my life have I seen a good (or even so-so) example of machine translation.
I always thought that using [...]

We had an exclusive interview with Dr. Riza C. Berkan, CEO of hakia today. For those of you who don't know, hakia is building the Web's new “meaning based” search engine. The vision of the company is to improve search relevancy and interactivity to take web search beyond its current boundaries and into the future. We have covered hakia on a couple of occasions and have been loocking forward to talking with Dr. Berkan.  
Dr. Berkan is a nuclear scientist who specializes in artificial [...]