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Discussion, news and information about searching via the internet and other means. For more background, see web search news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 423 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Other Searching
The past couple of weeks have been a busy period for science search tools. In this post we take a look at several resources that have been online for read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 423 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Other Searching
For the second consecutive year The World eBook Fair is online with close to 750,000 titles online at NO CHARGE. Most are ready to download (PDF) or read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Sugarrae 423 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://skooiz-en.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Searching
The focus group wasn't huge, but this is the first study/research/documentation I've ever seen about French Canadian search habits. Topics covered read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 423 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Mobile Search
Several years ago, before I started working with Danny and Chris at SEW, I began my interest in what I call mobile or wireless access to information. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 423 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Other Searching
In this post, we report on Payscale.com, a database with job salary info (both free and fee-based), raising nearly $9 million dollars in Series C ven read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 423 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nlpc.org)
Category: Video Search
From the release: "Our goal is to do our best to expose the pirating of copyrighted material by finding and posting as many apparently pirated works read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 423 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
We posted earlier about Seattle-based PayScale receiving venture cap funding. Today, more vc $$$ head to Seattle with $2.3 mill in Series A funding g read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 13, 2007 - 8:17 pm
Posted By: Caydel 422 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.caydel.com)
Category: Other Searching
Barry Schwartz ranks highly for 'fat hairy naked man'. I happen to rank highly for 'kill people for money'. What about the rest of you? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Aviva 422 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.domainersgazette.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Analysis method for estimating search volume on a keyword. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jbones 422 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seologs.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Did you ever want to take a look a competitor's site stats, specially for popular keywords and visitor counts? Well wish no longer. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 421 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.exalead.com)
Category: Other Searching
Some busy days at a search tool I like a lot, Exalead.
http://www.exalead.com

First, Exalead just won the 2007 Microsoft-ChinICT Award for the most innovative and fastest growing IT enterprises in Europe and China.
http://blog.exalead.com/200 read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WesleyLong 421 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.twerq.com)
Category: Other Searching
As online searching evolves many industry experts are speculating that algorithmic search is beginning to see the end of its days. The new web (Web 2.0) is founded on user interaction and involvement in not only receiving information on the web but read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 421 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Other Searching
I spent some time today compiling a bunch of articles that I've posted ResourceShelf and while working with Danny, Chris, et al. at SEW. They discuss content-based image retrieval, cameraphone search, and related issues.

If this is a topic of i read more »
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Avatar Posted By: KevP 421 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://kevprice.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
A collection of search operators with some competitor and keyword research tips thrown in for good measure.

Did I miss any? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: sensebot 421 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Other Searching
I'd like to share with fellow Sphinners a very non-traditional concept of Web search results that we have at SenseBot. We think that by shifting the paradigm of what search results are, user satisfaction with search can increase dramatically.

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Avatar Posted By: christographer 421 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Searching
Usability guru Jakob Neilsen isn't shy about expressing strong opinions about search. In today's Just Behave column, Gord Hotchkiss has a fascinating interview with Nielsen touching on everything from universal search results to personalization an read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bhartzer 421 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.billhartzer.com)
Category: Other Searching
Incisive Media has launched a vertical search engine for the mortgage industry. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: hybridsem 421 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hybridsem.com)
Category: Video Search
The longest list of video sharing sites available online today. Check this out as it provides information on video marketing with statistics and the longest list of video sharing sites for your video marketing needs. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 419 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Other Searching
The Markets Data Center (MDC) from The Wall Street Journal is an one impressive resource. This compilation of databases (some with near real-time data), lists, and other data is a "must have" bookmark for both the business researcher and investor. A read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 419 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Other Searching
More and more states are providing databases with prescription drug pricing information. Most recently, Vermont went live with their database. In this post a bit of background of what's available along with a growing list (we are updating daily) to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RhineStonne 418 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://hubpages.com)
Category: Other Searching
You have heard of Yahoo. You have heard of Google. But have you heard of GahooYoogle? Yes. Its just that. Its a combination of Yahoo and Google. Google + Yahoo = GahooYoogle. It helps you to search both Google and Yahoo at the same time. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2007 - 4:33 pm
Posted By: toprank 418 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Mobile Search
Smart phones are hot and cell phone web surfing is even hotter. Here are basic tips you can implement now to start optimizing web sites for mobile search. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 417 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.indeed.com)
Category: Other Searching
The other day I posted about a category of search tools I call Search + Intelligence.
See: http://sphinn.com/story/114

I wanted to point out that meta/federated job engines, in this case Indeed.com, is doing some interesting stuff with their dat read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobWeatherhead 417 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.worldofsearch.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Searching
My initial thoughts on the effect of the convergence of different results into the SERP. With the intorudciont of the new ask.com platform and Google universal search, what does this mean for advertisers? Open discussion welcome! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 417 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Mobile Search
When polled during a recent Chris Sherman mobile search web event, most pro SEM attendees indicated that they had not yet geared shop production to consider and exploit the rapidly expanding field of mobile search. Read on for the essentials of mobi read more »
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