Google can pull up a version of their search index from as far back as January 2001. From an IT point of view, this is pretty amazing. They make it clear it’s not an exact version, but that they can do it at all is impressive. Could your company pull up a backup of anything from [...]
In a recent TV commercial for the Kellogg’s breakfast cereal, the call to action for viewers is to search for special k using the Yahoo search engine. Hitwise has talked about how the TV ad affects search volume for the term. What’s interesting about this is that “Special K” is slang for Ketamine a “general dissociative [...]
It amazes me to see search pages that so marginalize the actual results. In this example, USA Today’s “web search” (actually powered by Yahoo) takes the cake by allocating a mere 659×101 tall area for the results, assuming a window size of 1024×768. That’s 66,559 out of the 786,432 pixels on the page or just [...]
“Now you can search for U.S. Patents” says the official google blog. This is exciting news because the official patent search feature at USPTO.gov is lacking. The navigational interface is clunky, practically to the point of being non-usable. The image display interface is not cross-browser compatible and should really highlight the pages that actually contain [...]