Google PageRank for Picture Search
Google researchers are cracking the nut that is image search using the company's much-maligned PageRank computation that it uses to assign Web sites scores based on relevance.
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April 28, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008 3:33 PM/EST
March 31, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008 12:50 PM/EST
Google Supports Social Network for Spies
Spy agencies are using Google equipment to fuel its Intellipedia, a Wikipedia-like network to let agents share intelligence, a departure from the past, siloed information storage. Spies and analysts can post what they learn, only to have colleagues read it and comment. Oh, wouldn't it be fun to plug into that Matrix for a day?
March 24, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008 10:52 AM/EST
Retailers Whine Over Google's Search Within Search
Every now and then we are treated to a little (OK, a lot) whining from folks who piggyback on top of Google to make money, the long tail of publishers who cling to the hope of high PageRank scores because it affects their earnings...
October 26, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007 12:06 PM/EST
Don't Be Roadkill Beneath Google's Search Hummer
A lot of people are clamoring about drops in Google's PageRank (PR) system this week, and I have heard and read many different takes on the subject. Let me share a couple...
July 17, 2007
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 10:18 AM/EST
Google Offers Hosted Search for SMBs
<p>In a move that once again puts Google into closer competition with Microsoft, the search giant launched today a fee-based, hosted site search service targeted at small and medium businesses.<p>The new Google Custom Search Business Edition helps SMBs add search...
June 8, 2007
Friday, June 08, 2007 2:03 PM/EST
Google Universal Search Gives Big Ups to Maps, Video
Google released its universal search update a few weeks ago, and now Bill Tancer at Hitwise says the upgrade is driving a lot of traffic to Google Maps and YouTube.Well of course the YouTube bump makes sense. Like I said three...
May 17, 2007
Thursday, May 17, 2007 1:25 PM/EST
Google Korea Will Censor Results
Google Korea will introduce an age-verification system later this year that will restrict adult-themed searches to those 19 years of age and older, according to IDG: "Users will have to enter their name and national resident registration number, which...
May 9, 2007
Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:21 PM/EST
Hitwise: Google at 65 Percent of All Searches
The latest numbers from Hitwise show that Google is continuing a slow but seemingly inexorable climb in popularity. Google accounted for 65.26 percent of all U.S. searches in the month of April. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received...
March 19, 2007
Monday, March 19, 2007 3:04 PM/EST
Microsoft: Google's Blogger Clogged with Sploggers
A pair of Microsoft researchers claim to have discovered how to combat spam blogs, or splogs, and say that Google's Blogger hosting service is to blame for permitting such phony doorway pages to grow like kudzu.According to The New York...
March 15, 2007
Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:42 AM/EST
Google Anonymizes Search Logs
Google, long a source of concern for privacy advocates worried about the publication of personal search histories, announced yesterday that it would start anonymizing those records 18-24 months after the searches are made. But privacy advocates have mixed feelings about...
