Google “bias” survey — start of a flame war?
Results of a survey of bias in the search algorithms of Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL, and Ask.
The year of searching
A review of 2010 from the perspective of search engine design.
The Web: getting deeper and more invisible
The view of the World Wide Web provided by general search engines, such as Google, is very limited. A recent study suggests that the “surface” Web (accessed by general search engines) consists of about 167 terabytes of information, whilst the “Deep” web holds about 91 000 terabytes. Special services have been developed to explore the Deep Web. Find out more . . .
Google Books: how does it work?
A modified searching algorithm has been introduced for Google Books, that takes account of one hundred predictive indicators of “title” relevance.
Like it — or loathe it!
Google’s Chief Executive Officer, Eric Schmidt, has recently commented that Google searches will display more relevant results when users supply more information about themselves
Developments in search engines: Wolfram|Alpha
The Search Engine industry does not stay still: there are developments and improvements in existing search engines and the launch of search engines based upon new approaches. The “Developments in search engines” thread will highlight some developments in the searching industry.