A new search engine, Blekko, uses human editors to promote quality pages and block spam content from its results.
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By Tom Simonite
The Web isn’t kind to new search engines. Several newcomers, including Cuil, SearchWikia, and Searchme, have all debuted and disappeared in short order in recent years. ...
A Web startup demos a “predictive” search engine
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A startup called Recorded Future has developed a tool that scrapes real-time data from the Internet to find hints of what will happen in the future. The company’s search tool spits out ...
Search queries aren’t always better than traditional trend-spotting methods.
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For the past few years, computer scientists have touted Web-search data as a way to spot emerging trends–from changes in housing prices and unemployment numbers to the next box-office ...
Distributing a search engine’s index around the world could make it faster and more efficient, researchers say.
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Searching the Web could become faster for users and much more efficient for search companies if search engines were split up and distributed around the world, according to researchers at Yahoo.
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A real-time search engine bases its results on users’ browsing habits.
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Later this week, a new “real-time” and “social” search engine called Wowd will open a beta version of its service to the public. The company says that its search results ...
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