Search Engines: Personalized Search Engines
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Ask and you shall receive: The Humanization of Search
In a world where we’re almost always connected to technology and devices, we have instant access to information wherever we are —...
Expect Labs Offers Free API: Google Now In A Box
Expect Labs, which is behind the MindMeld consumer application, has announced a new developer API. The new API brings the...
Samsung, Intel Invest In “Anticipatory Search” Startup Expect Labs
Expect Labs, which is a small startup in the San Francisco Bay Area, has a very impressive list of investors. Today the company announced a new...
Yandex Launches Personalized Search Results For Eastern Europe
Russia’s leading search engine, Yandex has launched an approach to personalizing search results for users in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and...
Foursquare Takes On Yelp With New Homepage Search Box
Perhaps it was always inevitable that Foursquare would shift its emphasis from location-based social networking to local search. Indeed, the...
Pew Report: 65% View Personalized Search As Bad; 73% See It As Privacy Invasion
Personalized search? Both Google and Bing will tell you that it provides better results. But two-thirds say they don’t care. They view...
Trapit Aims To Be Your Search “Personal Assistant”
Somewhere between the “precision of search and the serendipity of social media” lies Trapit. Trapit is a “personal discovery...
Bing Gets More Personal With Adaptive Search
Bing has announced at SMX East today a new personalization feature named adaptive search. It seems a lot like Google’s previous query...
Walmart Buys Former Search Engine Kosmix To Power Social And Mobile Shopping
For those who follow search it was initially one of those “WTF moments”: Walmart acquiring erstwhile Google challenger Kosmix....
Search Technology Behind iPad Magazine “Zite”
Discovery Engine Worio has taken its search technology and reinvented itself as an iPad magazine along the lines of Flipboard. Called Zite...
Hunch Tweaks Home Page, Focuses On Recommendations
Hunch has announced what it calls a “streamlined and simplified” home page, but the changes really reflect a slight change in focus,...
Google Video Now Offering “Personalized” Video Recommendations
The Google Video Blog announced the launch of personalized video recommendations based on your search history. To see them, make sure you are...
Google Expands Edit My Search Results Feature?
The Google Like/Don’t Like feature, where you can move up results, hide search results, or remove search results, seems to have been...
FAST Buys Recommendations Engine AgentArts
Enterprise search provider FAST Search & Transfer has acquired personalization platform and recommendations engine AgentArts. The...
Yahoo Travel Adds Personalization, New Maps
Yahoo Travel has redesigned and added a range of features, including personalization and new mapping tools to the site. It’s also seeking...
The Pros & Cons Of Personalized Search
In the past two weeks I’ve had the opportunity to talk to both Marissa Mayer and Matt Cutts about the impact of personalization at Google....
Will Google Remain ‘The Start Page For The Internet’?
This subject is worthy of perhaps a 10,000 word New Yorker article. But this will just be a relatively short post based on some thinking...
Google Ramps Up Personalized Search
Google is stepping up the push into personalized search results. A new change announced today should cause many more people to take up the...