The other day I had a look at http://www.ysearchblog.com/ A look inside the world of search from the people of Yahoo Here excerpts from a few current posts that caught my eye:
February 23, 2005 Image Search: Does Size Matter? by Kaigene Jau, Product Manager, Yahoo Image Search express queries in simple language (as opposed to meddling with the Advanced Search link) - Also Try engine - Transformed Queries: "black and white pics of tiger woods" gives not the universe of the golfer's images associated with the words "black," "white," and "pics." Also for size: "hilary duff wallpaper", "large image of tiger", "small black and white pictures of kittens" (which are NOT pics of small black and white kittens!)
February 18, 2005 How's Your Speling? Michael Mathieson, Project Lead, Query Spelling Service explains how their spellchecker is different to those found in word processing software
February 17, 2005 On the Trail of the Long Tail by Havi Hoffman, Yahoo Editorial
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html Wired 12.10 October 2004: The Long Tail by Chris Anderson "Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream." "The limitless shelf space of online commerce and the availability of powerful search engines and free or cheap publishing and communication tools create new economic, social, and cultural opportunities and new freedom of choice."
http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/ Long Tail blog a public diary on the way to a book by Chris Anderson a comment from an Amazon employee: "We sold more books today that didn't sell at all yesterday than we sold today of all the books that did sell yesterday."
February 14, 2005 Inspired: A Conversation with Reiner Kraft by Yvette Irvin, Y! Profiler Y!Q: a mechanism for distributing search boxes, an API for webmasters: insert icons within content so that their readers can access related information without o leave the page, "a search box is always a click away", "information at the point of inspiration."
February 11, 2005 You find the strangest things on video search... by Andy Volk, Product Manager, Yahoo! Video Search
February 10, 2005 Yahoo! Search Tips for Webmasters: Saving Bandwidth by Dave Simpson Yahoo! Search Engineering Gzipped Files: for example with mod_gzip for Apache. Smart Caching: HTTP If-Modified-Since header (section 14.25 of rfc 2616), webserver responds with a 304 instead of 200. Crawl-Delay: a robots.txt directive to reduce the crawler speed.
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000079.html February 14, 2005 Inspired: A Conversation with Reiner Kraft by Yvette Irvin, Y! Profiler Y!Q: a mechanism for distributing search boxes, an API for webmasters
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