I like how Google shows the answer for corporate headquarter searches like: amazon headquarters. For all I know they’ve been doing this for a long time, but I just noticed it recently when researching the search engines by location article.
Back in November 2006 I wrote this post: Search Companies by Location. Time to check in on the list. It’s a bit of a randomish list. I mean what exactly is a search company? And obviously there are lots of…
Interesting observation in this article: Searching For Pizza In 2008 Vs. Today. On the left is a Google search for -pizza- in 2008. On the right is a current screen capture. The pictures says it all:
Really cool way to visualize the scale happening on the Yahoo front page: http://www.visualize.yahoo.com/core/
I have a question: Natural language search is: what is the population of Portland? Boolean search is: salt AND pepper So what do we call the sort of “regular” syntax that web search engines have made so popular and common…