According to a screen-shot on Philipp Lenssen’s outer-court.com blog Google have been considering delivering search returns broken down into functional categories, like “Review” and “Reference” and “Stores”. It brings the prospect of functional search that much closer.
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Search associated sites
October 23rd, 2006 — MarkMicrosoft’s Live Search team have come up with a really cool piece of code (a search macro, in their terminology) which allows you to search a sub-group of sites all of whom are linked from a particular site. (A similar piece of code already allows you to track sites that link to a [...]
Google plans a content economy in video
October 11th, 2006 — MarkBy buying YouTube Google have created the groundwork for a content economy in video. They have an integrated micro-payments system, developed for adwords, which is perfectly adapted to incentivizing content providers large and small in posting their material on the website.
Content owners have had three concerns about the web:
a) how do I preserve my [...]
Search for code online
October 5th, 2006 — MarkGoogle launched a code search engine so that developers can find public code more easily. Now you can find out if anyone before you has ever solved that problem you are working on.