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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#1 in natural search really matters
April 16th, 2007 — MarkBeing number one in natural search is important, we kind of knew that.
But just how important we probably couldn’t have said. The answer is hidden away in a Wikipedia entry about click through rates. Wikipedia links to Red Cardinal’s definitive analysis of click-through rates based on Search Engine ranking. They base [...]
Google “to overtake ITV” in 2 years
November 2nd, 2006 — MarkTV executive Andy Duncan yesterday pointed out that if Google continues to generate the same proportion of its revenue from the UK (it generated a massive 15% here in the first six months of its current financial year) it will net $1.57bn this year alone and will overtake ITV as the single largest recipient of [...]
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 [...]