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Scobleizer: Appleman raves about Google’s custom search capabilities

  • Christopher Coulter · 2 years ago
    because he decided which sources should be included in the result set

    Geee, imagine that, back to the human-edited and handpicked all over again. Not like Lexis hasn't been kicking that feature since get go.
  • Chris Slemp · 2 years ago
    Yes, and for targeted audiences that can be ideal. You can always remove the filters with a click... we've just launched the same thing using Live Search over on MSDN: http://search.msdn.microsoft.com/search/Default...
  • Dennis Goedegebuure · 2 years ago
    Sometimes my posts are included in the index within a couple of hours, it is incredible how fast!
  • zdavatz · 2 years ago
    Yes, Google's Custom search engine is a nice idea but does not work well for me. I believe Yahoo-Pipes does a better job.

    Talking about Ontology, Search and Taxonomy, the only software I know of where the software really works is InfoCodex. InfoCodex comes with a linguistical database with 3 Mio words and terms in German, French, English, Italian and Spanish. What does this mean? This means IC can actually do a cross-language search and find similar documents in another language. This is true-cross-language-search. Autonomy, Fast, OmniFind, no of those can do that. It also gives you a grafical overview of the topics in any given documents collection. Also see: InfoCodex Procedure
  • Phil Rack · 2 years ago
    I noticed the speed over the weekend when it comes to indexing. I changed my companies website around and added some new keywords and Yahoo and MSN had them in less than 24 hours. Google was not far behind and had them the day after.
  • zdavatz · 2 years ago
    The thing I do not like about Google and Yahoo is, that they do not recognize documents with similar content. It happens often on the Web that a post or document is spread out over more then 50 websites. Now that is great for the author but not for the searcher because it blows up your search result unnecessarily. With InfoCodex this will not happen because the linguistical database recognizes similar documents and puts them into groups. This does not blow up your search result unnecessarily. InfoCodex Procedure
  • Steve Trefethen · 2 years ago
    My Google Custom Search solution for Delphi has been up for a day and I've already gotten some good feedback. It seems to be a very nice way to filter out noise and is practically the equivalent of performing a site search for the sites included in the engine. I've found that relevant items which would normally appear 6-7 pages deep in a standard Google search appear close to the top which is very nice.

    http://www.stevetrefethen.com/delphisearch/
  • Matt Cutts · 2 years ago
    "Anyone notice how much faster Google is indexing sites lately? I do."

    Robert and Dennis Goedegebuure, let's talk about something else. :) Photowalks, anyone?