How a Search Engine Might Use a Searcher’s Knowledge, Interests, and Education to Rerank and Validate Search Results

The amount of pages on the Web that a search engine could try to index is extremely large, and the approaches that search engines attempt to use to index and rank those pages is mostly an automated effort, but that doesn’t mean that the search engines don’t have people take a look at search results, … Read more

Google’s Virtual Bookshelf Plans?

Some surprising news came out a few weeks ago that Microsoft was canceling their book scanning and search program. Google’s book search continues on, and provides an opportunity to find digital copies of books online. You can also create a library of books of your own choosing at Google, with some aspects of a virtual … Read more