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Will Microsoft Present Search Results To Searchers In Clusters With Meaningful Names? A new patent application from Microsoft considers ways to present search results to searchers in clusters with meaningful names. This kind of results clustering is sometimes referred to as domain clustering because it normally involves grouping together search results from the same domain. … Read more
What was the First Search Engine on the Web? I’ve been looking at the Infoseek search engine and the role it played in the history of search engines. I remembered an old book I have on search engines with a couple of chapters on Infoseek and started to reread it. I found I wanted to … Read more
This is the third post in a series about the companies that Yahoo! has purchased. I started with a look at the most recent with Yahoo! Acquisitions since Overture. Sometime after I made that post, we discovered that Yahoo! had also acquired a company named Webjay during 2005. My second post looked at Early Yahoo! … Read more
What are the most popular top-level domains? At least, which are the ones that show up most on pages indexed in Google? I wondered this yesterday after seeing a news article stating that the registration of .cn (china) top-level domain names topped 1 million for the first time by the end of 2005. The seed … Read more
Some sites and stories I’ve seen recently that I wanted to share. I’m a big fan of RSS feeds and think that they give many sites a chance to have a much larger readership than they would otherwise. But, how widespread has the use of syndication through RSS feeds grown? Ravenews takes a look at … Read more