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Inside the search engines

Written by: Jonathan Briggs

October 11, 2005 [2953 views]

All three of the major search engines run blogs to help their power users keep in touch with current thinking inside their development departments. They mix this with eclectic pieces about life, culture and the recipes in the staff canteen (Google).

Worth keeping an eye on. Use an RSS reader to monitor their syndicated feeds.

MSN Blog
Official Google Blog
Yahoo! Search Blog

Recent comments:

On October 15, 2005 at 10:57 AM, Onno van der Heijden wrote:

Was looking around the web for pros. and cons. with PHP and JSP and came accross an interesting site that attempts to make a case for Yahoo migrating from a C/C++ server side technology to PHP, also analysing other options such as JSP. You can see this at http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm

http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm

Jonathan replies: Thanks for this Onno

On January 6, 2006 at 4:17 PM, chris mukasa wrote:

On the issue of internal search engines, i am trying to input an internal search function as one of my recommendations for my case study, can anyone point me in the right direction technically.

Jonathan replies: Its worth taking a look at Google solutions for business.

When we build a search we try and take the following into account: spelling mistakes, dealing with no results, allowing people to buy directly from search results, interesting ways to explore/segment the results.

On January 20, 2006 at 11:18 AM, Mitul wrote:

I came across a really interesting article:

What really caught my attention was this:

'Yahoo sets a cookie that expires in June 2006. A new cookie from Google expires in 2036.' :D

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70051-0.html?tw=rss.index

Jonathan replies: It does not make a huge difference when the cookie expires if you go to a site regularly because a new one will be served.

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