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Yahoo! & Wikia - User Engaged Search

June 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Yahoo! just announced, as part of their SearchMonkey initiative, the launch of Search Gallery on Wednesday and TechCrunch has a piece on the new and improved (“doesn’t suck”) release of Wikia Search. Both efforts, although they use very different methods, put tools in the hands of the community to offer a better search experience.

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Building a Competitive Search Market

May 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Michael Arrington of Techcrunch kicked off a very good discussion with his post on the importance of competition in the search space.  Although some are suggesting that it might be time to just cede the market to Google and tackle other usability issues, we think otherwise.
Beating Google at the following scenarios - Long Tail of [...]

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