“Update: Google reactivated their help entry with a new text. ‘It is Google’s policy not to censor search results. However, in response to local laws, regulations, or policies, we may do so.’”
retrievr
“retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch. Currently the index contains many of Flickr’s most interesting images. If you’d like to have your images (or the images for a specific tag) added, please let me know. A submission interface is planned!”
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Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
Weblog from Google employee with a lot about search engine optimization.
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A9.com brings Yellow Pages to life by adding 20 million images
“The most powerful technology A9.com invented for Yellow Pages is ‘Block View,’ which brings the Yellow Pages to life by showing a street view of millions of businesses and their surroundings. Using trucks equipped with digital cameras, global positioning system (GPS) receivers, and proprietary software and hardware, A9.com drove tens of thousands of miles capturing images and matching them with businesses and the way they look from the street. The whole process (except for the driving!) is completely automatic, making it fast and efficient. Block View allows users to see storefronts and virtually walk up and down the streets of currently more than 10 U.S. cities using over 20 million photographs. We are driving and at some point hope to cover the whole country.”
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8 Quick Ways to Fix Your Search Engine
“Over the past year, Iíve evaluated the search experiences on a number of popular content sites. With the help of author and interface designer Darcy DiNucci, I picked apart the search and result designs from sites like Apple.com, NASA.gov, SchwabFoundation.org, and a variety of others. We focused on content sites, rather than e-commerce or Web applications, and we avoided general Web search engines entirely.”
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Effective Research Strategies for Finding Information on the Web
“In research, the find ó particularly finding the answer ó is cause for jubilation. But at what cost? Untold hours during which you initiate several false starts or follow a few distracting, albeit interesting, links? Personal defeat as search engines repeatedly yield too many hits with those at the top leading nowhere, or to irrelevant pages? And when you find the answer, can you trust it? Is it complete, authentic, authoritative and up-to-date? Does it help you envision the forest or spotlight just one tree? Successful Web-based research encompasses economy of time and effort. It also takes into account the quality of the answer. The key is to focus on the strategy and skill of the hunt rather than the find.”
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Guides To Specialized Search Engines
“A list of multi-subject guides (with descriptions) to thousands of search engines covering hundreds of subjects. Listed in approximate order of size, specificity of subject categories, and some aspects of search engine collection quality.”
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findability.org
“Interface stands on the shoulders of infrastructure. User experience relies on the foundation systems of information architecture. And, the biggest problem on today’s web sites and intranets is findability… findability.org is a collection of links related to findability and the design of findable objects.” By Peter Morville
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Researchers develop 3-D search engine
“The mind-boggling speed and reach of Internet search engines mask a severe limitation: They are powered by words alone… In hopes of wrapping their arms around more of that stuff, computing researchers have developed new search engines that can mine catalogs of three-dimensional objects, like airplane parts or architectural features.”
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