Posts Tagged ‘searches’

Query Suggestion Strategies that Search Engines May Use

{ Posted on Aug 12 2009 by admin }
With billions of pages on the Web, trying to find the right words to use when you want to search for something can often be hard, especially when you’re looking for information on a topic that you don’t know too ...Read More »

Google Geocoding, Ambiguous Locations, and User Submitted Data

{ Posted on Jul 13 2009 by admin }
Have you ever done a search on Google Local Search like “pizza near empire state building” where you enter a building or a landmark instead of a zip code, or a street, or city or state name? Pizza Near Empire State ...Read More »

Boosting Brands, Businesses, and Other Entities: How a Search Engine Might Assume a Query Implies a Site Search

{ Posted on May 20 2009 by admin }
Google has a number of special search operators that you can use in a search to specialize your searches. One of those special search operators is the “site” operator, which allows you to restrict your searches to a specific ...Read More »