Future of Search

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Overcoming the lack of relevant search results

It is obvious that lately, the search engines are trying to enhance their results to better anticipate the user’s intentions. Google has the advertisers with its Adwords service, and the technology to determine which results to show within the email interface. Yahoo is re-vamping Overture (Yahoo Business Services) and Inktomi; Microsoft is already jumping into [...]

To search where no-one has searched before

Search engines providers are waiting for billions of dollars to have some of the smartest people in the world working to develop the next great version to enhance more relevant results. Satellite and aerial imagery are these days the main attraction (Google Maps, Google Earth, MSN Virtual Earth, TerraFly, and World Wind from NASA); this [...]

MS Exchange

The firms selling browser-based AJAX clients running against Linux backend, which offer lower ownership costs and optimized browser-based clients and, in some cases, open-source options. There are no chances to see these vendors compete head-to-head against Microsoft. They are more probably to be installed for clients that have les sophisticated messaging needs. Another possible threat [...]

Web

Microsoft officials won’t comment on a timeline for IE7 availability, but it does expect that IE& will continue its large presence in the browsers community too. W3Schools shows IE users make up only 68% of its visitors, with Firefox accounting for 24%. The Mozilla Foundation has planned a major upgrade to its browser scheduled for [...]

SEO

SEO is unlikely ever to be an exact science since the techniques used to promote Web pages are constantly evolving as the search engines refine their algorithms to deliver more accurate results whilst combating spam. SEOs will need to take usability and conversions into consideration when coming up with the search engine marketing campaigns in [...]