Posts Tagged ‘smart search’
Web Search, Child’s Play?
We all know that the younger generation is much more tech savvy than our generation, and we can asumme that most children use the popular engines (Google,Yahoo!). Most of us don’t know more than that on children and search engine. There are more ways children search the web. In this post we will try to explore it.

SEO Thoughts on Personalized Search
A lot of words have been written in the past month on personalized search and the marketing impact it will make in the future. Due to the impact Google has on the Internet market, every change the guys at Google make, such as the implementation of personalized search, wakes up SEO professionals and gets them on their feet.
Google Wave or Twitter Search?
Due to the fact I’m part of a search engine company, I do a lot of searching on the Web.
I just found a cool tool that measures what trends are popular right now on Twitter.
Trendmetr is an entertaining and fun tool. I tried it on search-related topics to learn what topics interest Twitter users. I typed “twitter search,” “google wave,” “search engine,” and “power search.” As I suspected, “google wave” is more trendy than the others, but “search engine” continues to be a very trendy topic for Twitter users.
Try Trendmetr searches on subjects that interest you.
Power Words™: Producing a Powerful Search Query
Many people have asked me about SortFix’s Power Words feature. I realized that although most people understand very well that the Power Words are those words related to the search, and should be added to the search query. Only a few grasped the idea that Power Words can be used as a negative filter.
Therefore, in this post, I’ve decided to elaborate about the power of our Power Words.
New York Times visits Google
I read an article on the New York Times website that related to last week’s post. It was written by Saul Hansell and concerned Google’s well-known search engine.
Google Enhancer according to BatesInfo
Batesinfo is part of Mary Ellen Bate’s Information services. The blog had a post covering Sortfix in August 2008.
BateInfo describes SortFix as a Google Enhancer. Bates reviews SortFix’s ‘Power Words’ use with our ‘Add to Search’ and ‘Remove’ boxes.
I also recommend to take the time to read Bate’s research tips on online matters, search engines and much more.
Improve Your Curry Recipe… And Your Search
The Internet has pretty much changed the lives of amateur chefs like myself. There are millions of recipes online — more than we could ever hope to find in cookbooks. But, sometimes, this can be too much of a good thing.
In this post I’ll demonstrate how SortFix can lead your search to the right recipe — in this case a tasty curry.
Just the other week, my wife and I had a craving for a decent curry. So we searched on Google for “curry recipe.”As you can see, we got 1.3 million results.

curry recipe
