SearchTools BlogSearchTools Blog - LiveJournal.comHCIIR workshop- June 24, 2008 HCIR 2008: Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval Making the connection between interface and search, this workshop is focused this year on complex search tasks. The 2007 Workshop presentations ranged from visual text analysis to online consumer choice. This year's workshop will be 23 October, 2008, in Redmond, Washington, USA.http://searchtools.livejournal.com/78605.html article on the new Robots Exclusion Protocol- June 15, 2008 My article is up on InfoToday: New Robots Exclusion Protocol Agreement Among Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft Live Search. Nothing earthshaking, just a summary from a library point of view, and a quote from Danny Sullivan saying that it's an important first step.http://searchtools.livejournal.com/78401.html More Information on the new Robots Exclusion Protocol- June 13, 2008 More Information on the new Robots Exclusion Protocol Search indexing robot writers and web publishers should definitely look at the new extensions to the REP, as there are useful additions to both robots.txt directives and Robots META tags. Most of these features have been supported by the big three search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN Live), but it's nice to have that formalized, and other search robots can take advantage of the new functionality. The new X-Robots-Tag (added to the...http://searchtools.livejournal.com/78085.html New Robot Exclusion Protocol!- June 4, 2008 Supported by webwide search engines Yahoo, Google and Microsoft, this adds directives to robots.txt:"Allow" directiveswildcards in URLs Sitemap LocationThere are also HTML meta tags and document properties directives for NOSNIPPETNOARCHIVENOODP (don't use ODP information for this page).Yahoo has a nice long blog entry on this, as does Google and MS Live Search. Great news for web developers, who've been waiting for this for a very long time.But there's nothing from the robots mailing list or...http://searchtools.livejournal.com/77886.html Yahoo vs. Google interactive geosearch- June 3, 2008 I wanted to find the trendy-but-good shop I stopped by yesterday: it's not really a cafe or a coffehouse or a restaurant. They sell sandwiches and savory chicken pie and strawberry shortcake, with cartons of strawberries stacked high in the front. I knew where it was, but not the name, so I compared Yahoo Maps and Google Maps, to learn a little about geosearch.Yahoo maps knew where I live, so it started there, and then just scrolled and zoomed until I found the corner of 51st and Telegraph. ..http://searchtools.livejournal.com/77748.html |