Microsoft has a quiet test running in its research labs that may be of interest to some of my search geek readers. It requires registration, alas, but it might be fun to check out. Called " U Rank " here’s a snip from an email sent to me from Microsoft:
Some of the interesting features of U Rank include:
Create the perfect search results for you: Put results in just the right order and add images and video results for added context.
Annotate results: Write notes to summarize important information under each URL.
Short-cuts: Move your favorite sites up; then put an ! in front of the query and go straight to the top result.
Lists: Keep lists while you’re researching (“hotels for my next trip”, “DSLRs for me”)
Collaboration: Share URLs with friends (“related projects”, “our reading list”)
Recommendations: Tell your friends what you like (“best books,” “favorite restaurants”)
The goal of the research project is to l...
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Odd that Google would be anonymous in public documents regarding eBay and the Australia market. No matter, the anonymity was outed , and now it just looks like the company, which competes directly with eBay’s PayPal via its Checkout, is being sneaky.
This can only further drive eBay, one of Google’s largest customers, into the arms of Yahoo and Microsoft.
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Marketing exec Ian Schafer has gotten folks talking (in particular, over at Mashable ) about his move to sell his Twitter background on eBay. This is clearly an experiment, as much as I like following Ian on Twitter, I doubt his pageviews support anything other than a super endemic, non scalable campaign. That said, it got me thinking, how might Twitter make money? It’s got the attention of a lot of people. But it’s also got the Facebook problem - millions of hours of at... more
Those of you who read this site regularly know I’ve talked about how much I love Bonnaroo , and how excited I am that the producers of that event (which, yes, I am going to again next week) are producing Outside Lands here in my backyard. I mean, it’s only the first time in history that a band is playing at night (three days and nights!) in Golden Gate Park, and oh, by the way, it’s Radiohead. And Wilco. And Beck. And Broken Social Scene. And Jackie Gr... more
Searching Together From: feeds.feedburner.com Post Date: 2008-06-04 13:09:06
It happens - the phenomenon of similar ideas all hatching at the same time. The latest seems to be synchronous web experiences. I’ve heard about three or four of them in the past few weeks, the latest being Microsoft’s Search Together. From a page explaining the research project:
Search, of course, has become ubiquitous for enabling users to find Web content, but existing search engines have been designed for use by an individual. Search interfaces don’t support collabo... more
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