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Issue #052: Social Search
----------------------------------------------------------------- SearchReturn Discussion List "Understanding Internet Search Technology" ----------------------------------------------------------------- Moderator: Published by: Disa Johnson SearchReturn http://www.searchreturn.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- April 06, 2006 SearchReturn Issue #052 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SEND POSTS: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Refer a friend: http://www.searchreturn.com/subscribe.shtml ----------------------------------------------------------------- .....IN THIS DIGEST..... // -- ESSENTIAL NEWS -- // "Yahoo! Improves MyWeb" "New AdWords Prefs" ----------------------------------------------------------------- // -- ESSENTIAL NEWS -- // ----------------------------------------------------------------- ==> Yahoo! Improves MyWeb http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000283.html Essentials: Social Search is a primary Yahoo! differentiator they hope over time will become essential to a large population of search users. Commercial noise on the Web makes search imperfect as an application that Social Search can go a long way towards using the search community to refine results and make commercial noise a much smaller problem. You now can search through sites that have been searched and bookmarked by not only your contacts, but all public bookmarks by others including experts. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ==> New AdWords Prefs http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060404-125026 Essentials: Now Advertisers with AdWords can choose preferences for positioning, although the new control may dramatically lower impressions. The new preferences do not appear to influence your AdRank, but when your natural AdRank falls within your preference settings, your ad will appear, (otherwise it will not). This is a way for advertisers to fine tune their impressions to only those spots they want when they have evidence they get better results. It is also a way for Google to provide the missing control advertisers get with the competing Yahoo! system that provides full control over ranking. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stay Tuned. Got feedback?: http://www.searchreturn.com/feedback.shtml Archives: http://www.searchreturn.com/digest-archive.shtml Alternate formats: http://www.searchreturn.com/info-formats.shtml Manage Subscriptions: http://www.searchreturn.com/help/manage-subs.shtml Problems unsubscribing? Contact the postmaster: mailto:postmaster@searchreturn.com Information on how to sponsor this publication: http://www.searchreturn.com/help/advertise.shtml Published by SearchReturn http://www.searchreturn.com Website Membership: http://www.searchreturn.com/register.shtml The contents of the digest do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SearchReturn or Disa Johnson. SearchReturn and Disa Johnson make no warranties, either expressed or implied, about the truth or accuracy of the contents of the SearchReturn Digest. Copyright 2006 Disa Johnson. All Rights Reserved. -----------------------------------------------------------------