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The impact of Facebook’s Graph Search on traditional search
Posted By rich,
January 16th, 2013
Facebook yesterday announced their well anticipated entry into the search world with the unveiling of their new ‘Graph Search‘, an upcoming product allowing users to search based on the recommendations and interests of their connections.
How does Facebook Graph Search work?
In what Zuckerberg aptly referred to as ‘some really neat stuff’, Graph Search will aim to index all the posts, shares, photos, and ‘likes’ of users and deliver them through the use of simple and concise language. Typical uses of Graph Search will differ from the every day queries searchers bombard Google with; searches are entered in natural language such as “What are some good restaurants nearby?”, with results generated from each individual’s social graph. One senior Facebook engineer gave the example of “Who are single men?” as a query which would return a list of single man connections, raising the additional possibility Facebook may also be entering the online dating market. Non-descript and custom filters can also be applied, again in natural language, to any search. So continuing with the dating theme, the query “Single women who appreciate E.L. James” could be used to better filter down results.
Should I use Google Translator for Business?
Posted By Sam,
July 5th, 2012
Q: Should i use Google Translate for business?
A: No, or at least not without it being fully checked by a native speaker.
Whether it is for a search engine bot or a real searcher, the best translator is a real one, not a free translator service provided by a search engine such as Google. Google and Bing’s Translator works without the intervention of human translators using this supposed “state-of-the-art” technology.
Search for “Translation Disasters” and there are a huge amount of spurious (and unproven) mishaps involved in using the service. Whether urban myths or not, there seem to be a few instances recently where real issues occurred. The overall recommendation is that Google and Bing Translator is great for doing minor translations, but never rely on any translation tool if your business or reputation relies on it. (more…)
Why are the results in Bing & Yahoo! so different?
Posted By Andy,
January 30th, 2012
I noticed earlier in the month that Bing was doing something major with their search results and looking at their results this morning – little has changed. I’m noticing less websites being returned with five pages being the maximum amount of pages the user can select from. So what is happening with Bing!?