Marissa Mayer, Google Incorporated's vice president of search products and user experience, made the announcement that the search giant will make a significant push toward integrating results from a variety of its search engines. Internet search providers typically offer, in addition to their general Web search engines, a set of specialty engines that deliver only news articles, photos, local business listings, blog postings, maps and video clips. The inconvenience of having multiple search sites from one company has become apparent, not to mention the fact that many people are simply unaware of the specialty search engines beyond their main Web search sites.
Google seems to be the first to actually come to the point of correcting the issue once and for all and has begun to move towards what it calls a "universal search model," while acknowledging it is still far from where it wants to be in this area, which is to deliver a single set of results culled from all its engines. Results of this effort will be often subtle and gradual, the company warned. As part of the effort, Google is implementing a new technical infrastructure able to handle the intensive computational tasks involved in providing integrated results. An upgrade to the results ranking mechanism is also being rolled out.
Link: Google Experimental
News source: InfoWorld
Google seems to be the first to actually come to the point of correcting the issue once and for all and has begun to move towards what it calls a "universal search model," while acknowledging it is still far from where it wants to be in this area, which is to deliver a single set of results culled from all its engines. Results of this effort will be often subtle and gradual, the company warned. As part of the effort, Google is implementing a new technical infrastructure able to handle the intensive computational tasks involved in providing integrated results. An upgrade to the results ranking mechanism is also being rolled out.
Link: Google Experimental News source: InfoWorld
Edit: on web search now it has a new look and when I search "microsoft" I get
Floated to the right and...
And what about all those fake search engines that sneak themselves into the results?
IMHO eliminating this kind of stuff would be much more helpful than lumping even more types of sites together.
I've had the same problem before when I've wanted to read a real review of something and all I get is a load of crap from hundreds of price comparison sites that don't even work...
Searching for: GOOBERS
39 Results:
Location No. of Results
C:windows 0
Your Fridge 2
Under your desk 15
The Toilet 3
7-11 down the street 67
Nearest theater 184
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