In the news: "2010 TREC Legal Track co-coordinator Maura Grossman and consultant Terry Sweeney advise lawyers to learn the latest search tools, their strengths and weaknesses. They look at the pros and cons of keyword searches, as well as such concept searches as linguistic and mathematical models."
Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 24 August 2010. Copyright 2009. ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.
As you probably know, there is a lot of noise out there. You don't need to look further than your email's spam filter to find an out-pouring of information on search engine marketing, search engine optimization, paid search, etc. Unfortunately, most of the "information" you will find is relatively worthless..."
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Source: Lawyerist.com, 15 June 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.
I started with Why is the sky blue? I got an answer at the top of the result page, but the related questions on the right were downright weird. They included "Why Is the World Going to End in 2012″, "Why Do Dogs Eat Grass" and "Do Spiders Have Good Eyesight". Um, okay. I tried for something more obvious: When was
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Source: Research Buzz, 25 May 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.
This post was written by Tara Calisham: "The Official Google Blog announced yesterday that Google Translate was getting more text-to-speech translation options. English and Haitian Creole were the initial languages, and French, Italian, German, Hindi, and Spanish were added a couple weeks ago (I musta missed that!)
Google Translate has added the speech synthesizer eSpeak, which is adding text-to-speech for Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese and Welsh...
You can try this for yourself. Google Translate's URL is http://translate.google.com/, while if we wanted to get an English to Hungarian translation for good food, the URL would be http://translate.google.com/#en|hu|good%20food. (By the way, that URL is gorgeous. I love that structure.) There's a little speaker icon by the translation; click on it and a rather tinny machine voice will tell you a jó étel..."
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Source: Research Buzz, 12 May 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.
This post was written by Gyi Tsakalakis: "If your practice is locally focused, getting found in the traditional organic search results isn't the only way to get found online (although it is a good one). Almost as important, is to ensure that you have claimed listings in the various local listings of the major search engines.
Getlisted.org is a great place to get started..."
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Source: Lawyerist.com, 10 May 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.
This post was written by Tara Calisham: "A clever idea on the part of Yahoo. In addition to searching for restaurants, you can search for specific items in restaurants when you're doing a Yahoo search. So if you don't want just seafood but grilled Tilapia, you have a search option. I like the idea but I got confused a couple of times.
Say I want tiramisu in
Yahoo gives you a map and a list of restaurants..."
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Source: Research Buzz, 3 May 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.
This post was written by Tara Calisham: "I got a queue full of buzzy goodness to share with y'all next week, but here's a resource that can't wait. You might have heard about real time search engine Sency. If you haven't, stay tuned; I'll have a writeup about it later on. Today I want to focus on one of its new features: Sency for Cities. the new Cities feature is available at http://sency.com/cities.php.
Sency for Cities shows you what's trending on Twitter in 13 US cities (Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC) and also gives you keyword search for the geographical area at the same time..."
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Source: Research Buzz, 23 April 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.
This post was written by Tara Calisham: "Search engine Conjugation.com announced yesterday that its "conjugation engine" is now available in a Web site that conjugates 15,000 verbs in the affirmative, interrogative, and negative forms, with all tenses and persons. That's http://conjugation.com/.
It's simple to use: just enter a verb and get the conjugations. There are popular conjugated verbs on the front page, too (along with some verbs generally regarded as rude -- watch your filters.) I tried the verb spin.
You'll get a results screen at the multiple tabs. It starts with the familiar past and present participle, along with indicative and imperative. Then the site gives lists of present and past indicative ("he/she/it span"), past participle, and indicative.
And that's only on the first tab!..."
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Source: Research Buzz, 31 March 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.
This post was written by Tara Calisham: "What's the opposite of spring cleaning? Spring adding? Spring enhancing? Whatever it is, Bing is doing it, with an announcement last week of new features coming up on its Web site...
The first thing is the Quick Tabs in the Explore Pane at the left of the search results...
Bing is also riding that real-time bandwagon. It's already teamed with Twitter and has started testing "new experiences for real-time results..."
From Bing Cool to Bing Pfui. Bing also announced a new feature called Map App...
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Source: Research Buzz, 29 March 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.
