Previously, it was easy for sites to see not only the traffic they received from organic searches, but also the search terms a user entered and, in some cases, the position in the search results where their site was listed.
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This broadening of search has been stimulating increased user engagement in search.
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Many companies now collect large datasets on consumer behavior, be it online search patterns or user demographics.
Yahoo plans to extend the time it keeps user search records to 18 months, The Associated Press reports.
Google, for example, has come under fire in the past for the way it handles a massive database of user search data.
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The announcement also includes image search on desktop in which user can upload any image or incorporate an image URL into Google search for the identification of that image.
Realtor.com, for example, allows the user to search property listings based upon city.
The new Sherlock acts as a "personal Web shopper" by allowing users to search the contents of user-selected online stores simultaneously, and return results in a price-comparison table.
The localization service may provide the user with search results in the form of web pages that list which retailers sell the desired product in the vicinity of the search origin.
Social Intelligence Corp. takes personal information given to the company by its clients and uses its own software to search the web for user-generated content, collecting a broad array of links and categorizing data to generate matches.
Google, the popular search engine and a heavy user of Linux, is one potential target.
Jetbox uses a well tested user interface to integrate a content management system, WYSIWYG editor, mailing list, website statistics, user registration, search engine, and a document manager.
What if I told you it was possible to now optimize search efforts based on B-to-B-specific targeting criteria, such as organizational size, industry vertical or specific title of the user performing the search?
In addition, users can download the media content to the user's PC and search the contents of up to 5 connected PCs or smartphones simultaneously and import the music content from the user's PC or friend's phone into the user's play list.
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Like other search programs, it works by building an index that can keep track of all of a user's mail and quickly search through it.
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There will not be any hiccups, mistakes or silly questions asking the user to repeat the search query.
Eric Schmidt claims that Google would never violate user trust, and that the more the company knows about a user the better the search results.
Google has struggled to profit from YouTube's enormous stock of videos and user accounts since the search giant acquired the company in October of 2006.
EPIC's petition accuses Ask of secretly tracking users' search histories--a trail that could be used to violate their privacy--even though the company asserts that its search engine stores no data on user behavior.
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While a keyword job search for "certified public accountant" might turn up ads seeking a small-business chief financial officer who is also a CPA, semantic-search software would intuit that the user is looking for accounting jobs and list only those openings.
This represents the first time that a cable operator will make its entire video on demand (VOD) library available via a retail DVR and TiVo Premiere will become the first retail product to fully integrate a cable VOD service, along with linear television and broadband content accessible through TiVo's user interface and intuitive search capabilities.
The user experience for the same search query can be significantly different from one person to the next.
The local search experience is also about what the user can accomplish within the flow of the results.
Despite criticisms over its privacy policies, Google is one of the few search engines that has yet to leak user data.
Mark Lucovsky, a legendary Microsoft engineer now at Google, recently released a Google search box optimized for mashups on a user's own Web site.
Its engineers are exacting when it comes to the user experience with their beloved search engine, but its hardware has rarely matched those standards.
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