googleblog.blogspot.com - 30 days ago
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We are excited to announce that we've built a Custom Search Wikipedia skin that makes it easier for you to complete your research on Wikipedia. Wikipedia allows users to register and personalize their Wikipedia environment via the configuration of options and the use of styles or skins . Just ...
googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com - 30 days ago
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googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com —
A different specification is generated for every Wikipedia
page (based on url ) by a tiny AppEngine...
application at http://googlecustomsearch.appspot.com . The specification defines a search engine with two facets, labeled "internal" ( Linked Wikipedia ...
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A contextual search experience for Wikipedia
venturebeat.com - 10/20/2009
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venturebeat.com —
Wikia , the home of fan-based wikis, has
acquired the LyricWiki database of licensed song lyrics. LyricWiki...
users, in return, are now able to use Wikia’s custom tools including the Question and Answer section. Part of the deal is that Wikia ...
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Wikia expands into lyrics
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Google Custom Search Turns 3, Rolls Out 3 New Features
Search Engine Journal —
... Wikipedia Custom Search Skin — Google now puts search across all Wikipedia articles hence providing your users with highly contextual search results when searching within Wikipedia. It will also provide users with topical results based on the link they can find on the Wikipedia article that they are currently reading. Wikipedia Contextual Search is the subject of another blog post at the Google Official Blog. ...
Google builds Wikipedia custom search engine
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... more quickly.
A key feature is contextual search which only considers pages that are linked to a particular Wikipedia entry. This is great when a word has multiple meanings, as it helps to sift out irrelevant information.
The new search technology isn’t switched on by default, but can be enabled by following instructions on Wikipedia’s Custom Search skin page.
Hopefully this change will make Wikipedia even more useful.
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Google Puts Some Search 'Skin' In The Wikipedia Game
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
... customization tools, wrote Rajat Mukherjee, group product manager for search at Google, and Mathias Schindler of the San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation in a blog post introducing the Custom Search skin . "We are excited to announce that we've built a Custom Search Wikipedia skin that makes it easier for you to complete your research on Wikipedia," Mukherjee and Schindler wrote Tuesday on the Official Google Blog. The launch of the Wikipedia search customization tool coincides with the third anniversary of Google's Custom Search release, the pair noted. Google and ...
New Bing ad: Oooooooh scary!
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... on their YouTube channel today:
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Bing: the Vampire Engine, on YouTube
Apparently vampires prefer Portland, Oregon to our own prince of darkness lair in Forks, Wa (probably because there’s only like 2 restaurants in Forks, not much need for an engine for that decision).
So while Google is rolling out Music Search, Maps Navigation for Android, Similar Images, Contextual Search for Wikipedia, and more (all within the last 3 days), we get new ads. ...
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