Direct Answers: How Answers are Extracted from Web Pages

I’ve been writing recently about a patent from Google on Direct Answers, and how Google might take those from authoritative sources, using an intent template process (“what are the symptoms for [measles, flu, athlete’s foot,ebola]”) to include many direct answer responses to natural language queries, while also showing keyword-based search results. The patent doesn’t tell […]

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SearchCap: Yahoo Search Losing Firefox Users, Everything You Need To Know About Google’s Local Algorithm & More

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

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Report: Yahoo Search Losing Firefox Users Who “Switchback” To Google

Relying on recently released StatCounter data we previously reported Yahoo search gains in the wake of the Firefox “default search” deal announced earlier this year. However a subsequent analysis by RKG’s Mark Ballard argues that many Firefox 34 users are switching back to Google…

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Everything You Need To Know About Google’s Local Algorithm, Pigeon

Columnist Neil Patel provides a summary of what we know about Pigeon, Google’s new local search ranking algorithm that was rolled out in July 2014.

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Search In Pics: SCU Basketball At Google, Android Professor & Framed Panda

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.

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SearchCap: Bing Launches Book Carousel, Google France Homepage Gets “Je Suis Charlie” Badge & Yahoo’s Firefox Deal

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

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Google France Homepage Goes “Je Suis Charlie” In Memory Of Charlie Hebdo Victims

Google France homepage now displaying “Je Suis Charlie” badge to honor victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

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