Archive for “August, 2007”

On this page the following entries were made in the “August, 2007” time-frame.


Navigational, Informational or Transactional query?

Posted August 15th, 2007 by Debanjan Ghosh

Fact: 80% of the web queries are informational with about 10% of each being navigational and transactional.
Characteristics of Navigational Searching:

Queries containing Company/Business/Organization/People Names
Queries containing domain suffixes
Queries with “web” as the source
Queries Length less than 3
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search engine ranking for different search queries !

Posted August 13th, 2007 by Debanjan Ghosh

In this blog entrée I will be mentioning all the possible ways a search can be refined and rearranged for the benefit of the user. The following blogs will try to explain each of the ideas based on research done by both academic and the search engine corporate world.
Following are the ways which have been [...]

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More on Yahoo Mindset !!

Posted August 13th, 2007 by Debanjan Ghosh

More on yahoo mindset
How is yahoo mindset different?
It allows you to sort search results for your query into commercial or non-commercial (informational) results, based on whether you’re shopping or seeking information.
What is commercial and non commercial information?
Commercial implies that the primary purpose of a given page is to sell you something.
Informational implies that the primary [...]

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Classifying Web site

Posted August 13th, 2007 by Debanjan Ghosh

Classifying web site

Yahoo mindset - A Yahoo! Research demo that applies a new twist on search that uses machine learning technology to give you a choice: View Yahoo! Search results sorted according to whether they are more commercial or more informational (i.e., from academic, non-commercial, or research-oriented sources).
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