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LinkedIn Launches Faceted Search Feature

Posted on December 14, 2009 by admin

LinkedIn has launched a new addition to its People Search Experience. It's called "Faceted Search". Faceted search allows you to search for a person and narrow that search down by specific "facets" as you go along, in order to quickly find the most relevant profiles possible. Users are presented with categories under the following facets as they search: current company, past company, location, relationship, industry, school, and profile language. The following clip nicely sums up how it works: "The filters are generated in real time for every query by parsing all matching results and extracting the most important attributes," explains LinkedIn's Esteban Kozak. "We then present those to you in an intuitive interface that lets you select one or multiple filters per facet. You can refine, expand or stumble upon insightful information by simply clicking on the search options that matter to you." Kozak says that Faceted Search improves precision, increases efficiency, and reduces the need for complex queries. "It significantly reduces the need for complex Boolean queries," he says. "This was a particular need we heard from many of our power users." LinkedIn gave its entire search interface an overhaul earlier this year, and has recently made significant design changes . A couple months ago, the company announced that it had surpassed the 50 million-user milestone. Continue reading →

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Lime Wire’s Plans for Working with the Music Industry

Posted on December 12, 2009 by admin

Earlier this year, we spoke with Lime Wire CEO George Searle about the music industry and the company's future, as it offers one of the most widely used file sharing services. Now we have engaged in a Q&A with Zeeshan Zaidi, who came to Lime Wire as the company's Head of Global in July, with a background as a record label executive, a musician, and a lawyer. WebProNews: We're told the LimeWire software has been translated into Arabic and will soon be translated into Persian, while the software and website are translated into a total of 23 languages. How are languages chosen and what does this means for the global peer to peer community? Continue reading →

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Is the Murdoch Bing Deal Really Just About the Wall Street Journal?

Posted on November 24, 2009 by admin

After all is said and done Rupert Murdoch may still be seen as the sly old fox that really knew best. Many bloggers and journalists have pounded the insanity of Murdoch's suggestion that News Corp publications might strike an exclusive indexing deal with Bing and delist itself from Google's search engine. However, what if Murdoch was really only talking about the Wall Street Journal and not all News Corp publications? Then the idea might actually make a lot of sense. According to Compete.com WSJ.com already receives the largest percentage of its traffic from Microsoft' (18.74%). This is contrary to many sites which typically receive the majority of their referrals from Google, often many times more than what Microsoft delivers. Yahoo provides another 6.3% and since Bing will likely be owning Yahoo's search business that means Microsoft is actually delivering 25% of the Wall Street Journals current traffic. Continue reading →

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