Mac OS X Tip of the Week: Changing the Order of Search Results
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Did you know that you can change the order in which your Spotlight search results appear? If not, check out this week&#146;s tip.
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Microsoft&#39;s widely anticipated search engine, which launched in test mode yesterday, encountered some glitches on its first day.
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A few notes on the NY Times outline... 1. I switched it back to the frequency sort, having tried it as an alphabetized list for about 18 hours. Now I want to see what happens with it flipped around so the most frequent keyword bins appear first. 2. Not sure, but I think it will empty out later this afternoon, as yesterday's stories expire, and before tomorrow's stories ship.  3. It seems that at least some people have bookmarked the site and are refreshing it. If so, I'm glad -- because that's the way these pages are most useful, they tell you something about what changed. Remember this is "news" not olds. 4. The outline view is something like TechMeme for the Times news flow. Not exactly because the keywords are assigned by people. Unseen news mavens. Where do they reside? Are they on the upper floors or in the basement of the NY Times skyscraper on 8th Ave, or somewhere inbetween? Maybe they work out of their homes. My mind wants to visualize these people, but I have nothing to cling to. It's not an algorithm that's determining where things sort out, it's people. Otherwise known as editors? Or are they librarians? 5. Do you bookmark the outline or the river? I'm a river guy for sure. I wonder about other people. 6. Francine Hardway twitted at me: "Times River is awesome on my iPhone! Was reading it while waiting for eye surgery and it was very distracting." Amen. That's the big secret. I wish there were a way to get everyone to look at the river on their cell phone. Eyes would open. 7. Thinking about integrating the two views, cross-relating them. Not sure exactly what I'll try first. That's why I wanted to let it settle in for a bit before moving in a other directions. 8. Of course, I know that if this ever becomes a "real" product, the user is going to control the view he or she wants to be the default. But for right now I'm experimenting. I want to see what people think. Enough people were asking for an alpha view that I wanted to see what would happen when I gave it to them, and if anyone would scream. Screaming isn't a bad thing, it's data.
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Yahoo is rolling out a global search index update which will reindex content on the web, result in ranking changes and the &#8220;shuffling&#8221; of pages according to the Yahoo Search Blog. Along with the global update comes the new support by Yahoo for the NOYDIR tag, which will stop Yahoo from listing Yahoo Directory titles and [...]
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Jimmy Wales' Wikia Search will open to the public next week with an eye toward improving search by letting users tweak search results in a fashion similar to how users edit entries on Wikipedia.
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Google has launched a Linux version of its desktop search; Windows version has been out for three years, Mac OS X for two months.
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In love with column view? Find out how to make it a permanent thing at the Apple Pro/ site in the latest Mac OS X killer tip. [Sep 29]
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Indexing is stylish, but can you profit from its idiosyncracies?
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Learn how to tell whether you&#146;ve turned on Snap to Grid or Keep Arranged by Name for a particular window. It&#146;s the latest Mac OS X killer tip at the Apple Pro/ site. [Nov 10]
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This interview is the beginning of a series on search engines. We'll briefly look at their history, and delve into some of the techniques of optimizing Web sites for search engines. By Lee Underwood. 0812
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Google's Desktop Search application indexes a PC hard drive when it's not being used
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Up to now, I&#39;ve chosen my browser based mostly on which one shows up on my desktop by default. Since Apple&#39;s Safari is preloaded in the Mac OS X Dock, that&#39;s what I&#39;ve been using.
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Editor's note: This story was reprinted from Computerworld. For more of Computerworld's coverage of the Mac, visit its Mac Knowledge Center.
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New Search Suggest tool tries to guess what you're looking for and offers a drop-down list of terms.
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My friend Brian Smith of Comparison Engines and SingleFeed is currently running a promotion for Search Engine Journal readers to help them submit nd optimize their shopping cart feed for free to Froogle / Google Base. Cyber Monday is only 10 days away.  If you&#8217;re not up on the shopping comparison engines, you&#8217;re potentionally [...]
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History of Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Testing  Calum I. Mac Ceod was first up. He discussed how Google used to rank pages (title and pagerank). Now its a bit more complicated, with proximity and linkage data. He goes through the various on page factors and describes how most are not ...
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Learn how to use Comments to help you keep track of your files in Finder windows by checking out the latest Mac OS X killer tip at the Apple Pro/ site. [Oct 20]