People Search Digest

They’re a little late to the party, but Microsoft finally one-upped Google’s search merger with social networking giant Myspace. Yesterday, Microsoft announced that their budding relationship with Facebook would soon expand to include integration of the Microsoft Live search function on the popular social networking site. Details are scant as of now, but we do [...]

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In its quest to become a global one-stop site for online communication, Facebook has added a search feature to its messaging system, allowing users to easily locate old messages in their inbox with a click of the mouse. Though this type of feature has been readily available in Gmail and Yahoo among other services, until [...]

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Traditional search engines use complex algorithms to determine search results. Such algorithms are cleverly designed and do a pretty good job of returning relevant results, but they can also give throw everything at you but the kitchen sink. And, sometimes, even the kitchen sink. Most people will be able to eventually find what they’re looking [...]

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