New Overflight Features
December 2, 2008
ArnoldIT.com has added two new features to its public Overflight service. Overflight provides a round up of news stories on more than 70 Google Web logs.
Exalead, developers of the CloudView information access system, indexes the Google Web logs. You can access the service from the Overflight splash page here or navigate to this vertical content collection here. Among the features of this index are:
- A thumbnail view of the Web page in a relevance ranked results list
- Full text searching of the entire corpus of Google’s Web logs. This means that you can identify a topic such as “semantics” and locate every reference to the subject. Given the recent suggestion that Google is not interested in semantics, you will find that when you run a query for “semantics”, Google’s Web logs make it clear that semantics are an important subject at Google.
- You can access content with a date filter. With this feature you can segment a results list by time.
- If a query matches documents in languages other than English, you can select the documents by language. The query “pdf” returns hits in English, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Korean.
A happy quack to the Exalead technical team. Use the comments section of this Web log to share your ideas with us.
The highest traffic on Overflight is flowing to the Google Ads Web logs here. We have added a continuously updated stream to this selection of Google Web logs. The “river” makes it easy to watch for important new developments in Google advertising services. You can try it here.
Watch for other developments on the public Overflight site. If your firm would like to create this type of information service for your Intranet, Web log, or competitive intelligence program, write us at seaky2000 at yahoo dot com.
Stephen Arnold, December 1, 2008
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