[Web4lib] Change in Google search results?

[Jonathan Gorman]

> In this particular search, that was a helpful offer. But where did that
> come from? And how did it choose the "microsoft ris" subset of search
> results to offer to me? Was that due to past searching? MS name
> placement?
> A glitch in the system?
>

If I had to hazard a guess, we're seeing some of the clustering technology 
that Google's been playing around with.  It noticed a good deal of results 
were "microsoft-centric" and figured that out as a keyword.  I'm pretty 
sure I've seen references to them using this technology in the background. 
Perhaps due to pressure from search engines like Clusty, Vivisimo 
(Clusty's based off this one if I remember), and some of the other 
clustering search engines they decided to try to start incorporating it 
into the results.



Jonathan T. Gorman
Visiting Research Information Specialist
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
216 Main Library - MC522
1408 West Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 244-7839





> In case you have trouble duplicating the results, the URL for the first
> page of results:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=RIS&btnG=Sear
> ch
>
> Just curious,
>
> Andrew Mutch
> Library Systems Technician
> Waterford Township Public Library
> Waterford, MI
>
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