#specialtysearch — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #specialtysearch, aggregated by home.social.
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Search Engine Land: Ask YouTube AI search experience expands to U.S. desktop users. “Ask YouTube lets users type natural-language questions into the YouTube search bar and receive responses that combine text, video clips, long-form videos, and Shorts. Users can also ask follow-up questions to refine results.” I’ve tried it. It’s fine. YouTube’s regular search is so bad in my opinion that it’s […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/15/search-engine-land-ask-youtube-ai-search-experience-expands-to-u-s-desktop-users/ -
The Verge: Perplexity’s new AI tool aims to simplify patent research. “Patents are notoriously difficult to search for, but Perplexity has launched an AI-powered tool that’s supposed to make the process a little easier. Its new patent research agent allows you to search for patents using natural language, rather than a string of keywords.”
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USPTO: USPTO launches new AI Pilot for pre-examination utility application search. “In furtherance of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) steadfast commitment to dramatically improve examination quality, response time, and efficiency, the agency today announced the launch of its Artificial Intelligence Search Automated Pilot (ASAP!) Program. The ASAP! Program will test the […]
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Calishat: Exploring “War-Torn” Portland With Local Search America. “Local Search America is free to use and free of advertising. In this article I’m going to walk you through its three tools to find local TV stations, government agencies, and institutions of higher learning near Portland and search their Web sites.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/28/calishat-exploring-war-torn-portland-with-local-search-america/
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Ghacks: Google launches App for Windows to search online, local files and Google Drive. “Windows users who install the new app on their device may use the keyboard shortcut Alt-Space to bring up the search interface. The search finds content on the Internet as well as local files, installed programs, and Google Drive files according to Google’s announcement.” I thought, “Hasn’t Google done […]
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USPTO: USPTO enhances assignment records search process. “The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is streamlining the overall assignment search experience by replacing two legacy search applications—Patent Assignment Search and Assignments on the Web—with one, more reliable, secure, and easy to use Assignment Search application.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/28/uspto-uspto-enhances-assignment-records-search-process/
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Aaron Tay: A Deep Dive into EBSCOhost’s Natural Language Search and Web of Science Smart Search – Two bundled “Ai-powered”search (I). “This post will examine EBSCOhost’s Natural Language Search (NLS) and, in the next post, Web of Science’s Smart Search (not to be confused with Web of Science Research Assistant). Both are interesting because they introduce this ‘semantic’ query translation […]
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Calishat: Local Search America: Search the Web by DMA. “Today I finished creating Local Search America, a new way to create specific search spaces for authoritative institutions in American DMAs… Enter a city and state and Local Search America identifies the television stations and government agencies which serve that area as well as the institutions of higher education in that area. Up to […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/06/local-search-america-search-the-web-by-dma-calishat/
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Search Engine Land: How geotagging photos affects Google Business Profile rank: Study. “How does adding coordinates to the EXIF data affect local rank? Our team wanted to find out. That’s why we recently conducted a 10-week study on the effects of geotagging for local rank.”