Search UX Innovations with Bing and Google — SDForum Search SIG

On Tuesday, September 29th, join Bing, Google, Yahoo! and your fellow Search SIG members and guests for a lively conversation on innovations in search user experience.
Time: 6:30 – 9 pm. Location: Microsoft Silicon Valley Conference Center, 1065 La Avenida Building 1, Mountain View, CA
Free for SDForum Members. $15 at the door for non-members.
Dinner will be [...]

Real-Time Search. May 12th Search SIG. SDForum

The basic premise of real time search is to answer the simple yet important question: “What are other people saying about my query right now?”

The New York Times on How Patients are Using the Internet to Get Medical Advice

Earlier this week, the New York Times had an article that was very relevant to next week’s Search SIG on the “Search for Better Health.“  Their article “Logging on for a Second (or Third) Opinion” had a lot of interesting data points including (from their Pew Internet and American Life Project reference)

“of those with a [...]

Oct 9th. The Search for Better Health: Empowering Consumer Health

Panelists:

Yahoo’s Director of Product Management, Don Chennavasin
RightHealth/ Kosmix’s RightHealth Product Manager, Saumil Mehta
Healthline’s Chairman and CEO, West Shell

Moderator: Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog and The Health 2.0 Conference

Date:

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Time:

6:30pm – 9:00pm

Location:

Microsoft Silicon Valley Conference Center

Street:

1065 La Avenida, Building 1

City/Town:

Mountain View, CA

From health search engines and widgets to social networks and web med [...]

Search SIG Tomorrow Night.

At least one of the panelists, plans to make a major announcement tomorrow night…
Join the lively discussion with Facebook, FriendFeed, Mahalo, and Wikia Search.
Date: July 8, 2008
Time: 6:30pm-9:00pm
Location: Cubberly Community Center, Room H-1, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto
Pizza will be served.

New Search SIG Co-Chair

Please join me in welcoming Aditya Agarwal as the new co-chair for the Search SIG. Aditya is Director of Engineering at Facebook, has deep experience in search, and brings great enthusiasm to the Search SIG.
Robert Tri, Co-Chair

July 8th Event. Social Search.

Social Search
Will Community Wisdom Take Search and Discovery to the Next Level?
With your moderator Safa Rashtchy, join a lively discussion with

Facebook’s Ari Steinberg,

FriendFeed’s CEO Bret Taylor,

Mahalo’s CEO Jason Calacanis, and

Wikia Search’s Jeremie Miller

on what up-and-comers are doing to provide improved search and discovery capabilities through the wisdom of the crowd and how it will impact [...]

People Search – Search SIG – Tuesday, May 8th

Update!
This should be a good one! People search is fast becoming a leading vertical search category, with many different approaches to solve the problem. We have three of the leading thinkers in the game on our panel, plus Michael Arrington of TechCrunch Moderating. “Find yourself” at this awesome event!
Michael Tanne – CEO Wink
Jaideep Singh [...]

SearchSIG – Product Search on Upcoming.org

Here is the upcoming.org event: http://upcoming.org/event/146278
I’ll update the blog with the final information tomorrow.
Thanks,
-beach

Update on the Product Search SIG

Just a quick note. The next Search SIG on Product Search will be moderated by Brian Smith of ComparisonEngines. Brian has also written for SEW and is now a contributor to Search Engine Land. The event will be held at the Yahoo! main campus in classrooms 4 and 5 in building C. More info after [...]