Posts Tagged with ‘search-engines’

I just finished an article at Yahoo! News by Michael Liedtke of AP. The article describes a new search engine designed to appeal to aging baby boomers. Cranky.com processes search requests from the point of view of older users. Basically, the new search engine provides fewer results so that older users will not be overwhelmed with all the data. Google and other advanced search engines really provide way too much data for older people to see and process. There is an aggravation aspect to this factor, [...]

PRWEB, Las Vegas, January 9, 2007- Retrevo showed off their new search engine today at the Consumer Electronics Show. The engine is the first of its kind, and is going to be dedicated to pre-purchase research for buyers. Retrevo users will be able to use information gathered from the engine to make more informed purchases and to obtain technical support after the sale. This will give the consumer a very wide spectrum of information through a single portal. There will be [...]

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These guys look pretty serious to me! For one thing, they look as pale as Neo did right before he followed the white rabbit in The Matrix! Seriously, Steve Newcomb, Lorenzo Thione and Barney Pell just moved into their new offices in Silicon Valley. The founders of Powerset aim to be the next big gun search engine??in town! When I first read the latest New York Times story about the race to trump Google, I was simply looking for new [...]

What do you feel when you make a search and the results you get are not related to your query at all? Don’t you wish there was a better way to do your search easier and faster? There are cases when we don’t need to use all the content from all the websites available on the Internet, because we don’t need their information anyway.
And I was lucky enough to get to know about Rollyo. It is a customizable search engine [...]

Founder of Wikipedia Jimmy ‘Jimbo’ Wales has managed to put web geeks into a flutter right on the verge of the holidays’ season. The news about Jimmy Wales launching a revolutionary search engine has already been covered by numerous online publications and blogs.
The new search engine is code-named Wikiasari (with Hawaiian ‘wiki’ for ‘quick’ and Japanese ‘asari’ meaning ‘rummaging search’). Many have been quick with calling the new project a Google killer.
Wales believes (and many support him in this belief) that [...]