Posts Tagged with ‘semantic-search’

It seems that everyone has already grown accustomed to the idea of search engines market completely dominated by Google. But at the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Search, Portal and Advertising Platform Group, has made a statement showing that at least the software giant sees a possibility to change the situation. And the change is in the field of better user experience based on behavioral targeting and semantic search technologies. Currently the [...]

Yesterday evening a new search engine was launched by a group of search experts (including two ex-Googlers) - Cuil is the name and the blogosphere is abuzz about weather it will kill Google. Honestly, I can never understand why we constantly expect every single new product to kill something that is strong in the particular niche already. Normally I hate that type of post titles - they sound to me like BMW is a Mercedes killer. And [...]

I was excited to try out Evri, the new "semantic" search engine on the block. Usually our author Cyndy gets more excited about semantic web applications than I do. I'm ever hopeful of finding one that truly works and becoming sold on the whole idea of a semantic web, though.
Sadly, I must continue to hold out hope for true semantic web. Evri, while attractive in appearance and very pleasant to surf, is not the semantic web search answer I was [...]

Every so often, one of these “not an app, but a feature” products surprises me. SurfCanyon is one of those feature products. Originally designed as a web site, they have relaunched as a browser plug-in designed to make your search results better.
SurfCanyon runs on top of Google, Yahoo, and Live searches (not Ask.com, though, or any of the search aggregators like Dogpile), unobtrusively. All you see is a small target icon next to a link in search results. If you [...]

Wikia Search , the new user-generated search engine from the Wikimedia Foundation, launched today to much fanfare. Still in alpha, Wikipedia founder and CEO Jimmy Wales admits that as an alpha release, it still lacks user data, leading to poor results, but he expects the search to improve over the coming weeks.
According to Wales, the future of Internet search depends on change according to Four Organizing Principles: transparency, community, quality, and privacy. And while he claims that Wikia [...]

I received my much anticipated invitation to Powerset's Powerlabs the other day, and was excited to finally get an inside peek one of the years most interesting startups. I have covered Powerset many times since my first article back in January. The brainchild of Barney Pell, Steve Newcomb and Lorenzo Thione held great potential in providing natural language search relevance for the Web. Powerlabs does indicate some significant developments toward natural search, but the larger issue to me is: "Where [...]

Hakia is rolling out yet another aspect of their semantic search technology today. MO (or meet others) exhibits another interesting aspect of “search” by allowing people to meet other people entertaining the same queries. By adding this P2P social element to search, hakia is effectively spreading semantics (or meaning) across a much wider spectrum and toward true answers and understanding. Users simply click on the MO icon after making a query and they are taken into rooms where people have [...]

Explaining and understanding hakia and other semantic search engines has been a little more than tough for developers and potential users these past few months. Readers and users are not dense, but perhaps they are impatient and a little ADD. Developers, especially the good ones, spare no text or video to explain these complex and often abstract creations. Still, most visitors (to hakia in particular) are not willing to devote more than a few seconds to evaluate the potential of [...]

My good friend Dr. Riza Berkan just clued me in to a new comparative feature at hakia where users can test hakia against various search engines side-by-side. This feature has been on the hakia site for a little while but Riza and hakia have not publicized it and I thought our readers would be interested. Hakia has been under the radar fora little while now, so I was really glad to get a note from Riza and some cool news [...]