Previously here on Search Engine Journal, I covered various Semantic Search Engines which have erupted on the scene as alternatives to Google and Microsoft / Yahoo. Here are 4 more search engines that use different approaches to make results highly relevant.
1. Evri
Evri.com, to put it briefly, presents to you connections between content that goes beyond keyword search. The technology powering...
The ideal search engine would be able to match the search queries to the exact context and return results within that context. While Google, Yahoo and Live continue to hold sway in search, here are the engines that take a semantics (meaning) based approach, the end result being more relevant search results which are based on the semantics and meaning of the query, and not dependent upon preset keyword groupings or inbound link measurement algorithms,...
Just like the sea of content on the web, there is immense mix and mash of technologies that go into creating web sites. HTML, CSS, XHTML and their different versions to name a few.
Opera is planning to make available a search engine that indexes this structural information.
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There is a simple belief that sums up the effort behind viewzi, a search engine that takes many different 'viewpoints' on search (literally). A standard display of results does not suit every taste. So, provide them with different layouts on a slick interface specific to content or source. The different views available at Viewzi include: Web Screenshot : Results arranged in a flow layout with option to move back and forth. Simple Text : Serial list...
Keeping users abreast with the latest trends in the news is what news aggregators are all about. Silobreaker, a UK based search and news engine provides a comprehensive interface along with several additional features that understanding news in context.
The engine culls information from 10,000 sources providing graphical display of relationship between entities mentioned in the news, the news trends that too including geographic data.
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A new web service that started in September takes an interesting approach towards the information overload problem on the web. Yotify takes an approach that covers the ground between search engines and social networks. While search engines provide us with results from all the web and social networks are people and activity centric, Yotify provides a service that lets the user maintain a watch or scout on select sites and be alerted when...
CloudTuner, an Israeli start-up is working on technology that applies a new perspective to the importance of keywords in search. Users are provided with a WYSWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface consisting of keywords in a tag cloud. Different keywords can be selected and their importance in the query altered. The relative importance of the words is reflected in their size and text colour. Semantics would be applied to provide suggestions...
Searchme, the visual search engine has recently launched two new features - Stacks and media search. Stacks enables users to intuitively save search results and make them shareable. The results can be mailed, added to blogs or added to FaceBook, Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon or MySpace. Creating stacks of results is easy. Just drag the search result page to the top left and the page is added to the stack. I tried it on...
Careerjet, a job search engine celebrating its 8th birthday has many great accomplishments to its credit. First, the engine supports 56 country specific sites in over 20 languages. Second, it has launched public APIs and innovative affiliate programs for both online and offline partners. The crawlers of the engine use semantic analysis to index job related information from over 58,000 sites on a daily basis. The technology allows them to scale to the ever...
After writing about SurfCanyon, I came across another search engine that brings a good focus to improving the user interface to search as well as adding a few nifty features. As mentioned by David Stat, the co-founder of ManagedQ (source: Venture Beat) Stat points out that the basic search interface hasn't evolved since Google's early days, and that users still have to enter their queries into a "DOS-style command line." "It's like no...
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