Bookmarking has become more personalized thanks to the likes of Social bookmarking sites such as Digg and StumbleUpon. Bookmach is another search engine that provides a personalized approach to bookmarking content.
From the outset, BookMach is an engine that indexes several thousands of blogs, e-zines and as they call it, highly reputed sites. A user can […]
BookMach : Bookmarks & Sites That Find You
December 27th, 2007 by Arun Radhakrishnan | No Comments
Like.com : Revisiting Visual Search as It Should Be
December 26th, 2007 by Arun Radhakrishnan | 4 Comments
Riya launched Like.com, a visual search engine in the year 2006. Image search in its true spirit should be about the image only. Most image search engines today rely on additional tags and meta data to refine their image searches. Its more like feeling for a color with your eyes closed.
Riya, having accomplished at Facial […]
Meta Search Engines : Why Use Them? Still Important?
December 24th, 2007 by Arun Radhakrishnan | 10 Comments
Engines which work on top of search engines has been a growing area ever since Web Search went mainstream.
Most meta-search engines use content from the top engines - Google, Yahoo or Live Search and many also refer to content specific sources such as Flickr, PicSearch for image search. Infact, DogPile was one of the […]
Zuula : One Site to Search Them All
December 17th, 2007 by Arun Radhakrishnan | 8 Comments
Zuula is a meta search engine that presents information from multiple engines in a neat tabbed format. Its more of a portal to perform extensive search when a wide array of sources are necessary to be researched.
A quote from the Zuulablog
The beauty of Zuula is that, on those occasions when you want to use other […]
Imagery : A Novel UI to Google Image Search
December 14th, 2007 by Arun Radhakrishnan | 1 Comment
User Interfaces to search engines have not undergone much change since the last decade. When it comes to searching for URLs, perhaps the vanilla single-text-box-list-of-result UI is the best we need. But for image search and more importantly media search, more innovative interface designs are possible. Proof for that is Imagery, a neat UI on […]
Summarization, the Answer to Web Search : Interview with Dmitri Soubbotin of SenseBot
December 12th, 2007 by Arun Radhakrishnan | No Comments
Search engines are as much the first source of information as they are the starting point for research. Summarization of content of query results is an innovative technique to obtain an intelligent response from the system. This is the concept behind SenseBot and I am glad that Dmitri Soubbotin took the time to answer a […]
Is Social Bookmarking the Successor to Search Engines?
December 10th, 2007 by Arun Radhakrishnan | 13 Comments
I am not the first person (and will not be the last) to have raised the question as to whether the Diggs, StumbleUpons and Reddits of our times are a precursor to the emerging generations of social book-marking technologies which will eventually replace Search engines as we know them. Below, I am p hrasing some […]
PicSearch : Intuitive Relevant Image Search Engine
December 8th, 2007 by Arun Radhakrishnan | 5 Comments
Founded by two engineering students at the beginning of this millennium, PicSearch is a multi-language, image search engine that rivals Google’s and Yahoo’s image search service, with a database of more than 1.7 billion images. The engine also indexes video and audio files.
As always, the firm uses patented technology for measuring relevancy and “family-friendliness” of […]
Eurekster’s Swicki : Custom Search Engine for Every Community
December 5th, 2007 by Arun Radhakrishnan | 3 Comments
Eurekster, founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco has come out with its product Swicki, a customizable search portal and widget. Eurekster is a leader in the area of custom and content-discovery technologies.
The main concept swirls around providing a search engine that is customized to the community it is serving. Leveraging the patented technology, […]
Oodle : Easing Search for Classified Ads
December 5th, 2007 by Arun Radhakrishnan | 1 Comment
Oodle, the search engine for classified advertisements has roped in several features to make the task of rummaging through classified easy and informational.
Whether you are searching for a home or a job, Oodle provides local advertisements specific to your requirements. The engine covers classified ads over many cities and educational institutions.






