The blogs are abuzz on the release of the new search project, Wikia. It has been a disappointing note everywhere (from what I have read so far). There have been detailed deliberations on the vision of Wikia Search and how it will not pan out as a major search engine in the immediate future . …
Launched about a year and a half ago, Otavo is famous as the intention engine. Headquartered at Canada, the engine is loosely coupled around search results and result seekers. Founder Amanuel Tewold named it after “Organizing Text, Audio and Video” which is what Otavo seeks to do of course, but with a social twist. The …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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” …
