Opera’s Metadata Analysis Tool Could be a Treat to Web Developers
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,...
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Yotify : Scouring the Web for Notifications That Matter to You
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...
SenseBot Releases FireFox Plugin for Google Result Summaries
SenseBot is a search engine that produces summaries of the results that appear when you perform a search. Its a tool that is very useful...
23andme : Social Networking Comes to Genomics
The trend today is about ‘socialnetworking-zing’ everything. From corporate portals to hotel sites, the buzz is about how to get users to sync with other...
FyberSearch Search Engine
FyberSearch got its popularity for having been started by the then 19 year old Nathan Enns. The engine sports a lot of options from a...
Pixsy : the Media Search Engine
Pixsy, a media search platform that was once named in the Top 50 coolest websites of 2006 by Time magazine, uses innovative visually focussed search...
Searchles : The Multimedia Community Search Engine
Searchles ( pronounced “Circles”) is a complete Social Search engine founded by John Hopkins University graduate Chris Seline. The site is focussed on creation of...
Gameseekr : Online Gaming Search Engine
Gameseekr is a search engine tailored for games which are accessible and playable on the internet. It also supports a social model that enables users...
Collaborative Blog Search with BlogDigger
RSS and blog search engine BlogDigger provides services such as media search, link search and grouping of blog results. Media search pertains to RSS feeds...
Meta Search Engines : Why Use Them? Still Important?
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...
Zuula : One Site to Search Them All
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...
Summarization, the Answer to Web Search : Interview with Dmitri Soubbotin of SenseBot
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...
PicSearch : Intuitive Relevant Image Search Engine
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...
Eurekster’s Swicki : Custom Search Engine for Every Community
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...
Yoople : Yahoo + Google + People !
Yoople is a search engine where users get to re-rank the results if they find the results of greater relevance. The collaborative search looks to...
Snap : Search Engine with a Visual Twist
As the name succinctly suggests, Snap provides users with a preview or rather a snapshot of each search result along with several added features that...
Omgili : Search Engine for Forums & Discussion Boards
Omgili stands for “Oh My God I Love It”. Its a search engine exclusively for discussion boards, opinions, forums and conversations and returns results on...
Ixquick : Rating Based Meta Search Engine
Ixquick.com meta search engine submits your search query to 14 search engines and the results are ranked according to a “star” ranking system. While the...
SideKiq : Search Engine for the Power Searcher
To put it in one word, SideKiq is quirky. At this meta search engine, you search by category. Enter the query into the search box...
GigaBlast Search Engine : Hand Built Algorithmic Search
GigaBlast, the search engine has an interesting history. Matt Wells wrote the code for GigaBlast from scratch in C++ after quitting InfoSeek. Thus for a...
Oingo Meaning Engine, Semantic Search & Google
Oingo, the meaning based search engine debuted in 1998 i.e. at the time when keywords and relevancy alone were the driving factors for online content,...
Accoona : AI Powered Search
Accoona, the AI powered search engine has not received much popularity. The engine touts a powerful AI based algorithm that uses techniques that go beyond...
SurfWax : The Customizable Meta Search Engine
Meta search engines do the one logical thing that relates well to the “not-reinventing-the-wheel” concept, i.e. presenting results culled from the best repositories in the...
Swoogle : An Engine for the Semantic Web
Swoogle, the Semantic web search engine, is a research project carried out by the ebiquity research group in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department...
Lexxe : Search Engine that Answers Exact Queries
Lexxe, the natural language processing search engine also adds the power of clustering to provide results with subset cluster. Drill down into clusters lets the...
SenseBot : Summarizing Search Engine Results
Relevancy of results has been the dominant theme in my semantic search posts so far. And in this piece I will be discussing about SenseBot,...
Textonomy : Semantics Based ‘Sense Engine’
Semantics based search is the flavor of my articles and in this one I’ll be focusing on the Textonomy suite of products from Crystal Semantics,...
Exalead : A Look Into Semantic Image Search
Exalead, the search engine founded by Francois Bourdoncle (earlier involved with AltaVista) has a number of features that makes it a bit of everything. It...
Hakia’s Semantic Search : The Answer to Poor Keyword Based Relevancy
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia once said, “Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.” And while...
Kosmix.com : Search Start-up Looking for “Meaning” in Search Queries
What do Stanford grads Anand and Venky have in common with Google founders, Larry and Sergie? One, they were batch mates. And two, they are...