Previously here on Search Engine Journal, I covered various Semantic Search Engines which have erupted on the scene as alternatives to Google and Microsoft /...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Google may have its advantages over Microsoft when it comes to online advertising. But over to mapping services and we can see that both Google...
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...
Nathan Enns started working on FyberSearch at the age of 19. Having developed the engine from scratch, Nathan has been following the search space for...
Search Canyon deploys technology that helps disambiguate search queries, essentially assisting the user to dig deeper into results, suggesting links that makes a better match...
Algorithms, natural language processing, artificial intelligence – the list is endless in the quest for the perfect technique to make computers do what humans are...
Few days back there was an article at SEJ on Relona, a search technology start-up which used unique technology to add more relevance to results...
David Kirkpatrick, senior editor at Fortune Magazine has written a great article summarizing some technology statistics that have come out as result of the 2008...
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...
Search, as the work horse of the internet, has delivered much. Though search as a problem is far from solved, there are many advantages that...
Many have pointed out that the success of Google is as much its relevance algorithm as its simple clutter free approach to the user interface....
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...
With the rapid rise in video and audio content online, there is an immediate need for search technologies that can catalog and search media content...
Recently Bill Slawski from SEO By the Sea wrote on a patent application filed by Yahoo on Techniques for Searching future events. It brings forth...
The founders of this social-networking, social bookmarking site with people powered categorization of content hoped to provide a topic centric approach rather than a people...
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 ( pronounced “Circles”) is a complete Social Search engine founded by John Hopkins University graduate Chris Seline. The site is focussed on creation of...
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...
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...
The Web experienced a roller-coaster ride in 2007 with Social Networking emerging as the happening area. More and more user activity moving to the clouds...
If the title of the post appeared too technical, then my apologies. I wanted to convey in a nutshell that FuzzFind, the meta-social-search mashup combines...
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...
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...