4 Search Engines That Use Different Approaches to Achieve Relevancy
Previously here on Search Engine Journal, I covered various Semantic Search Engines which have erupted on the scene as alternatives to Google and Microsoft /...
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,...
Viewzi : Different Ways to View Your Search
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...
Silobreaker : News search with Thorough Aggregation
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...
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...
CloudTuner : Start-up Takes Fresh Look at Query Refinement
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 : Comprehensive Job Search Engine
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...
ManageQ: Cool Interface to Manage Your Search
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 & Microsoft Are Battling It Out At The Mapping Front
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 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...
Q&A With Nathan Enns, CEO at FyberSearch
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...
Mark Cramer, CEO of SurfCanyon on Search & Importance of User Feedback
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...
GGoal : Searchers Define their Search
Algorithms, natural language processing, artificial intelligence – the list is endless in the quest for the perfect technique to make computers do what humans are...
Relona CTO, Kumar Ramanathan on Relona, Relevancy and Search
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...
United States Far Behind in Mobile Usage and Technology
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...
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...
Mobile Search : World of Opportunity
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...
Searchme : A Refreshing Search Interface
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 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...
Pluggd : Keyword Matching Within Videos
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...
Massive Computational Resources, Leveraging Time and Social Aspects as Factors in Search
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...
CrowdFound : Social Discovery Engine
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 : 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...
Can Semantic Search Ensure a More Secure Web?
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...
FuzzFind : Calibrating Social and Algorithmic Search
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...
Wikia Search : The Testbed for a Google Mock-up
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...
Otavo : The Intention Search Engine
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...