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...
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 is a meta search engine that presents information from multiple engines in a neat tabbed format. Its more of a portal to perform extensive...
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...
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...
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, founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco has come out with its product Swicki, a customizable search portal and widget. Eurekster is a...
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...
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...
The Munich based company, Proximic has been the result of 5 years of research into a search methodology that is a set apart from the...
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...
Continuous search is an area that is about automating search into particular areas to receive continuously updated information as and when content gets added to...
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.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...
Trexy is a web search tool that adds a social connotation to the science of searching. Trexy lets users follow search trails of users over...
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, the search engine has an interesting history. Matt Wells wrote the code for GigaBlast from scratch in C++ after quitting InfoSeek. Thus for a...
Evolving algorithms, AI and computational linguistics, those are the credentials of Rapid Intelligence, the firm that provides us the search tool FactBites. The search engine...
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, the AI powered search engine has not received much popularity. The engine touts a powerful AI based algorithm that uses techniques that go beyond...
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...
While it is obvious that Search 1.0 was about the user mining into results returned by search engines, the need for moving to a higher...
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, the natural language processing search engine also adds the power of clustering to provide results with subset cluster. Drill down into clusters lets the...
Backed by the experience of leading linguistic experts and technology that takes into consideration, ontology, morphology and synonymy, CognitionSearch, the semantic engine from Cognition technologies...
Xerox’s FactSpotter isn’t a mainstream search tool that will debut as a challenge to present day search engines. But the features packed into it may...
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,...
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, the search engine founded by Francois Bourdoncle (earlier involved with AltaVista) has a number of features that makes it a bit of everything. It...
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...