Hakiaâs Semantic Search : The Answer to Poor Keyword Based Relevancy
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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia once said, &#8220;Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.&#8221; And while he&#8217;s dabbling with the concept of an open-source search engine, Dr. Riza C Berkan of Hakia.com believes the fix is in the semantics.  The CEO and founder of the &#8220;meanings&#8221; [...]
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Revamped search engine allows users to store and share results.
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MSN Search Engine Uses Basis Technology for Natural Language Processing  Basis Technology announced this week that Microsoft Corp. has chosen the Rosette Linguistics Platform to support Web searches in its new MSN search engine. The companies have entered into a multi-year agreement in which Microsoft has the option to utilize all ...
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Blog: A first look at Searchles: a new web app that seeks to combine social networking with web search functionalities.
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A new open-source search engine lets users vote on results.
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Search patterns provide a surprising window into the minds of buyers and sellers in the current unsettled market
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IBM has created a free semantic e-mail search engine aimed at users of the company&#39;s Lotus Notes software and Microsoft Outlook.The engine, called IOPES (IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search), allows users to search their mail based on concepts, such as dates and phone numbers, according to IBM. It also allows searchers to define their own concepts.Once the software is installed, it indexes and analyzes the user&#39;s e-mail store. Searches are conducted through a browser interface that delivers results through a stripped-down, Google-like interface.Users can enter simple keyword-based queries or ones using basic natural language constructions. For example, to find e-mails from a friend named Mark Smith, you could simply enter &quot;from Mark Smith.&quot;But to find only the e-mails Smith sent in a certain month, a query might be constructed as &quot;Mark from January 2007.&quot; You could find his phone number by typing &quot;Smith&#39;s phone number.&quot;The results don&#39;t show a list of e-mail headers or display the messages in full. Instead, the software extracts the passage it believes contains the right answer, and highlights what it deems to be the specific information requested, such as a phone number.Users can also search for attachments with search results providing direct links to the documents in question.E-mail is a good target for developing a semantic search engine because users frequently repeat certain phrasings and words and repeatedly exchange the same type of information. &quot;There is a fairly large number of things that are so e-mail specific,&quot; said Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, the project&#39;s technical lead.Researchers in a number of IBM labs worked on the project for the past year and a half, according to Vaithyanathan. The product has been quietly available on the company&#39;s alphaWorks site for a couple of months, but only now is IBM attempting to drive widespread adoption, according to a spokeswoman.&quot;To be able to solve all these problems in some meaningful way, we want some feedback,&quot; Vaithyanathan said.IBM also released the tool internally to its employees and said it has received mostly positive responses.
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Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Local Search Marketing: A Huge Untapped Market - Research: Do Keywords In URL Influence Your Rank? - Make All Your Keywords Plural? - How Do PPC Campaigns And SEO Compliment Each Other - World Without Search Engines - Does Adwords Have a Limit On the Number of Ads? - New AdWords Classifications Coming
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As the major players in Web search duke it out, a growing number of startups are embracing a different way of retrieving and sorting search results.
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The Power Of The "Niche" - Choosing Keywords People Actually Use  Keywords and keyphrases are the search words and terms Internet surfers use to find the products, services or information they are looking for.  Choosing the right keywords and phrases for your search engine optimization (SEO) program is critical to its success. ...
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By Ellen Whyte  WHEN you're struggling to find science homework answers, entering search criteria into large, general-purpose search services such as Google and Yahoo can be frustrating, especially if your keyword has various meanings.
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The search site still lacks the right stuff.
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Which search engines do searchers prefer and why? How do users use search engines to find the information they want? And how do searchers perceive paid versus free listings? New research offers insights into the workings of the searcher's mind.
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Desktop search can help you sort through your computer's contents
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People search that connects users to chat to find answers.
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Ask.com enhances its search engine offerings.
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A new search engine, slated to be completed by the end of 2007, uses natural language techniques to better interpret the meaning of the information a user is seeking, and thus provide more relevant results.