Week 10 Poll Analyze

The previous week I had ask a question about the search engine. "Is chacha.com a Human-assisted search engine?". There are totally 4 voters participate in this poll voting. 3 of the voters answer "Yes" and 1 voter answer "No". The correct answer is "Yes". For your information, chacha.com is a Human-assisted search engine.

Also, I am announcing about this week should be the last week of updating the blog posting and poll analyze post. So far, we appreciate all of the participants and the blog readers. Thank you for your participation.

The New Search Engine"Former Googleers Unveil Cuil"

     A start-up led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to beat the Internet search leader in size, but faces an ascending battle changing Web surfing habits. Cuil company is offering a new search service at http://www.cuil.pt/ that the company claims can index, faster and more cheaply, a far larger portion of the Web than Google, which boasts the larger online index.

     The would be Google rival says its service goes beyond prevailing search techniques that focus on Web links and audience traffic patterns and instead analyzes the context of each page and the concepts behind each user search request. "Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index mush more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user," Tom Costello, Cuil co-founder and chief executive, said in a statement.

     Danny Sullivan, a Web search analyst and editor in chief of Search Engine Land, said Cuil can try exploit complaints consumers may have with Google namely, that it tries to do too much, that its results favor already popular sites, and that it leans heavily on certain authoritative sites such as Wikipedia. "The time may be right for a challenger," Sullivan says, but adds quickly:" Competing with Google is still a very daunting task, as Microsoft will tell you." Microsoft Corp, the No.3 U.S.player in Web has been seeking in vain, so far, to join forces with No.2 Yahoo Inc to battle Google.

    In conclusion, click HERE to know more information of the Cuil search engine. If you have any question or suggestion, you can comment in the comment box therefore we can do some improvement for you. Lastly, i suggest all the users try to use the newest search engine and test the new function of the search engine.

REFERENCES 

Eric Auchard, Former Googleers Unveil Cuil, the new search engine, Retrieved on July28,2008

URL:http://uk.reuters.com/article/2008/07/28/us-internet-search-idUKN2741939220080728

     

Poll Result Analysis (Week 9)

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    We discussed about what kind of search engine that semantic search engine actually is. Semantic search engine is also known as Web 3.0 search engine, it takes sense of a word as a factor in its ranking algorithm or offers user a choice as to the sense of a word of phrase. Some of the semantic search engines such as lexxe.com, blekko.com and kngine.com, feel free to try it out to know the differences between Web 2.0 search engine and Web 3.0 search engine clearly.

    There are total of 8 voters had participated in the poll voting this week. There are 5 of them obtain the correct answer and 3 voters guess wrongly with Web 2.0 search engine which is an era of search engine from years 2004. For example, google.com, yahoo.com, bing.com and baidu.com is some of the popular Web 2.0 search engine and I believe that you had tried it out before.

   Therefore, if you have something not sure about the search engine or there is something goes wrong in the post in term of information, please do not hesitate to let us know!

How to search in easier way and more specific?

     As the blog post title, "How to search in easier way and more specific?" To search more specific, there are a few ways to do that. Beside choosing the suitable search engine, you are encouraged to use the search logic or customize the search options during the searching. For example, use the proper Boolean operators such as:-

i. ) AND (&&)

ii.) OR ( || )

iii.) "   "

iv.) NOT 

     Using the specific search engine. If you are looking for the audio files, you may use FindSounds.com or Free-Loops.com. Unlike some of the internet users, they just too depend on google.com. There are also specialty searches to search RSS feeds, podcast, library materials and so on. If you are getting to know more detail of "How to Choose a Search Tools", you may visit this link.

     In the other hand, to get the specific results, users may try the Human-assisted search engine. This type of search engine running the Q&A system. Once they understand what users are looking for, then they will find the specific results and send it back to the search results. Chacha.com is an example of Human-assisted search engine. Scour.com is also a Human-assisted search engine, but it need users to pay per-click. It mean users are needed to pay for the searching fees.

     Try this specific search engine, zanran.com/q/. They help to search the data & statistics such as graphs, charts and tables. It enable users to customize four of the search options. 

       Again, I am glad to share this information to all my blog readers. So, are you going to try chacha.com, scour.com, and zanran.com/q/ ?


REFERENCES:
1.) Laura B.Cohen, How to Choose a Search Tools, Internet Tutorials, [Online], Retrieved on 1st Nov 2011.
          URL:http://www.internettutorials.net/choose.asp
2.) Ellen Keohane, ABCSearch launches human-assisted search engine Scour.com, [Online], Retrieved on           15th July 2008.
          URL: http://www.dmnews.com/abcsearch-launches-human-assisted-search-engine-scourcom/article/112460/

Poll Result Analysis (Week 8)

     The title of the poll analysis in the previous week is "Is Google.com the most useful search engine?"The vote result was showed on the pie chart. The most voters vote the answer is agree but not the most. There are 3 out of 8 voters vote this answer. That mean have a lot of users agree Google.com is very but no the most because Google.com is not the best search engine in the world.

     Besides, have 2 voters has choose the answer Yes, It may search everything what they need. Actually, Google.com can search everything what we need. This is the benefit for Google.com. Another 2 voters has choose the answer No, It always unable to search what I want. Google.com is not unable to search what we want because Google.com is just show the current most famous news in first two pages, the others information maybe is in other pages, so we can't say Google.com is unable to search what we need. Has i voter choose the last answer I will prefer to use dogpile.com more than Google.com. Dogpile.com is also a famous search engine in the world.

     In conclusion, I suggest all the users to user the blekko.com. Blekko.com is a Semantic search engine and also a Web 3.0 search engine. In the future, many users certain use blekko.com to search everything what they need and information. Do you agree the vote result in this poll analysis?If have any question or suggestion can just comment in the comment box or email to us.