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.

The Future of the Search Engine

Can you imagine an Internet without Google search? Can! says, Oren Etzoni, a Washington University computer scientist. Or, at least he pictures a very different kind of search. "We could soon view today’s keyword searching with the same nostalgia and amusement reserved for bygone technologies such as electric typewriters and vinyl records," he declares in Nature. In other words, the Google of the future could or maybe should look very different than the search engine of today. But, what exactly will a more modern search look like? Etzioni and others weigh in with their ideas, providing a picture of what online searching could look like.

No more keyword search box. Eztioni urges developers to think outside the keyword search box. "One threat to progress is the keyword search box, an innovation-retarding trap that 'exerts a powerful gravitational pull,'" explains Bits Blog's Steve Lohr. But if not the search box, then what? Etzioni imagines that people would speak a question and the computer would find an answer. Of course, some alternative mining methods already exist. For example, Shazam and SoundHound, services that identify songs from their notes, are a sort of audio search. But, as Nicholas Scalice computer science blogger points out on his blog, the entity that figures out how to combine all these existing search technologies--audio search, barcode search, realtime search--will succeed. For example, someone needs to step up and take all of this technology under one roof. They need to brand themselves as a revolutionary search engine that can find exactly what you’re looking for based on your location, your friends suggestions, the image you just uploaded, the song playing from your car stereo, the barcode you just scanned, the things you already like and other non-traditional concepts.

No more link lists. Since more people use tiny screened devices it becomes harder to type in keywords and peruse a list of links, argues Etzioni. "The device of the future is the smartphone, and the 10 blue links of traditional search don’t cut it anymore." Instead, results could show up in a much more aesthetically pleasing and sensible format, argues Project Syndicate's Esther Dyson. For example, what people want (and are now getting) in product search is not a list of pages, but a set of products displayed in some meaningful fashion. They want a map of the product space, not a list. The challenge of course, is that each kind of product has a different structure and a different set of attributes.

Better results. When people search, they look for more than information they want in term of action, explains Dyson. "They aren't just looking for nouns or information; they are looking for action. Currently, Google search looks at keywords, or strings of words, to find the result. Etzioni proposes a web search engine would identify relationships between terms, which would provide more and better results. "You turn to the search site of your smart phone to find a restaurant that offers those rarities. It not only finds the restaurant, it books a table for two, sends a map on how to reach there and offers the view from your table," The Economic Times's Shelley Singh offers as an example.

REFERENCE:

Rebecca Greenfield, The Future of the Search Engine [Online], Retrieved 5th August 2011

URL: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/08/future-search-engine/40857/

Opening Search to Semantic Search Engines

    Semantic search engine take the sense of a word as a factor in its ranking algorithm or offers the users a choice as to the sense of a word or phrase. This means that when a user make a single keyword search, the search engine will offer a return list of associated alternative hyperlink related keywords or phrases.Semantic search engine is also known as Web 3.0 search. For an example, blekko.com and kngine.com is the web 3.0 search. Another two authors of our blog have introduced two of the semantic search engines.

   Semantic search engine combines proprietary technologies such as Natural Language Extraction, Artificial Intelligence algorithms and Information Integration logic to analyze the context of words and return likely matches for sense. To know more about Semantic search, please pay a visit to Here.

     Lexxe.com is also a semantic search engine, a third generation Internet search engine with advanced Natural Language Processing technology. Lexxe has decided to launch Beta version with its semantic key technology in 2011. If you interested with the Lexxe.com's technology, you may visit "How Lexxe works".

      

There is also a video to let you know how they works.

You may also try this: SWSE, then leave us your comment to tell us, how they work? Also, discuss with us is that search engine interesting?

References: 

What is semantic search, ZDNet, [Online], Retrived on 22nd October 2008.

     URL: http://www.zdnet.com/videos/whiteboard/what-is-semantic-search/241397

Lexxe, How Lexxe works, [Online], Retrived on 2011.

    URL: http://lexxe.com/technology.html