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

The Contest

Our "Amazing Contest" is officially ended and the winners had been announced last friday, check our Facebook page or blog post if you have missed out the winner list. The way we pick the participants to be the winners is based on several consideration. The participants with ONE(1) or more wrong answers will be automatically grouped into disqualified and those who never fill up all the details in the form will be ignored as well. Therefore, there are TWO(2) participants had been disqualified due to insufficient details provided and FIVE(5) of them are with the incorrect answers. But, i do believe that they had tried their best to complete the crossword puzzle for the contest, so a sincere thank for the participants. The participants with all the correct answers have FIVE(5) person in total, but there is a limit for our prizes as we provided only THREE(3) prizes for this contest. Therefore, we pick up the winners randomly from the winner list instead of pick according to date of subscription as it is unfair for those who submit later with correct answers.

Here is the photo with the 1st prize winner and the 2nd prize winner. (The 3rd prize user do not able to take photo with the organizer. )

One more time, the winner for the 1st prize will be Ms Mandy Lim and the 2nd prize will be Mrs Joe and Mrs Lai will be the winner for 3rd prize. Congratulations for all the winners.

The Web 3.0 Search Engine

     The Internet has been changing for the last ten years, but search engines have not kept up. It was because we are working on next generation of searching technologies to unlock meaning rather than indexing the document in Inverted Index fashion, Kngine the next generation search engine tries to understand the document and the search queries in order to provide customized meaningful search results.

     Kngine is Web 3.0 Search Engine (i.e. revolutionary Semantic Search Engine and Question Answer Engine) which is designed to provide customized meaningful search results, such as: Semantic Information about the keyword or concepts, Answer the user's question, List things, Discover the relation between the keyword or concepts, and links the different kind of related information together such as: Movies, Subtitles, Photos, Prices at sale stores, Users reviews, and influenced stories.

     Kngine aims to organize the human beings Systematic Knowledge and Experiences and make them accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and organize all objective data, and make it possible and easy to access. Our goal is build Web 3.0 Web Search Engine on the advances of Web Search Engine, Semantic Web, and Knowledge Representation technologies-a new form of Web Search Engine that will unleash a revolution of new possibilities. 

     Kngine started as a research project in October 2008. Over time, they succeeded in collecting , representing, and indexing a lot of human being's systematic knowledge but this only the beginning. To know more about Kngine features, please visit Kngine Tour. Kngine has both short and long term plans to dramatically expand all aspects of Kngine, qualities, broadening and deepening our data, and much more.

References 

Lexxe, the third generation Internet Search Engine with advances Natural Language Processing Technology, Retrieved on Year 2005

URL: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-7-semantic-search-engines-alternative-google-search/

Poll Result Analysis (Week 7)

This week poll voting is related to the Green Search Engines. I shared some information about Green Search Engines and encouraged you guys to use this Green Search Engines, since you may save the Earth by using this type of search engines.

In the other hand, there are totally six voters participate in this survey. The poll result for week 7 is 50% of users are using the Blackle.com which is 3 voters. The following is Ecorsia.org which get 2 votes and staying 33.33% out of 100%. The GreenMaven.com, it unable to save energy and is not a Green Search Engine, but it help to search all the green web pages. There is 16.67% and only get 1 vote for it. 

The others three Green Search Engines which are Earthle.com, GreenTerrior.org, Ecocho.com, Eco-Find.com, do not get any vote.

This image is showing the result of "Which Green Search Engine than You are using"? 

After we doing this survey on "Which Green Search Engine are You using"? We found that most of the users are using Blackle.com. Unfortunately, there is only SIX (6) voters vote on this poll voting. That mean most of the users are not using the Green Search Engine, and maybe they haven't realize what is actually a Green Search Engine. If you get to know more about Green Search Engine, you may pay a visit to one of our blog post. 

The "Amazing Contest" Winners is them!!!!

     The Contest have been hold for ten days. Luckily we get five(5) individuals participants in this Contest. As promise, we are going to announce the winners by today. Before that, I am glad to thanks to those who participate in our Contest and they(winners) are willing to take photo with us. 

     The answer of the CROSSWORD PUZZLE are prepared by us and now to announce the answers as below:-

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3.     DOGPILE—This search engine may search from multiple search engines

4.     BAIDU—The most popular search engine in China

7.     GOOGLE—The logo of this search engine included three(3) colours

9.     SOGOU—Search engine in China

10.   YAHOO—Jerry Yang & David Filo are the founders of this search engine

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1.     YOUTUBE—A popular multimedia search engine to search video files

2.     BING—"Microsoft"

4.     BLEKKO—"Slash Tag"

5.     PANGUSO—The China government-apprd search engine

6.     DUCKDUCKGO—New Search engine with the duck logo

8.     QYO—The special search engine work similiar with Social Networks Sites

     Nervous??? Want to know who is the winners now? Haha!!! Lets me count down, 5...4...3...2...1...the *1st Prize* winner is (Miss Mandy Lim). She got the First Prize which is an 8GB Kingston thumb-drive worth RM59.90. CONGRATULATIONS!!! We have contacted her and prepared to pass the prize to her as soon as possible. Also, she was the FIRST participate in our Contest, so that she will get the Mystery prize too. The *second prize(2nd)* winner is (Mr. Joe Chung). He is the one contact with us by mail. He asked us some information and details about the Contest. He will get the RAPOO optical wireless mouse. And the following is (Mrs.Lai), she win the *Third Prize (3rd)* which is earphone.

     Lastly, I would like to thank again to all the participants and those who concern on our blog, Facebook page and Twitter page. 

You are encouraged to use the Green Search Engines.

    
      Green Search Engines? Have yo heard this type of new search engines? Let me introduce to you, what is Green Search Engines. Green Search Engine is a type of search engine that reuse usage of electricity for each search make by users. It was a smart idea from somebody else to save the earth. You are allowed to do charity every single day. Switch and use the Green Search Engine now. There are so many Green Search Engines. 


     Blackle.com is an example of Green Search Engine. It takes everyone's favourite search engine, Google.com and turns off the lights. By using a black background, Blackle.com saves energy since monitors require more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen. How much energy is saved? Blackle.com references a blog post that claims that a black Google.com would save 750 Megawatt-hours per year. Blackle.com is a popular Green Search Engine.
     
     Beside Blackle.com, there are also anothers Green Search Engine which called Ecosia.org. Ecosia.org  is a green search engine which donates at least 80% of its advertising revenue to a rainforest protection program run by the WWF. Each search at Ecosia.org contributes to the protection of the rainforests. 


     Eco-Find.com is another green search engine using black background same with the blackle.com. This green search engine is very convenience, why I said so? It is because it also search via Google.com and search in difference categories. Are you willing to try this green search engine? 
     
     Earthle.com, "Save Energy, Save The Earth" is their slogan. Also, they search through Google.com. Someone said, "because apparently, we can't have enough darkness engines", Earthle.com also conserves energy.


     Gigablast.com serving close to ten millions query per day, mostly through other websites. Gigablast.com is the leading clean-energy search engine. 90% of its power usage comes from wind energy. Gigablast.com also makes it easy to perform users query on the coal-based search engine by clicking links below the search results. So, you are encouraged much to try this green search engine. Even though, this green search engine not using the black background but it use wind energy. For you information, It was a natural resources.


     Gooef.com was created by Max from Keetsa.com to make life easier for finding Eco-Friendly and Green related stuff on the web. Gooef.com brings you only the best of Eco-Friendly and Green searches on the web, powered by Google custom search. As normal green search engine, their background is of course black in colour. It will conserve energy per time users use this sites. 


     In the other hand, GreenMaven.com is a search engine designed to specifically search the "green web." Hence, it actually is not a green search engine. They focus on helping us to find the best green, conscious, and sustainable web sites. There is also a GreenMaven.com plugin to make those searches even easier. Actually, Ecosia.org has this feature too.



     Here is an image (gif) to show several green search engines. Just have a look and try to use them. 

 Here is a slideshow to introduce the popular Green Search Engines.

    I believe that most of you are using Google.com as your default search engine. Unless, the other common search engines such as Yahoo.com or Bing.com. Our earth was sick, save our Earth by just doing this simply action. Start to use the Green Search Engines now, most of them are searching through Google.com too. The different between just the colour of background which is black in colour.


REFERENCE: 
Sarah Perez, 15 of the Best Green Search Engines, Read Write Web, [docx.Online], Retrieved on 22nd April 2008.
     URL: http://www.readwriteweb.com/
Ecoist, 27 Great Green and Eco-Friendly Search Engines, Web Ecoist, [JPEG.Online], Retrieved on (-)
      URL : http://webecoist.com/

Poll Analysis Result (Week6)

We did a poll voting that related to our topic as usual last week. The poll voting this week is regarding to "Beside Google.com, there are some "Powerful" search engines. Which you had try to use before?"

We had did a simple analysis with a pie chart based on the previous votes result. The pie chart has proven that majority of the voters which is 7 voters out of 14 voters had tried out dogpile.com which is a search engine that search from multiple search engines. There are 5 voters chose baidu.com and 1 vote for dmoz.org and offline search engine. It seems that insta.found is not as well known as other search engines as there is no any voter tried it yet.

Do you agree with the poll analysis result we made based on the answer by voters? If not, kindly drop a comment in this post for further discussion on search engines. Let us know if you had tried out what insta.found search engine is all about!

Poll Result Analysis (Week 5)

     The title of the poll analysis in the previous week is "Will you take part in the coming soon contest?" We had created a pie chart for the vote result.

     In this week, we had created a contest for people to participate and win the prizes. There are "GRAND PRIZES" waiting for you to bring back. They are 8 GB pen-drive, wireless optical mouse, and earphone. These "GRAND PRIZES" are really awesome for who is interested take part in the contest. You just only need to do the simple steps that you will have a change to win the "GRAND PRIZES".

     It had only 9 voters joined themselves for answer the poll analysis question. That means the most people are interested to participate the contest because it had 7 voters out to 9 voters choose the answer "Sure, I am happy to hear this news". It had only 2 voters choose the answer "Maybe", that means the 2 voters are still considering to participate. Besides, there didn't have any voters choose the last answer "No, I am very busy"

      In conclusion, I feel very happy because most people are really to participate the contest. It is the chance for you to improve your knowledge and information of search engine. Furthermore, crossword puzzle is the best way for learning knowledge. I hope in the following days will increase the participants for take part in the contest.

CONTEST , LET START AND WIN A PRIZE.

We are the authors of K&L New Search. I am Rex, I am Michelle, I am Wei Lun. We are here to tell you a good news. We are organizing a CONTEST in order for people to realize the existence of our blog. There are *Grand Prizes* waiting for you to bring them back. They are 8GB pen-drive, wireless optical mouse, and earphone. Are you interesting with those prizes? Let join our CONTEST now. Just do the simple steps the you got a chance to win *Grand prizes*. Lastly, we are glad to share and bring out this good news. So, welcome to join our contest. Thank you for your participation.


(This video is to tell you we are organizing a CONTEST, and we hope to get more participants, and you may send us your answer as soon as possible before the due date. Have you take part in this CONTEST? Grand prizes are waiting for you. )


This week is the first week of the Contest. Lets start from some QUIZ. The followings are the Questions.


Have you download the form for registration? If yet, Please visit to our Facebook page or download the Contest form Here. (Kindly to inform, Please read the Rules and the Regulations) 

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3.This search engine may search from multiple search engines
4.The most popular search engine in China
7.The logo of this search engine included three(3)
colours
9.Search engine in China
10. Jerry Yang & David Filo are the founders of this search engine

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1.A popular multimedia search engine to search video files
2."Microsoft"
4."Slash Tag"
5.The China government-apprd search engine
6.New Search engine with the duck logo
8.The special search engine work similiar with Social Networks Sites
[Image] The crossword Puzzle(Insert or answers with editing this image)

You may also send the answers to us by mail.
EXAMPLE: XXX(Your name)
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Google AdWords is here!

Review On Google AdWords

After quietly testing in Brazil, Spanish-speaking Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, Google will gives more weight to landing page quality by rolling out a new algorithm globally when it comes to AdWords Quality Score. This means ads with landing pages that Google deems to be most relevant to the query will be able to rank higher for lower cost-per-click bids.

Landing page quality has long been a factor in Google AdWords. If an advertiser’s landing page was particularly terrible or misleading, advertisers could have their ads rejected or their accounts suspended or revoked. It is depending on how bad the policy violation was.

Relevance is what we always ask our advertisers to focus on by choosing a landing page or site experience that is both relevant to the keywords that you’re targeting and also a good experience for end users,” said Alferness. “This is just continuing to sort of push on those best practices. I gives us the ability to really reward those advertisers that have been doing this, whose landing pages really are some of the best in our systems.” For your information, the change will roll out in the next week or two. Advertisers may see some variations in ad position and keyword Quality Score at first, but things should settle down within a couple of weeks, according to Google. So, stay tune! If you are curious and feel free to try out Google AdWords, kindly visit here to test it out.

REFERENCES

Barry Schwartz, Google AdWords With Rating & Reviews[Online], Retrieved 22nd Apr 2010

URL: http://searchengineland.com/google-adwords-ratings-40519

Pamela Parker, Google Tweaks AdWords To Give Landing Page Quality More Weight[Online], Retrieved 3rd Oct 2011

URL: http://searchengineland.com/google-tweaks-adwords-to-give-landing-page-quality-more-weight-95488

*The Amazing Contest*

     We are currently having a contest in our Facebook page and the contest is applicable with some rules and regulations. In order to join yourself in the contest, you must first read through all the rules and regulations and make sure that you have fulfilled all the conditions. For your information, the question of the contest will be posted and asked on 10th Oct 2011 at our Facebook page and the question will be either a question related to search engines or a crossword puzzle. The duration of the contest is from 10th Oct 2011 until 20th Oct 2011, 12am sharp.

     A contest will always have some prizes. So, the prizes we have prepared for the contest including a 8GB Kingston Pendrive as 1st prize, following with a Rapoo wireless optical mouse as 2nd prize and an earphones as 3rd prize. Besides, there is a form prepared for participant to submit in order to join the contest. Step-by-step guide is provided to download the particular form. In conclusion, the contest will be officially started on 10th Oct 2011, Monday. Stay tune on our Facebook page!

     For any enquiries about the contest or you are not sure with some rules and regulations, feel free to email us at one of the following email address: michellekwan92@hotmail.com, weilun9696@yahoo.com, weilun810@gmail.com

Open Search Engine Platform

     Last week, I have researched a lot about the next generation of search engines, and in this post I will relate to you guys my own definition about 3rd generation of search engines.

     As we know, the 1st generation search engines are recognized as indexing search engines or directories. Users can use keywords, but that is really 'searching', no other development to decide the relevance of data. Directory is a really good idea and is invented by portal giant, Yahoo. In this generation, at lease users can find something from a huge set of data.

A look inside the Google's London store


     The 2nd generation which is the current generation is known as the core technology and also a great example would be Google's powerful PageRank. PageRank is actually a set of formulas and equations which determines the relevance and reliability of every webpage for every keyword. Users can find the most relevant and reliable data almost instantly. Furthermore, Google is famous for its indexing engine because we can search over 1 billion webpages in less than 0.1second.

     In the 3rd generation of search engines, machines will collect our searches and analyze them. For example, we will tell the search engine what we click, how long we stay and how many pages we view. These actions will be able to be understood by the 3rd generation search engines and they will use them to improve the result for the next user who wants to find answer to similar term.

     Currently, Snap.com is one of the first 3rd generation search engines out there. It is  project developed by idealab. Snap.com uses the searches made by users (besides the essential function of a typical search engine) there is also a tracker inside it and this might secret recipe of 3rd generation search engines.

     Finally, can you still remember we told you about Google Panda updated version 2.5? This search engine is going to arrive this week. It is not rumor; it was confirmed by Search Engines Land (http://searchengineland.com/) Would you try the differences between the previous version and the update version? If you have any question or suggestion, you can comment it and let us do some improvement for you.      

REFERENCES

Zhou Tong, Professional Web Developer (PHP, Ruby on Rails and MySQL), website designer (XHTML/CSS), Internet analyze and a professional tech blogger, Retrieved 25 May 2009

URL: http://www.techxav.com/2009/05/25/the-next-generation-of-search-engines-open-search-engine-platform/ 

Poll Result Analysis (Week 4)

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 Firstly, I would like to thank for their cooperation and paying their attention on our blog. The pie chart above is showing comments of voters, how they feel with our blog. "Are you feel interesting with our blog"? I ask visitor's opinion and looking for their feedback in the previous week. Thankfully there are totally 10 voters participate to this vote activity.

     We get 40% out of 100%  for the "Yes. It is a nice blog". They satisfied with our blog design. There is also 30% of visitors agree with our blog bring the true information. 10% which is also a voter vote on "Doesn't matter, I just visited for fun". A voter agree with "Yes. It is the most interesting blog I visited". Unfortunately, we get 10% for the dissatisfied of the blog. The voter said:" The blog is ugly and not interesting. I will respect to his own opinion and do more to improve our blog. 

  "THANKS FOR YOU PARTICIPATION, WE WILL ALWAYS APPRECIATE" 

   

     However, I am still feel happy and glad to get 70% of voters which is satisfied with our blog. I am here to thank for their support and keep paying attention to our blog. We will try our best to bring out the true and interesting information by the following weeks. Lastly, there is a new question for the next voting,  give us yours opinion and as possible leave yours comments to us.

The Panguso Search Engine, by China Government!

A prominent news agency in China, Xinhua has launched Panguso, an Internet search site that will deliver a state-certified version of the Internet. The government-apprd search engine will be operated in tandem with state-owned phone carrier, China Mobile Ltd. which is the world's largest phone carrier and telecommunications network.

The new search engine will take advantage of Xinhua's capacity in order to collect information and to provide more accurate or relevant search results. One of the features is that Panguso utilizes China Mobile's position in the cellphone market to enable users to send search results from computers to smartphones using SMS.



"We would like to fully exploit the advantages of Xinhua as an official agency having a large amount of news and information and that of China Mobile in terms of technology, advanced operation principles and strong infrastructure," said Li Congjun, president of Xinhua News Agency.

The venture gives China's ruling party a new tool in order for them to try to control what the public sees online. Beijing highly promotes Web use for business as well as education and it tries to block materials deemed to be subversive and obscene. Panguso also aims to provide only high quality and healthy information for China netizens by curbing the spread of illegal information such as violence and pornography.

According to Li, who is confident that the Panguso search engine can grab for a significant share from the massive 457 million Internet users base in China. Also, it won't be too hard for Panguso to catch up Google search engine which holds only 23% in the market. With relentless supports from the China government, there is surely some advantages for Panguso.

Do you feel strange on Panguso Search Engine? Try it out at http://www.panguso.com/ and give us a feedback on:-

• Advantages and disadvantages of Panguso search engine.
• What shows Panguso is unique and special from other search engines.
• Lastly, tell us what Panguso is lacking!

REFERENCES

Francis Tan, Panguso: China's new government-run search engine, TNW Asia [Online], Retrieved 23rd February 2011

URL: http://thenextweb.com/asia/2011/02/23/panguso-chinas-new-government-run-search-engine/

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Third Poll Result Analysis

     The title of the poll analysis in the previous week is " You usually use search engine for what purpose?" We had created a pie chart for the vote result.

     It had only 8 voters joined themselves for answer the question. That means the most users are usually use search engine for Academic and to do the research for assignment. It have 6 voters out to 8 voters choose this answer and the second answer is entertainment for search "stars" images, information, and video. It have only 2 voters choose this answer. The 0% votes is mean voters didn't use any search engine.

     In conclusion, most of the users are using search engine for academic and to research for assignment. The plenty of the users are using search engine is for entertainment and to search "star" images, information and video. Therefore, using a search engine for research an assignment is a benefit for all the users.