Sameas. Engine" Interesting. Powerset. Bing - A better way to search from Microsoft. Lavva: A New Attempt at "Social Search" After seeing how hard it is to combat the goliath that is Google when it comes to search, you almost have to wonder about anyone launching an alternative search engine these days. Are they crazy? Overly ambitious? Probably a little of both. The latest attempt to snag a little search market share comes from Lavva, a company with big ideas about social search. Instead of retrieving sites based on a search algorithm like Google does, Lavva bases its search results on what people say are the top results. According to the company, this makes search "100% democratic.
" The "Social Algorithm" In theory, the idealism which infuses Lavva sounds like a good idea. Their idea just misses the mark, unfortunately. Do You Want to Chat about the News in Your Search Engine? Another one of Lavva's hair-brained schemes is their "News Goes Social" page. While this in and of itself isn't entirely crazy (or entirely useful for that matter), how they want you to interact with the content sort of is. PopGist: Yahoo Search Results in Context - ReadWriteWeb. In the past, we have written extensively about the potential of BOSS, Yahoo's open search web services platform. BOSS is an open API that lets developers access and manipulate Yahoo's search results. A wide range of companies, including Hakia and Me.dium, are currently using it to power their own search engines. One of the more interesting applications of BOSS we have come across lately is PopGist.
PopGist blends search results with Techmeme-like discussion sections that list related stories from other sites. PopGist's developer, Matthew Chen, is also the co-founder of Megite, a once popular memetracker that surely gave Matthew the inspiration for this project. Not Pretty - But it Works PopGist is not much to look at. If you search for Google Chrome, for example, PopGist will return reviews from most major blogs as well. Services like PopGist tend to be prone to being overrun by spam, but surprisingly, PopGist's results always came back very clean.
Semantic Web Search Engine Roundup - Blog - Semantic Focus. Unlike traditional search engines, which crawl the Web gathering Web pages, Semantic Web search engines index RDF data stored on the Web and provide an interface to search through the crawled data. Below is a list of Semantic Web search engines that are currently under development.
Semantic Web Search Engine (SWSE) SWSE is a search engine for the RDF Web on the Web, and provides the equivalent services a search engine currently provides for the HTML Web. The system explores and indexes the Semantic Web and provides an easy-to-use interface through which users can find the information they are looking for. Because of the inherent semantics of RDF and other Semantic Web languages, the search and information retrieval capabilities of SWSE are potentially much more powerful than those of current search engines. Sindice Sindice is a lookup index for Semantic Web documents built on data intensive cluster computing techniques. Watson Yahoo! Microsearch is Yahoo!
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