tag:,2009:/1/tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2664- 2009-11-23T19:52:44Z Comments for What is a Search Engine - Now and Future Movable Type 4.23-en tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2664 2007-07-30T22:39:39Z 2007-12-16T23:07:45Z What is a Search Engine - Now and Future Read/WriteWeb network blog AltSearchEngines has launched a fascinating series today. It's a 3-part series attempting to define what is a search engine. While it's focused on 2007, the series will also address what a search engine might look like in the future. The first part, entitled What is a Search Engine?, is written by Nitin... Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com Read/WriteWeb network blog AltSearchEngines has launched a fascinating series today. It's a 3-part series attempting to define what is a search engine. While it's focused on 2007, the series will also address what a search engine might look like in the future. The first part, entitled What is a Search Engine?, is written by Nitin Karandikar. Part II is entitled What is Not a Search Engine? by Kaila Colbin and will be published tomorrow on ASE. The trilogy will be complete with Charles Knight's Part III: What is an Alternative Search Engine? on Wednesday.

Any of you who have followed closely Charles Knight's Top 100 Alternative Search Engines List will enjoy this series.

]]> Here is Nitin's list of essential search engine features for the future:

  • Personalization (but without storing personal info )
  • Social Input / Wisdom-of-Crowds (which has its pitfalls )
  • Semantic Processing: of both, the query AND the content (will this let the Search Engine find Answers that we never knew we had?)
  • Parametric Input: including freshness, source and domain-specific
  • Rich content types: audio, video, images, news, blogs, ‚Ķ
  • UI enhancements: better visualization of results
  • Findability support: notifications of interest, a database of intentions
  • Follow-up: results clustering and drill-down
  • Repeat queries (as Greg Linden points out )
  • Trusted sources: e.g. a slider to select the level of trust, from high to low

Check out the full article and leave a comment on AltSearchEngines about what you think a search engine is - and what it'll be in the future.

]]> tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2664-comment:21577 Comment from Yakov on 2007-07-30 Yakov http://www.quintura.com I will add that a search engine has to have its own index of the Web or build it.

]]> 2007-07-31T06:29:15Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2664-comment:21578 Comment from Phill Midwinter on 2007-07-31 Phill Midwinter http://www.surrch.com It's a load of tosh, honestly. I've posted a full length comment on the article itself. So much rage that people can write that much crud and get it posted!

]]> 2007-07-31T08:52:40Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2664-comment:21579 Comment from political forum on 2007-07-31 political forum http://www.politicsforumpoliticalworld.com/ Search engines are generally based around Google's algorithm for what a search engine is. There are three big search engines (G, Yahoo and MSN). I think that the latter two are both emulating Google. Google takes into account a number of different factors for determining placement of a site including domain age, site name, and backlinks to decide the placement of a site in the index. I think the question should be: is there anything coming out that will be different from this that many people will use?

- ted

]]> 2007-07-31T09:23:33Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2664-comment:21580 Comment from ted on 2007-07-31 ted http://www.politicsforumpoliticalworld.com/ I think that one of the problems for many sites is that they have a lot of difficulty coming up in the SERP's and without traffic, your site is going to be hard to maintain.


- ted
my political forum

]]> 2007-07-31T09:26:13Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2664-comment:21581 Comment from Peter on 2007-07-31 Peter http://www.antiventurecapital.com Speaking of Google, perhaps it's time to admit that the emperor is buck naked? Google is no longer an asset to small business. It's digressed into a black box designed to extract as much money as possible from small business while giving back as little value as possible. This piece explains why Adwords is something to be skeptical about: "Why Google Adwords is Not Helpful to Small Business" http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/07/a-fable-doing-b.html

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