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The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, March
RWW Editor's Note: This is the latest installment of The Top 100, a popular monthly feature from our AltSearchEngines blog. The list includes the best People search engines, Job, Health, Media, Local, Social, Semantic, Image, and many more 'verticals'. ASE editor Charles Knight explains below how he compiles the monthly list. He also selected a 'Search Engine of the Month'. So check out the list and write-up below to get a sense of the hottest new products in search. [end of Ed note]
The Future of Search: Peter Morville Defines, Shows Examples
I'm at the Webstock conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Currently speaking is Peter Morville, whose topic is "Ambient Findability and the Future of Search". Peter Morville was co-author of the famous 'polar bear' book about Information Architecture - which was like a bible to many of us who started our careers as webmasters or designers.
The crux of Morville's presentation was that we're "at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet", but "the user experience is out of control, and findability is the real story."
AltSearchEngines Nominated for 3 Search Blog Awards
Our network blog AltSearchEngines has been nominated for 3 Search Blog Awards at Search Engine Journal. ASE is up for:
Best Search Engine Research Blog
Breakout Blog of 2007
Most Giving Search Blogger (for editor Charles Knight)
Hakia Adds Social Networking - But Does Search Need Social Networking Features?
Semantic search engine Hakia has just released a new social networking feature, called Meet Others (MO). The basic idea is to "meet others" who asked the same query. This is something I've never seen in a search engine before - and actually I'm not convinced that social networking is a good fit with search. But let's take a look at how this works, using an example provided to us by Hakia:
1. You ask a query and then receive your search results:
2. You will see an icon in the top-right of search results that says "Meet Others who asked the same query". If you click on the button, you enter into a room (if the room exists) of people who have a) asked the same or similar query; and b) decided to post a message to the room.
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