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Monday, 27th November 2006

Another Day and More Web Search Tools For Your Radar Scope: Powerset & Hakia

Another Day and More Search Tools for Your Radar Scope

No slowdown in search tools coming in early 2007. Here are links to two new large general-purpose web search engines set to launch next year.

1) Powerset
A) Will utilize Natural Language Processing
B) Currently in a "semi-stealth mode." No specific launch date has been announced.
C) Powerset Blog
D) Recently Announced $12.5 Million in 'Series A' Funding
E) Powerset was mentioned in The Observer and The Times of London in the past couple of weeks.

2) Hakia
A A "meaning-based" search engine"
A) Live "beta" currently online and available for testing
B) No specific launch date set
C) This page lists what the company believes are Hakia's most important features.
D) Example of a "Hakia gallery."

On semi-related notes:

++ Clusty/Vivisimo's
A) Results pages allow the user to "see" concepts/ideas that would be impossible or very time consuming to identify if they were looking at pages one at a time. In other words, they not only can help the searcher narrow/focus their search, but also serve as an info discovery tool.
Examples here, here (ClusterMed), and here.

+++ What about kozoru (a company that hoped to offer a tool that was language based, not keyword based)? Well, earlier this year they switched gears and released, byoms that offered easy-to-use technology for creating search via IM? Well, according to this KC Star article, kozoru is no longer in business.

+++ Ask.com
Disclosure: Gary serves as Director of Online Information Resources at Ask.com.
A) Ask is an algorithmic search engine (you can submit your question in question form if you like) with value-added features including:
B) Ask's "Expert Rank" dynamically breaks down pages into subject clusters. Zoom (as seen in the right column) can help the searcher identify related concepts, names, etc.
C) "Smart Answers" can provide an answer in near real time here), direct the user to useful links on a specific topic, or help disambiguate a query.


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