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A Look at the latest Web Search Engines : 2008

20 December 2008 No Comment

With Google, Yahoo and MSN Live, 3 of the biggest search engines around, What makes these newly released web search engines different?

    Search Engine Overview
    Powerset’s goal is to change the way people interact with technology by enabling computers to understand our language. While this is a difficult challenge, we believe that now is the right time to begin the journey. Powerset is first applying its natural language processing to search, aiming to improve the way we find information by unlocking the meaning encoded in ordinary human language.
    Viewzi is a whole new way to experience search. Instead of one big list, you get nice visual Views tailored for the content you are looking for: With traditional text-based search engines, no matter what or how you search, your results are basically the same. Searching for Bono looks the same as searching for chicken recipes or sports cars:
    cuil Cuil is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. It claims to have a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. It went live on July 28, 2008.
    Boogami is a search engine that was developed by James Wildish, a sixteen year old college student from Kent in United Kingdom. It combines a search engine with a pixel advertising grid that appears every time someone uses Boogami to search the Internet
    LeapFish is the first multi-dimensional information aggregator and search portal in the world. LeapFish’s purpose is to gather, organize and render the most relevant information from the internet’s most valuable destinations for each user search entry.

Source: All Web 2.0

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