Next-generation search engines compared

by Jordan Running Jul 20th 2006

Over at Read/WriteWeb Ebrahim Ezzy has written an interesting article called Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search, which inspects some of the next-generation search technologies that are showing up. Ezzy calls Search 2.0 the third generation of search engines (go figure)--whereas first-generation search (e.g. AltaVista) ranked by content and second-generation search (e.g. Google) ranked by link analysis, Search 2.0 technologies "are designed to combine the scalability of existing internet search engines with new and improved relevancy models; they bring into the equation user preferences, collaboration, collective intelligence, a rich user experience, and many other specialized capabilities that make information more productive." He compares Swicki, Rollyo, Clusty, Wink, and Lexxe to traditional search engines and describes how their models can offer a better experience. This article is just Part 1--in Part 2 Ezzy will look at Jookster, Gravee, PreFound and Ezzy's own company, Qube.

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Tags: clusty, Ebrahim Ezzy, EbrahimEzzy, lexxe, readwriteweb, rollyo, search, search20, swicki, web20, wink

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Gagan Chadha said 11:52PM on 7-31-2006

Seach2.0 is not far from being published. I am of the strong opinion that search2.0 will be far ahead of present google. I would like to see artificial intelligence built into next generation search engines...lets see who is going to ride this wave...

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