Comments on: Search Takes a New Shape

By: Mark Cramer

Mark Cramer — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:40:10 +0000

Great piece!

Destination search is extremely difficult, but if you can get users there are few things that monetize better, which is perhaps why you’ll continue to see people making a go at it. There are some small search engines you might never have heard of, that don’t even crawl, which are making tens if not hundreds of millions a year. Nothing next to Google, but still pretty good.

By the way, the link for the Powerset Facebook app isn’t working. I tried to search for the app on Facebook but wasn’t able to find it. That being said, we believe that delivering search technology through downloadable applications, add-ons, plug-ins and/or widgets is a compelling strategy for many companies.

By: Top-of-mind thoughts on Microsoft and Powerset « The Guidewire

Top-of-mind thoughts on Microsoft and Powerset « The Guidewire — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:53:44 +0000

[...] After years toiling in the uber-geek trenches, semantics just got uber-interesting. As I wrote late last week, the days of GoogleKiller.com – an ultimate destination search site to rule them all – are behind [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:42:55 +0000

I completely agree. Semantic technologies are best suited, in the present consumer market, to being passive helpers, quietly working to feed better information to the user. To this point, I think that the acquisition of Powerset by Microsoft could be a large step in that direction.

By: johnerik

johnerik — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:46:19 +0000

I now have 8 tabs sitting open to the right of this one and i’m emailing this to the semantic web austin folks (the cyc folks in there will be excited).

great piece.

By: Mary Fallon

Mary Fallon — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:20:31 +0000

let me correct – that’s Louis Monier who invented Alta Vista not Louise.

By: Mary Fallon

Mary Fallon — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:26:14 +0000

I’d like to see search engines operate more like e-commerce in terms of sorting and filtering results. Engines like Google assume the first few results will satisfy users. Most electronic commerce sites don’t make the same assumption. If you’re searching for shoes to buy, you’re able to sort and filter information about price, size, style, color, manufacturer, and assorted other parameters.

I heard Alta Vista inventor Louise Monier, now with Cuill, complaining recently that none of the new search approaches – blended, social, semantic, or vertical – get to the heart what people need – access to everything on the Web (not just the most popular pages) and an easy way to cull the relevant from the irrelevant.

Which new search engines (or those in development) do queries, analyze sources, organize by topics, and filter results by user-designated parameters much like a research assistant would?

By: Josh Dilworth

Josh Dilworth — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:41:29 +0000

Awesome piece. Seriously. I’m passing this around!