Web 2.0: Who, What, Why, How » search

Google SearchWiki

tpelkie — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:44:43 +0000

Customize and save your Google searches!

SearchWiki lets you customize your Google Web Search results. You can rank, remove and add notes to any result page and see those tailored results anytime you do that search while you’re logged in to your Google Account.

Posted in Google, Search Tools Tagged: Google, search, Wiki

Twitter Search

tpelkie — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:45:56 +0000

http://search.twitter.com

Twitter now has the ability to search the posts. So you can See what the world is doing — right now.

Twitter has acquired Summize—an extraordinary search tool and an amazing group of engineers. All five Summize engineers will move to San Francisco, CA and take jobs at Twitter, Inc. This is an important step forward in the evolution of Twitter as a service and as a company.

Mahalo

tpelkie — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:42:22 +0000

May 2007, Santa Monica, CA

Mahalo is a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms. Our search results only include great links.

Mahalo is Hawaiian for Thank you.

Powerset

tpelkie — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:41:18 +0000

powerset.com – launched in 2005, based in San Francisco, CA

Powerset is a semantic search service.

It searches wikipedia only at the moment but may go further in the future. It appears to be an implementation of Tim Berners Lee’s “Semantic Web”, where we have a searche that is based on “meaning” rather than on matching words or phrases.

This could be the emergence of a Web 3.0 technology.

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.

Powerset’s first product is a search and discovery experience for Wikipedia, launched in May 2008. Powerset’s technology improves the entire search process. In the search box, you can express yourself in keywords, phrases, or simple questions. On the search results page, Powerset gives more accurate results, often answering questions directly, and aggregates information from across multiple articles. Finally, Powerset’s technology follows you into enhanced Wikipedia articles, giving you a better way to quickly digest and navigate content.