Tag Archives: Semantic Search Engine

Jana Herwig

Hakia to use Yahoo! BOSS to improve Semantic Analysis

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Four days ago I started this “Overview of Semantic Search Engines” blog project in which Hakia was featured – today an update came in via Beyond Search that Hakia is planning to use Yahoo’s Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) to accelerate its Semantic Analysis. Hakia themselves wrote on their blog yesterday:

We are pleased to announce our participation in Yahoo!’s Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) today. As part of this initiative, we have access to one of the largest Web directories on the Internet, which accelerates hakia’s QDEXing process and semantic analysis of the Web’s content. QDEXing is a critical element that replaces traditional index to allow scalable semantic search. Without this kind of infrastructure, application of semantic technology is destined to be limited, such as covering Wikipedia only.

The search landscape is currently in a dynamic stage of reinvention. Yahoo! is inviting more innovation to enter the market, while Microsoft validates the importance of semantic search technology with its recent acquisition of Powerset. For the latter, we congratulate both parties, yet are disappointed by the fact that we’ve lost our favorite competitor. From now on, we will look for traces of the Powerset-effect in LiveSearch.

Hope they’ll blog about it if they trace any!

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Jana Herwig

An overview of Semantic Search engines

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Not a fortnight seems to go by these days without the announcement of another new Semantic Search engine – hence I though I sit down and draw up my own little list of currently available search engines. The amount of semantics in them isn’t always transparent – hardly any of these search engine providers wants to disclose the ingredients in their recipe. I’ve also included a few search engines or search engine type applications that rely on collective or social intelligence to improve their search results.

If you have heard of any other semantic search engines that are not yet on the list, please leave a comment. They appear in alphabetical order, i.e. in no particular order. The information contained in ‘Notes’ is not intended as an independent evaluation. You might also want to check out the Top 100 list of alternative search engines on ReadWriteWeb – even though a number of search engines – sadly, are no longer online since the article was published in January 2007… Continue reading →