This comparison is unfair to Powerset and to Google. Powerset is a very new company that is trying to solve a subset of search and with a different focus. Google has been in the search space for last 10 years, relentlessly innovating, has a lions share in the search space and the focus is to [...]
Do we Indians search as much as people from developed countries? I doubt. What are the reasons? I refuse to accept that it is because of absence of search engines in native languages or anything. As one of my colleagues put it, Indians do search a lot but the searches are like assisted searches so [...]
The innovation in the search technology is predominantly being done in the UI side. Will it really increase the user adoption? Emre Sokullu on ReadWriteWeb has this to say:
“ Like Quintura, Snap relies heavily on UI innovations. The problem with relying on UI innovation is that the barrier to entry is too low. The [...]
Nokia filed a new patent about semantic visual search engine. Om Malik reported this on GigaOM.
Nokia is already experimenting with mobile ads and it is interesting to see Google and Nokia competing in mobile space.
Talking about mobile ads, according to this article :
“A surprising 35 percent of adult cell phone users [...]
After Google validated the search engine market space, there are many new comers as I covered in my Smarter Search Engines post. KoolTorch is yet another candidate. KoolTorch claims - “KoolTorch is a next generation, patented technology that provides a USER FRIENDLY interface for viewing and navigating search results. ” I am not sure [...]
Google is synonymous to search. But does it really answer all your search queries? I have found better results on ask.com at times. It is supposed to have more natural language support. As a user, I do not really care what support or technology a search engine has or whether it gives me “googol” results! [...]
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