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SearchPaths
A search engine which which suggests terms to add to your search | |
I often find searching for stuff online a real pain.
Wouldn't it be great if my search engine could suggest a list of words that I might like to try to narrow down my list of hits. I would then click on one of the words to add it to my search.
Say I type in 'bank'. The engine comes back with the
following suggested extra words that might improve my search:
money
direction
card
blood, sperm
winnings
Maybe they could do this by clustering the most frequent words associated with bank.
eg.
Money is the most frequent word to collocate with bank, direction is the next most frequent word that doesn't collocate with money , card is the next most frequent word that collocates with bank but not money or direction.
This might take a little bit of the pain out of searching.
http://clusty.com/
[jutta, Feb 25 2007]
http://www.grokker.com/
"This should just take a few moments." No, it really shouldn't. It should be instantaneous. Grumble. [jutta, Feb 25 2007]
http://www.kartoo.com/
Flash, cartoon characters .. oh my. [jutta, Feb 25 2007]
http://vivisimo.com/
[jutta, Feb 25 2007]
The joy of sets
http://labs.google.com/sets
[Ian Tindale, Feb 25 2007]
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This is called clustered search. Here, have some links. |
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The bad news is that all these interfaces are (a) caught up in flimsy tree-display technology, (b) don't have large-enough search bases, and (c) none of them drills into far-away semantic clusters quite as well as you probably think they should. So, you'll get lots of banks, but pretty much none of them will be sperm, river, or Tyra. |
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thanks, wonder why google doesn't do this? which is the best - after a 2min look, I prefered vivisimo. |
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yes I didn't get anything on blackjack/pontoon. I wonder if this is the nature of the banking sector being so diverse or the clustering not emphasising some kind of no overlap principle enough. |
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I think the search engines are spending most of their time trying to "read your mind", and very little time offering you options that would reveal which kind of bank you're thinking about. Which may be the right thing to do for a "one-shot" mass audience that rarely looks beyond the first ten results, but it's frustrating for people who actually would like to interact with their search engine and look around. |
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Even Google seems to lack some obvious
and presumably easily-implemented
features. Its "advanced" search option
only has very limited options - surely the
underlying software could handle more
complex queries (eg "[(goldfish OR
zebrafish] AND toxin NOT (barometer or
(amalgam* AND mercury)]"? |
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If Goolge would just recognise "/" then that would be a start. Ever tried searching for specific wire ropes, whose classifications rely heavily on the slash character? A pain. |
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//Ever tried searching for specific wire
ropes, whose classifications rely heavily on
the slash character?// I think we're all
with you on that one, Texticle. |
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