Smart Search Engines Find Best Facts by Mick O'Leary, Information Today (June 2008)
Mike O'Leary directs us to two search engines that try to make sense of search results - or make it easier for us to make sense of those results.
Nice description of service -- "They start with search results that are similar to what users would receive from Google and the others, and then they apply postsearch analysis to extract answer-oriented content".
Sensebot creates a text summary or sentences from the results - a kind of abstract. There is also a tag cloud. To search enter the query; select from Google, Yahoo, MSN, or Google News; and pick the language. The select from the 10 results which ones you would like included in the analysis.
Factbites also extracts the more meaningful and relevant sentences. However, it works best from its "datqbase of common search topics".
Dmitri Soubbotin, CEO of Sensebot, describes the tool in Alternative Search Results Part II - Alt Search Engines (Jul 23)
"The niche that SenseBot occupies within the semantic search engine family is in attempting to provide an overview and facilitate overall understanding of the subject, as opposed to finding hard facts and answering direct questions."
Add both to your list to use on the non-Google days. Mike O'Leary recommends against using them for obscure or very new topics because both need substantial content to work with.
Posted by Gwen at July 24, 2008 06:23 PM