New Search Engine Promises Relevance, Now , Avi Rappoport, Newsbreaks (Aug 19)
"The new search engine, NowRelevant.com, says that it will find, “everything about your subject for the past two weeks.” The name promises relevance, but what does that even mean? Information science researchers have been trying to understand it for over fifty years, and it’s become clear that relevance is in the eye of the beholder. Some beholders may love NowRelevant.com—others may not."
The search interface and results page are very sparse - and there are no advertisements. The search is slow - this is beta version. Hard to know if results are more relevant.
NowRelevant does not state how it selects for within 14 days. As we know, date on webpages is very unreliable.
From the About Page.
"NowRelevant.com allows users of its PPC campaigns to access the wealth of its resources dating back chronologically to exactly 14 days from the time of their search. This enables both the viewers of search results as well as PPC advertisers to target their PPC campaigns to a specific set of keyword phrases that are bound to receive public attention no matter what, enabling advertisers to compete better on NowRelevant.com with a much lower advertiser competition ratio than found on any other search engine."
Posted by Gwen at August 31, 2010 02:47 PM