On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Venkatraman S <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > Try throwing the keyword "Apple" in Google and DuckDuckGo and feel the > > > difference !! > > > > excellent example > > > > I do not think so; people do not generally search for single terms, and > even > if they do, > how many times do you think people google for apple with the fruit in mind, > most of the > cases it is 'apple' as in a company. > > No search Engine is capable enough to infer this . While throwing a keyword or phrase to a search engine there is a "searchers/ users intention" . Computer systems can't make any inference about the 'intention'. > Cognitive sciences and psychology affect technology a lot; and companies > which take > advantage of this would be the winner. > > I do agree . So why Search Engines like Google provides autosuggest and related features > Google is a verb now ; It is more than a verb now . We can say there is a "googilization" (like globalization ) and people addicted to it. Search Engines like DDG, Hakia, Blekko etc has considerable difference from Google . Google respects all the SEO professionals and others considers the real content in the webpage ;-) . DDG tries to disambiguate the search term and try to classify it . The same thing is applied in Hakia in a different way . All we follows a circular search behaviour in Google . DDG and others tries to reduce the cycle in obtaining the desired search result. There is an interesting book called "Search Patterns" . Reading the book may give more insight to this . If somebody brings semantic search (fullfledged ) in to practice that will be a Google Killer ;-) > DDG is good, but not great. Do I like it? Yes(esp the Duck). Will I use > it? > No. > > This is like the word of M$W user after getting intro about GNU/Linux ;-) -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
