• Alt Search Engines , Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:30 PM

Dmitri Soubbotin, CEO of Semantic Engines poses a question with his post--namely, are the standard "10 blue links" search results we've all become accustomed to, really effective for every query?

"Looking at the search market share, it may seem that most people are content with Google or Yahoo or Microsoft," Soubbotin says. "However, various satisfaction surveys indicate that users spend too much time searching and not always finding. That's why dozens of 'alternative' search engines create a more efficient way of searching. Among these, there are a number of 'semantic' search engines."

SenseBot, a service backed by Semantic Engines, aims to deliver more efficient search results by delving into the context of queries, and returning related, summarized info. So a search for "Marseilles Hotel Miami," for example, would yield an overall summary of all the results available, including facts at a glance like the hotel's star rating (3 stars), location (in Miami's South Beach entertainment district and right on the beach), and so on.

"Glancing through the summary, you can also see which of the sources consistently give you more useful information, and drill into those through the links within the summary," Soubbotin says.

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