The Pebble and the Avalanche

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Current Revolutions in Business and Technology

by Dr. Moshe Yudkowsky,

author of The Pebble and The Avalanche: How Taking Things Apart Creates Revolutions

 

Thu, 2006-Jul-20, 11:02

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Next-Generation Search Engines

When Google returns several hundred thousand answers that's almost worse than no answers at all; wading through page after page of results isn't very productive. While I continue to use Google, I've kept on the lookout for next-generation search engines — search engines that are smarter than Google, or that provide useful strategies to improve search results. Here's an article that summarizes how several next-generation search engines help you find the answers you're looking for. It's fascinating to see how the various different "components" of search — the basic index, the interfaces, the search strategies, ideas from elsewhere such as "tagging" and "social networking," and still other innovations — combine in different ways to provide very different search services.

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