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Can Search Be Made More Sensible?
from the nice-in-theory... dept
With so much attention being placed on search these days, many are starting to explore whether there's a "next generation" style of search that goes beyond today's search systems found on the popular engines. Here's an article suggesting that maybe the next big thing in search is not a search engine but a "sense engine." Of course, reading the article, you realize this is basically marketing-speak for a clustering engine -- such as the one that Vivisimo already offers. Basically, the real end goal is to have a search engine that can figure out exactly what you really want -- but in the meantime, all they can do is clump similar findings together and have you pick a group. The technology is still very early stage, and so far, it seems like being smarter about query creation on traditional search engines (basically, ad hoc clustering by adding and/or excluding certain words) is more effective and efficient than using a clustering engine.
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Look at Northern Light, it had clustering long ago
The clustering itself was done by a bunch of librarians well-trained in taxonomy. They were much more effective than any computer-driven algorithm.
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Re: Look at Northern Light, it had clustering long
By the way, instead of clustering search results, it attempted to create a directory of the Web
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