According to Velingo, this is “The Problem” with current search engines:

Document tagging is essential for Search since search engines are not enough. Human feedback needs to be taken into account. However, tagging and voting doesn’t reach the major search engines because it is done manually and is thus very limited.

So, along comes Velingo’s solution. Velingo is different because its technology does the tagging automatically. The tags are built from the behavior of the users and describe each document or sets of documents.

Alternative Search Engine Velingo does the following:

1. Displays “Page Tags” that can give the user ideas for better/other keywords to
search for.

2. Displays tags for documents (in the results returned by the search engine).
These tags give a good description for the content of each result.

3. Displays “Social Relevancy” and “Social Ranking” for each result. This gives the user or just the search engine another indication for how relevant this page is for the user’s specific query.

So, this is Velingo’s summary of their advantages:

*No need for a client.

*Every document is tagged.

*Can work in any search engine including Enterprise, Ecommerce.

*The relationship between tags that are based on search decisions can be an
essential Recommendation Engine especially for revenue generated Mobile
Search applications.

*Velingo offers, together with the tagging, a unique and proprietary relevancy factor
that is based on the usage of tagging vs. user query. The Social Relevancy
Factor is an essential factor for any search engine especially enterprise searches
where Page Rank is inapplicable.

*Can enrich advertisement adwords.

*User privacy is fully kept.

*Tags can be text as well as images/video documents.

*FireFox extension (in beta) can build the tags client side – can fit toolbars and
other clients (without any server installation).

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