Text mining search engine SenseBot adds images
SenseBot uses text mining of web pages of other search engines to generate a summary on the topic of user’s query. The summary crosses the boundaries of individual sources, and serves as an overall result of the search.
Recently, SenseBot has integrated image and video results into its summary page. A row of thumbnails is displayed above the textual summary. The originality of the approach is that the multimedia results are selected not just based on the user’s query, but on some combination of the query and the concepts mined by SenseBot while constructing the summary.
This may not make a difference in case of a query where numerous sources discuss very similar set of concepts. For instance, searching for “Hillary Clinton” would show pretty much the same images on most multimedia search engines. However, when a search topic is more specific, SenseBot can increase relevance of results. If you search for “Heather Mills” on Google Images, you will get a whole page of Heather’s images. The same search on SenseBot will display a row of images of both Heather Mills and Paul McCartney, which fits as a relevant illustration to the summary below.
The images and videos displayed depend heavily on the multimedia provider.
This looks like an attempt to marry text mining with multimedia search.
SenseBot has partnered with Pixsy to deliver the thumbnails.
Give it a try yourself at www.sensebot.net.
