By: Penny Herscher
A gauntlet was thrown down in the recent Techcrunch post, “Is Keyword Search About to Hit Its Breaking Point?” With a provocative up-and-to-the-right Web generations curve, the article claimed that the semantic web is the solution to the limitations of keyword search. And it’s coming in 2010 – if we’d just adopt […]

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I had a look at Pipl for the first time the other day – and happy news! It’s now my favourite people finder – its like yoname on steroids. Where yoname only lets you search for people across social networks (and […]

Visual search engine Picitup has launched into the alternative fray. The search begins with a textual query which registers a line of images, following which the user can pick the image he wants to find matching images for.
Picitup has also analyzed tens of thousands of images and classified them into categories. The outcome is a […]

Guest Author Stephen Arnold
One of my business associates in Canada sent me a link to an interesting search engine named Cluuz.com. The system–unlike the shy Powerset, a media darling developing a semantic search engine–is available for anyone to use. Navigate to Cluuz.com. Make sure you add the extra “u”, or you will be looking at […]

On June 1st, Mottle.net will launch the first search engine to combine the features of Facebook and Wikipedia, enabling users to search for people as well as wiki their profiles.
Mottle.net works like a traditional networking site, allowing users to create their own profiles with pertinent social and career data. However, unique to Mottle, users can […]