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Better Search Engines

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the finding-nemo dept.

prostoalex writes "Scientific American is seeking better Web searches. They report on all sorts of innovations happening outside the Google-Yahoo-MSN zone that the press is usually reporting on, including GPS-enhanced searches from University of Maryland, Shape Retrieval and Analysis from Princeton, musical search engine from New Zealand Digital Library Project, and some of the projects that A9 and Ask.com have been working on."

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  1. Clusty = Innovative by int2str · · Score: 4, Informative

    Asides from the horrible name, clusty (a clustering search engine) is very innovative and easy to use. I hope more search engines will adapt similar technology soon.

    Link to clusty.com search engine

  2. Re:What I want by me+at+werk · · Score: 4, Informative

    CopyScape can do the recognizing of copied stuff, but it's purpose is only finding website plagarism. This, however, would definately find all the wikipedia forks unless it's a really old copy and the page has had a major rewrite.

    If google could integrate copyscape into their search, you would be happy.

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  3. It's available! by ByteMangler_242 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can do this in google: searchterm1 searchterm2 ~bogus The tilde will look for synonyms. You can see which ones hit back by reading the bold results which are neither searchterm1 or searchterm2. I use ~howto and ~cheats often.

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