Wednesday, August 10, 2005

The Next Generation

There is no denying that these search engines( Google, Yahoo, MSN ) are among the most popular websites. They mark the daily entry point into the Web experience. Search engines are trying to offer more and to be more useful. Whether it is Google’s personalized or local or universal search or Yahoo's geotargeting, they are continuing to evolve. We are seeing the sophistication of the spiders ( crawlers ) in finding and indexing sites. The increase in user-friendly searching techniques and interface, the expansion of databases and the improved relevancy of results from the database are just a few indications. As the Web continues to grow rapidly, the need for better and smarter search engines only increases. As a result they are moving more towards semantics. Understanding users mind and supplying the appropriate results, they understand the meaning of the query whether the search is for commercial purpose or information purpose and serve results accordingly.There has been various theories put forward on this topic. For example, future of search will allow users to search by, matching via topic and synonym. This is something pretty advanced and will take a lot of effort to achieve.

Next generation search engines will make use of methods that will make semantic-based searches, personalized searches, peer-to-peer searches,etc. highly possible. Some like Google with their advanced capabilities will produce excellent fine-grained topic and genre classifications and synonyms automatically. Google is the fastest going search engine now and their ability to grow with cheap softwares makes anything possible.

Web search has a number of properties:-

1. Most queries are very short: typical queries range between one and five or six words, with a median length of two words.

2. Search engine queries use a very large vocabulary. Even a vocabulary of 100,000 words covers only about 80% of the query traffic.

To tackle this search engines use different diagonal methodologies to over come this problem. The successful ones will be those that are able to solve this problem. In the future, search will be done by voice recognition where we just have to mention the words and the search engines will fetch the necessary information for us.

Source: http://www.searchenginegenie.com

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