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Researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT have developed a new search engine that outperforms current ones, and helps people to do searches more efficiently.
The SciNet search engine is different because it changes internet searches into recognition tasks, by showing keywords related to the user’s search in topic radar. People using SciNet can get relevant and diverse search results faster, especially when they do not know exactly what they are looking for or how to formulate a query to find it.
Once initially queried, SciNet displays a range of keywords and topics in a topic radar. With the help of the directions on the radar, the engine displays how these topics are related to each other. The relevance of each keyword is displayed as its distance from the centre point of the radar — those more closely related are nearer to the centre, and those less relevant are farther away. The search engine also offers alternatives that are connected with the topic, but which the user might not have thought of querying. By moving words around the topic radar, users specify what information is most useful for them.
http://www.aalto.fi/en/current/news/2015-01-27/
[Paper]: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/1/181621-interactive-intent-modeling/fulltext
(Score: 2, Insightful) by acharax on Thursday February 05 2015, @01:51AM
What I really want to see again is a search engine that returns the results for the queries I actually input, instead of yet another one that assumes I don't really know what I'm looking for and instead forcefeeds me with guesswork.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 05 2015, @02:00AM
> What I really want to see again is a search engine that returns the results for the queries I actually input,
Preface your google searches with "allintext:" and you will only get literal matches for each keyword.
I tweaked my local install of the firefox search plugin for google to do that automatically for me. (I also made it append &gbv=1 so that I get the search results without javascript too.)
(Score: 2, Interesting) by acharax on Thursday February 05 2015, @02:43AM
It will also get you flagged as a bot when used too often.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Aiwendil on Thursday February 05 2015, @11:25AM
Just add &tbs=li:1 to your search-url for google, it sets the verbatim mode (also hidden under the search tools) which basically is "google without the 'smart' features"