Seven Search Engine Evolutions for '07

eldavojohn writes "I found a short but interesting list of predicted evolutions of search engines that will most likely be implemented in 2007. While some are vague and obvious like a better human interactive experience, there are others that are worth looking into like alternative means of indexing and using semantics — not keywords — for matching documents. The author of this list is Dr. Riza Berkan, also the author of 'Fuzzy Systems Design Principles.'"

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Get your own house in order

[RealSurreal]

Let's hope it's better than the author's search engine, hakia.com. Just used it to search for "nike stores in the uk". First result is an etailer in the US, all the others are spam sites. Looks like we've got a long way to go before search engines actually understand what I'm looking for.

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[Evangelion]

Google reveals nothing, therefore we can conclude it does not, in fact, exist.

God, that is so beautiful.

Weighted sorting is all I want

[foniksonik]

I just want to tell the engine that keyword 1 is 5 times as important as keyword 2

Give me a slider control that instantly filters the results... ie: have the first 100 results waiting for me with 20 showing, then let me adjust the weight of my keywords until I get the list I am looking for with individual items falling off or being added to the list as I adjust the controls.