December 21, 2006

Red Herring article on Search

An interesting new article on the Search space takes up the fact that Search, in general, is so broad and tough a problem, that “Google, or even Yahoo and MSN, can’t do it all—so nimble startups across the world are seizing opportunities in emerging areas of search.”

Kosmix is given as an example of a startup which, through its specialization in verticals, “avoids retrieving the huge number of irrelevant responses that pile up at Google.”, instead giving better results in Health, Video Games, Travel, Finance, Autos and US Politics.

The full article can be read at:
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=20376&hed=What+Google+Can%E2%80%99t+Do

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