Exploring a New Search Engine: Galaxy IT
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Google leads the pack as far as search engine market share, but that doesn’t stop other companies from trying to reinvent Internet search with new approaches. Galaxy IT thinks its visual interface provides users with a more intuitive way to search. Should Google be worried?

 

The short answer is no, of course, but new ideas in search deserve a good look at least, and perhaps some encouragement. Galaxy IT says they use “fractal-grid technology” to display search information in a visually organized manner. They note that this approach can be used to display any information that resides in a database.

There are plenty of other search engines that offer a more visual interface than the 10-links-per-page-in-a-list setup popularized by Google and the other major search engines. Quintura lets users enter a keyword and returns a cloud of words to help you focus your search results, for example. So Galaxy IT’s concept is not totally unique.

It’s clear from their About Us page that the company has a sense of humor and is enthusiastic about what they’re doing. Company founder and CEO Dr. Rod King has a multidisciplinary background in civil engineering, infrastructure planning and regional development planning; he also invented the fractal-grid technology. From the page covering the team working on the search engine, though, you’ll find out that he’s funny (ask him, he’ll tell you), wordy, and brilliant, which is a good thing “or we’d all be writing software for a start-up company. Wait a minute…”

More seriously, the Galaxy IT team was humble enough, since this project is still in the alpha stage, to list the top ten things they expect to get slammed on in reviews. We’ll return to that top ten list in a bit, especially since some reviewers have disagreed with the items that Galaxy IT expected to get criticized for and added a few of their own. I’ll say only that their attitude seems to be good – or at least what you’d expect of a start-up in this field. Attitude won’t get you all the way, though, so it’s time to take the search engine out for a spin.

Next: Fractal-Grid Technology in Action >>
 

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