Search Engines and Algorithms: New Social Search - A Need for Social Improvements
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Because AnooX is still in beta, they are still working out a few of the bugs. Some problems AnooX is experiencing and goals they have to evolve their engine from beta status:
Further improvement to search result speed (SRS), toward getting SRS down to under 1 second (Google and Yahoo Search Result Speed (SRS) are under 1 second on average whereas AnooX is around 7 seconds.)
To index greater number of pages and to index at faster rate (They have indexed a few Billion pages, whereas AnooX has indexed about 20 million (home) pages.)
Better detection of junk pages
Better and more complete display of page titles and descriptions
“To address the number 1 & 2 issues we need not just to improve the core of the search engine, which we are working on, but we need mainly more servers and more powerful servers. And since we are a small business it is not so easy for us to just get more and more servers.”
Social Search engines, while a novel idea, are fraught with obvious politically driven issues, and SERPs manipulation is easier to achieve than with a computer-driven algorithm alone. But since there is a lot of room for evolution and change with this idea, I can’t discount it completely. Search engines are constantly revamping and refining their techniques; so while I have reservations about the Social Search the way it is now, I am very interested to see where it will be in a few months, or even a few years, as there is a definite room for enhancement of the algorithmic search. So I would promote a Social Search engine as a supplement to current web searching, as long as you’re aware that Social Search can be manipulated; but I think it’s too early in the game to make any sort of predictions as to how the Social Search will revolutionize the search industry as a whole.
As for AnooX’s claims that they have a fundamentally better search engine, I would wholeheartedly disagree; however, it is a nice sales pitch.
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