Teoma provides numerous methods to both refine your search and locate subject specific resources. Conduct a search on search technology and you will find on the right side a “Refine” option that presents you with useful “refinements” to your search query. In addition, you will find a collection of “Resources” directly below the refinements option that easily allows you to locate “expert” sites on search technology. You will also see that Search Engine Watch is one of those results. You will also see the sponsored listings at the top, provided by Google, and you will find the Web page results directly below. Google is the first result for that keyword (and we all know why).
In addition, Ask.com allows you to search for anything and it attempts to provide exactly what you are looking for without the use of any "tabs." For example, I did a search on "picture of chair" at Ask Jeeves, and - guess what? It gave me actual pictures of chairs! Ask Jeeves calles this technology Natural Language Processing (NLP). For a complete listing of technologies and features provided by Ask Jeeves, please visit: http://sp.ask.com/docs/about/tech.html. For advanced search tips from Teoma, please visit: http://sp.teoma.com/docs/teoma/about/advsearchtips.html.
Teoma has come a long way since April 2000, and has achieved the rank of number three search technology. Its unique method of providing relevant and accurate results makes Teoma and its partners stand apart from the other search engine technologies. As the features and index improve, Teoma will continue to succeed by adding partners and a more satisfied user base. It will be interesting to follow Teoma and Ask Jeeves over this coming year, seeing how they compete with the other major search engines.
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