[WEB4LIB] Re: Mooter search engine

[Stephen Shaw]

another good example of this is Web Brain:

http://www.webbrain.com/html/default_win.html



On 19 Nov 2004 at 9:27, bardsley at u.washington.edu wrote:

> While we're on the subject of search engines, here's another to be
> looked at:
> 
> http://www.kartoo.com/
> 
> You have to do a search to see how it works. It has been in
> development for several years and adds much more visual metadata 
to
> search hits than any search engine I've seen. I don't use it because
> it feels cumbersome and slow. Some people might really like it 
though.
> Among other things, you can do a broad search then slice and dice
> categories from it to refine it.
> 
> Mark Bardsley
> 
> 
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Terry Nikkel wrote:
> 
> > The current discussion of Google Scholar is stimulating and seems 
to
> > be making a lot of us think hard about our roles in the evolving
> > world of search engines.  I have come across another search 
engine
> > that I had not heard of before, called Mooter, and that I think may
> > interest search engine fans.  Mooter is under development in
> > Australia, and is headed by Liesl Capper, who is a psychologist.  A
> > couple of simple searches show that Mooter has some great 
features,
> > particularly clustering of related results.  http://www.mooter.com
> >
> > The following is a quote from the Mooter 'About' page:
> > In the past, search engine development focused on making as 
much
> > information available to users as possible. It was up to the user to
> > sort through hundreds or possibly millions of search results to find
> > what they were looking for.
> >
> > Mooter, by contrast, employs unprecedented "artificial algorithms"
> > based on psychological modelling to process and understand the
> > information users seek.
> >
> > "Today's engines typically throw up hundreds of results and ask
> > users to sort through them or rephrase the search criteria," Ms
> > Capper, CEO of Mooter, says.
> >
> > "We use complex algorithms to short-circuit the search process."
> >
> > "Users shouldn't have to work hard to find what they want. Mooter
> > sets out to solve the problems of most search engines by
> > understanding the psychology of how users interact with
> > information."
> >
> > Terry Nikkel
> >
> > Terry Nikkel
> > Head, Library Systems
> > Dalhousie University Libraries
> >
> > Phone: 902-494-6686
> > Fax: 902-494-2062
> > Cell: 902-449-8706
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 


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