Will a Search Engine Provider PLEASE make these enhancements?

I'd even switch from my beloved Google if they happened. And I'm not just saying this because we (Inxight) have the technology to make it happen. I'm saying it as an avid web searcher.

1. An automated index in the cached view. It's hell trying to find any information in long documents. I want an index on the left-hand side which shows me the key people, companies, etc., mentioned in the document. Then I can just click on one of them and it would take me to where the first occurence of that "entity" is...and highlight them for me.

2. Page watch built into the system. I want to be able to tell the system to watch a particular page for changes and tell me when something's changed. It'd also be cool to be able to be notified every time a new document was added to the Google index about "Inxight" (or some other term). I use this in news.google.com all the time, but I want to know about more than just news. Both of these are features in Inxight's Awareness Server...


3. "Top mentions" in summaries and a way to filter results (like what Vivisimo does...Inxight does this, too)

4. The ability to make more intelligent queries like "Inxight and any mentioned within a sentence"

That's all for now!

Take Search the Extra Mile

Extending Enterprise Search with Google and Inxight

Thursday, June 15, 2006
11 AM PDT / 2 PM EDT
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Google and Inxight Software have teamed up to make it even easier to find documents, discover trends and find information within documents in the enterprise. Join us for a free webinar, hosted by Google and Inxight, in which we’ll demonstrate the combination of the Google Search Appliance and Inxight’s new Search Extender for Google.

In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how the Google Search Appliance combined with Inxight’s Search Extender for Google can help you get more value from your information. The Google Search Appliance provides Google-quality search across your Web servers, file systems, portals, content management systems and relational databases. The Inxight Search Extender for Google integrates with the Google Search Appliance to enable users to filter search results sets and more easily navigate through documents, seeing at-a-glance automatically extracted people, companies, places, and other information.

Google...The Kleenex of Maps

Well, it finally happened today. Instead of telling someone "let me Mapquest that for you" I actually used the phrase "let me Google map that for you". I haven't used Mapquest in ages, but it remained as a residual phrase for me (ala "Kleenex" for facial tissue) until now.

Congrats to making it into that corner of my brain, Google!