Thursday, June 22, 2006

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!

No comments: