Search Innovation on Display at Alt Search Engines Conference
The Yahoo! Search BOSS team attended the Alt Search Engines conference in San Francisco earlier this week, and we came away from the conference even more convinced that there’s still a lot of room for innovation in search. We saw dozens of demos of search engines in various stages of development, many of which use BOSS technologies as part of their approach.
We saw four major opportunities that search entrepreneurs are pursuing:
1) Vertical Search – Whether it be image, video, health, or even green search, dozens of entrepreneurs are working on building highly focused vertical search engines.
2) Semantic Search – A group of promising start-ups are focused on using natural language processing or other approaches to build search engines that can understand and respond to the actual meaning of a query.
3) Discovery Engines – A handful of search engines, such as Kosmix and Worio, are working on building engines that integrate structured data from high quality sources to present users with a starting point to discover the best content on a given topic.
4) New Presentation Models – Many search entrepreneurs are working on new ways to present search results, by changing the visual presentation or by clustering by topic or data source.
Bill Michels, GM of BOSS, gave a quick overview of BOSS and where we see opportunities to provide technology to the growing search ecosystem. See his presentation on SlideShare:
Big thanks to Alt Search Engines for providing a venue for collaboration and learning. Keep up the great work, search entrepreneurs!
Graham Mudd
Yahoo! Search BOSS
How much take time to submit in yahoo search? Google take fast submit. Google active search engine. If you take money then directly indicate that. Why hide? I not understand why all lazy.
I understand the vision, but can’t connect it with the current Yahoo reality. We’re one of those companies that would like to build a vertical search business and would be happy to share the revenue with the like of Yahoo. But at the moment the API only allows for as many URLs as can be squeezed into a 2k string. We’d want thousands, maybe tens of thousands. Is this on the agenda? Who do we talk to?
We’re one of those companies that would like to build a vertical search business and would be happy to share the revenue with the like of Yahoo.
Mikothang – I really find it interesting to see all of the new ideas that will make info available even easier on the web. Semantic searches would be especially handy for the less tech savvy people who did not know certain vocabulary.
It would be very innovative if the search page also has some type of profile picture for each website. Just a thought, since a lot of people are visual learners.
It would be a cool idea if search engines displayed favicons alongside search result listings.
This is a good idea. Yahoo go go go…
Yahoo has to overcome google, Because I think they are a great site.
Lets hope yahoo make a good comeback, we need some serious competition to the Big G