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Search evolution, some thoughts and trends.
Kjell Gunnar Bleivik August 21 2009. May be updated with additional information.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. The future of search may be a combination of art and science.
Search engine bots and web crawlers crawl the world wide web 7 days a week and 24 hours a day for news, new subjects and information on new sites. So long key word search has been the dominating technology. Now there seem to be an ongoing competition between the highly respected company Wolfram Research and the most popular search engine Google. See the videos and articles below. Wolfram will make knowledge computable and Google will extract and present data in a spread sheet (square matrix) format. Google has also announced a new version of Google Search that is in Beta stage when this article is written. A web page or document is a tag soup that can be viewed in the ordinary way or as markup from the view + source menu in your browser. The W3C's Document Object Model (DOM), a language independent platform, is basically an object oriented representation of your document. Every element in your X(HT)ML document is represented by an object in that document's DOM tree. The tree structure is called a node-tree. This object oriented presentation of the document opens a whole new world of opportunities. You can set the objects as properties in new classes (objects). Then it is up to your imagination how you will "compute" and present information. Some years ago I wrote a matrix class in C++ using templates. There are some good classic literature references there like Andrew Koenig's "Templates and generic algorithms" written in the june 1994 issue of the Journal of object oriented programming (JOOP). There are two related articles by the same author that is not mentioned there:
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Generics is a very strong form of polymorphism
since it can be used to parameterize code.
Combined with AJAX, the XMLHttpRequest Object and other web application technologies the web's search space should grow in dimension and depth and the way search results are presented is up to your fantasy. As Einstein once said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge". The future of search may be a combination of art and science. We list two simple examples of what is possible by DOM manipulating this: simple static table There is nothing different if the cells of this table are links or other X(HT)ML elements or text snippets
produced e.g. by the DOM method: Michael W. Berry and Murray Browne:(2005) Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval (Software, Environments, Tools), Second Edition David A. Grossman:(2004): Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics (The Information Retrieval Series)(2nd Edition) Amy N. Langville and Carl D Meyer: (2006) Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings. Bing Liu:(2008) Web Data Mining: Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents, and Usage Data (Data-Centric Systems and Applications) Michael Schrenk:(2007) Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with PHP/CURL |
- WolframAlpha:::Making the world's knowledge computable
- WolframAlpha:::Blog
- Wolfram:::Blog
- SE Journal:::Wolfram Alpha Reports on What it Has Achieved So Far
- Embarcadero Dn:::Related subject
- WebProWorld:::Google - You can still sleep well.
- TechCrunch:::What is Google Squared? It Is How Google Will Crush Wolfram Alpha.
- TechCrunch:::Is Keyword Search About to Hit Its Breaking Point?
- TechCrunch:::Microsoft’s Bing Logo Leaked By Way Of Favicon?
- Bing Community::Bringing a Bit of Twitter to Bing
- BusinessWeek:::Bing: Not Really Gaining on Google
- Microsoft:::Bing
- BingTweets
- ReadWriteWeb:::Interview with Google's Matt Cutts about Next-Generation Search
- engadget:::Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: Historic discussion live from D 2007
- search engine land:::Live Blogging Google Searchology 2009
- InformIT:::Predictions for 2018
- ReadWriteWeb:::Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years
- WebMasterWorld:::Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years
SurfToolbar is a meta search engine and a colletion of international and regional links to:
- Search engines,
- meta search engines,
- other search resources and
- some important articles and papers
- Mtt Cutts: Expect Caffeine after the holidays
- Sabrina I. Pacifici: Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide - Updated and Revised October 2009
- Google Webmaster Central Blog: Help test some next-generation infrastructure
- Monica Peshawe: How search engines work and a web crawler application
- Dreilinger and Howe: Experiences with selecting searh engines using metasearch
- Funkhauser " al.: A search engine for 3D Models
- Glossary of SE terms and SEO: SearchEngine Dictionary
- Stanford University US: Combating web spam with TrustRank
- Sergy Brin and Lawrewnce Page: The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine
- Top article: Google Revealed: The IT Strategy That Makes It Work
- WebProWorld: Google adds the "Suggestion box" to the homepage
- Making searching even easier: Google Guide
- Google Guide: Search operators
- Google Guide: Advanced operators guide
- Flinders University AU: Library Guide. How to use Google
- Search Engines: WebSearchWorkshop
- John Battelle: The birth of Google
- SearchengineHistory: History of SE's
- Google Blogoscoped: Evolution of a SE.
- BruceClay: SE Relationship Chart.
- iHelpYou: SE partnership Chart.
- Ezine Articles: Improve SE Ranking.
- Wired: The end of theory: The data deluge makes the scientific method obsolete.
- WebProWorld: Ignore the misunderstandings that have produced the present world..
- WebMasterWorld: Changing the Way We Do Science - with Google Software.
- cent: Google's open-source Android now actually open
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