(Images above show our internal ALPHA NLP search module technology in action, click to view)
The next wave of search engines seems to revolve around NLP, search engines such as Lexxe, Powerset, and others.
If you ever came across these search engines and wanted to come up with a question you probably paused and thought “what do I type here?” or “How do I phrase this in one line?”
While NLP is natural language, as phrasing quality questions require a skill set many individuals do not possess naturally, especially since for the last ten years worldwide citizens have been trained to cut their search phrases to 2-3 words, I see is an uphill battle for NLP search engines. The battle I see is well worth fighting, it is the battle to improve questioning skills in the class, in the workforce, online, and in our daily lives.
The solution here is two folds.
1. Improving questioning skills - This is most important as the better questioning skills an individual has the better the individual can deal with the world, today and tomorrow.
2. Improving technology to understand questions better - While this is exactly what these new search engines are trying to do, without first improving questioning skills, the task of getting users to use these search engines on a constant basis isn’t as easy as it could be.
As we move forward with better search technologies and better education we will need to undue the damage traditional search engines cause society, the damage of searching by keywords rather then by questions, the damage of a “quick fix” rather then a solution which improves the individual, and improves society.
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Sahar, looks like this has come a long way from the preview I saw some time ago. Can’t wait to see you open it to the public again.
/Frank
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Hi Frank,
This is not what you saw last time but a completely different search technology. What you saw is in the works, hope to release within a couple of months.
“When was george washington born?” — 3 clusters on the side say February 22nd, 1732, 2 say February 11th, 1732, and 1 says February 11th, 1731. Perhaps before we can have answers the engines need to be able to distiguish fact from fiction
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Which search engine are you using to get these kind of results?