Category: Interviews

Yauba is an brand new yet fully fledged semantic search engine with their own index and a claim to offer truly anonymous search with three levels of privacy. It has an uncluttered user interface which is easy to use yet holds a number of advanced search options. We have asked Yauba founder A. Ahmed Hossain about this and about other aspects of this new combatant on the search engine arena.

Duck Duck Go is a new search engine with a focus on user experience. It “outgoogles” Google when it comes to simplisity and ease of use. I am particularily impressed with the search results page. Navigation is intuitive and yet it holds a lot of useful tools and information.

I have talked to Gabriel Weinberg who is Founder and CEO of Duck Duck Go. In the interview he talks about what makes Duck Duck Go different from other searche engines, what he has done to eliminate spam from the search results, how the search result pages optimized for ease of use and what his business plan is.

SnappyFingers calls itself a comprehensive question/answer explorer. What this means is they index millions of FAQs spread across the web to give you a one-stop-shop for when you turn to the Web to have your questions answered. We have interviewed the founder of SnappyFingers, Chirayu Patel to learn more about how SnappyFingers works and to get a glimpse behind the scenes of an answer search service in the making.

Social search is upon us: A new brand of search engines is taking shape right now. In July we covered Scour, a new social meta search engine that encourages voting and commentary on its query results. In order to give you a glimpse behind the scenes of a social search engine in the making, we have interviewed Scour CEO Dan Yomtobian.

Northern Light has been around since the beginning of web search. For six years, Norhtern Light’s services have been reserved for enterprise customers. Recently, they launched a free business news search engine. Pandia has talked to CEO of Northern Light, David Seuss, to find out more about this and other Northern Light products. What does the world of search look like from Northern Light’s point of view?

Recently, Pandia reviewed Kosmix, a web portal and clustering engine rolled into one. We liked what we saw, so we talked to Venky Harinarayan, co-founder of Kosmix to find out more about how they see themselves in the search engine food chain.

Omgili is a search engine that indexes web-based discussion boards to see if your question might already be answered somewhere out there on the web. Since we reviewed Omgili back in 2006 it have kept evolving and now spiders Digg, MySpace and other social media sites for answers. I talked to Ran Geva, CEO at Omgili, to find out what’s new.

SortFix is a metasearch engine that searches Google, Yahoo and dmoz. What sets it apart from other metasearch engines is the way it presents the search result. Sortfix gives you a drag-and-drop interface which assists the user to describe a detailed and precise query. I talked to Yohay Barsky from the SortFix team to get an inside view of search engine innovation: How did the SortFix team decide on features for their metasearch engine and what do they see as their contribution to web search?