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We are working with one of our clients on a Vertical search engine targetting a specific sector and were mulling over some of the issues with search today.

Now, amongst all of the goodies out there including Intent search (why has Mindset been shut down Yahoo?) and the promise of Semantic search, the closest we have got is categorised search results where the thousands of results are dropped into folders. So watch this space for something along those lines…

And very serendipitously the raison d’etre came to us via Google’s recent claim of indexing a trillion pages, we-knew-web-was-big and the 10th Anniversary page at www.google.com/search2001.html and the application of a bit of sums that suggests there are over 750 times as many pages out there. So each search potentially returns 750 times as many results - too many to handle. Hence the need intent/categories.

I suspect the search world will become very interesting over the next few years.

Tags: google, search, search 2.0

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