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Knuru.com : New entrant in the business information search engine world

Nicolas — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:32:00 +0200

A new search engine recently appears on the Internet : knuru.com knuru.com defined himself as a free next generation knowledge resource for business information.

knuru philosophy is quite close to Reportlinker'one : help user to identify information that can be found in the overcrowded world of general search engine.

The interesting features of this search engine is the two tabs in which they sort their product : - strategic results - news results

They defintely follow the trends of Hakia and Google, that we described earlier in this blog. Nevertheless, one differciation axe appear, since they sign an agreement with The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. They now allow information professionals to search for source in the business knowledge center of the business school.

knuru can be accessed via a Partner websites network, via knuru.com and can also be accessed (via a downloadable application) by users of Microsoft Office via the Research button.

Search Engine add news in their results

Nicolas — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:34:00 +0200

Two news were published last week, telling that search engine are mixing "classical" with news results into their results pages.

The start up Hakia (Founded in 2004, based in New York City) has developed a Web’s new meaning-based search engine, utilizing a semantic approach to deliver search results. Basically, Hakia is running its search engine since several months, and announced this week an increases of News Content Volume by 100%. Thus, Hakia is the First Search Engine to Mix News with Web Search Results !

Google also announced its desire to do so. At the moment, as Google news bot crawl sites fastest that Googlebot, Google will add news results in a top box. But news and other results will be merge in a near future.

So we can wonder why search engines are today using this strategy ? The answer is detailled in the Hakia blog. Using this strategy is the "only proper way of handling long tail searches". That also gives a clue to bloggers that are wondering if Google use semantic technology into its results. Because matching web pages with news, without over ranking one of this type of content, can only be done with a semantic search engine....

Zoominfo gives away valuable content on companies

Nicolas — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:42:00 +0200

Zoominfo, as Reportlinker, uses Open Access Information to allow business users to find business information.

ZoomInfo is the premier "executive information search engine", with profiles on more than 35 million people and 3.8 million companies. ZoomInfo delivers a single site for quick and easy access to in-depth information on industries, companies, people, products, services and jobs.

SME had to pay costly annual premiums to business information services in order to access information on a limited number of companies, or manually read and digest the thousands of Web results for a specific search on Google or other general search engines. Looking for some executives profiles, Company can now use Zoominfo.... and Reportlinker if they search for industry reports.