Researchers develop search engine SciNet that outperforms Google, Yahoo, others

29 Jan 2015

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Researchers claim to have developed a new search engine, SciNet, that outperforms current ones like Google, Yahoo and others, and helps people perform searches more efficiently, PTI reported.

The SciNet search engine, developed by researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, works differently by changing internet searches into recognition tasks, by showing keywords related to the user's search in topic radar.

SciNet users can expect to get relevant and diverse search results faster, especially when they do not know exactly what they are looking for or how to formulate a query to find it.

When a query is initially inputted, SciNet displays a range of keywords and topics in a topic radar and with the help of the directions on the radar, the engine displays how these topics are related to each other.

The distance of each keyword from the centre point of the radar corresponds to the degree of relevance of the keyword, with those more closely related being closer to the centre and those less relevant farther away.

The search engine further offers alternatives that are connected with the topic, but which the user might not have thought of querying and by moving words around the topic radar, users specify what information is most useful for them.

People often find it difficult to frame in words what they want to look for and their search needs often do not become more focused until they begin the actual search.

"The SciNet search engine solves these problems. It is easier for people to recognise what information they want from the options offered by the SciNet search engine than it is to type it themselves," explained project`s coordinator Tuukka Ruotsalo scientificcomputing.com reported.

Users specify what information is most useful for them by moving words around the topic radar.
 
The SciNet search engine and the related user modelling were developed at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, HIIT, a joint research institute of Aalto University and the University of Helsinki in Finland. On the basis the research at HIIT, the company Etsimo was founded to commercialise the search engine, which is focused on supporting complicated searches.

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