I've not seen the idea of 'vertical search' used outside of the chit-
chat of startups looking for a way to be a mini-google[1]. Better
yet! Making an acquisition target[2] for ya-goo-msoft-bay-zon.
All the way on the other end of the spectrum you the memes about
personal software agents. How we will all have bots skittering about
the net. I assume some of those will be run on our dime while others
will be run by intermediaries in exchange for our love, attention and/
or money.
It's getting easier to do this stuff. In part simile et. al. is
about accelerating that trend.
I've been noticing some signs that web sites are getting tetchy[3]
about this. Some of my acquaintances have taken to excluding all
bots but google's.
- ben
[1] kayak.com seems like a success at that.
[2] pubsub.com is a possible example.
[3]
http://incredibill.blogspot.com/2005/12/great-anti-scrape-off.html
On Jan 5, 2006, at 8:06 AM, David Huynh wrote:
> As far as I know, we didn't set out to focus on any particular
> vertical space. However, you can potentially customize our software
> for a vertical space. You could consider our Longwell 1.x demo here
> as such a customization:
> http://simile.mit.edu/longwell/demo/tr/longwell
>
> David
>
>
> ilango gurusamy wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I think the following links explain what "vertical search" means.
>> I thought it was a better way to explain it.
>>
>> http://www.eleganthack.com/archives/the_future_of_vertical_search.php
>>
>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1869592,00.asp
>>
>> Basically a vertical search engine is also called a topical search
>> engine, which would enable us to look for pages or links in a
>> specific domain.
>>
>>
>> ilango
>>
>> */David Huynh <dfhuynh_at_csail.mit.edu>/* wrote:
>>
>> What did you mean by vertical search?
>>
>> David
>>
>> ilango wrote:
>>
>> > Hi everybody
>> > I was interested in studying this fascinating application from
>> MIT. I
>> > was wondering if Simile is like a vertical search engine. Or
>> does
>> > Simile also possess vertical search capabilities.
>> >
>> > I am a newbie to this subject, and I beg to be pardoned for
>> asking a
>> > naive question.
>> >
>> > thanks
>> > ilango
>>
>>
>>
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