Can new search engine 'SciNet' outsmart Google?

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Google is a renowned organization as it always wants to do something different for users. Researchers claim to have developed a new search engine that outperforms current ones, and helps people to do searches more efficiently. The SciNet search engine, developed by researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT. It is different because it changes internet searches into recognition tasks, by showing keywords related to the user's search in topic radar. 

People using SciNet can 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. Once initially queried, SciNet displays a range of keywords and topics in a topic radar. With the help of the directions on the radar, the engine displays how these topics are related to each other. The search engine also offers alternatives that are connected with the topic, but which the user might not have thought of querying. By moving words around the topic radar, users specify what information is most useful for them. When people are uncertain about a topic, they are typically reluctant to reformulate the original query, even if they need to in order to find the right information, researchers said. With the help of a keyword cloud, people can more quickly infer which of the search options they receive is more significant for them because they do not need to visit the pages offered by the search engine to find new search words and start again. It's easier for people to recognize what information they want from the options offered by the SciNet search engine than it is to type it themselves, according to the project's coordinator, TuukkaRuotsalo.

                                                   

There are several other browsers like Vivaldi,Duck Duck Go and  Qwant  who are trying get a piece of the market completely dominated by Google. This comes as a good news for the public as it gives them several more options and hopefully even more new features to experience.

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Vivaldi, a new Web browser for tech savvy users

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From the sources of media ,Veteran software maker Jon von Tetzchner launched a new Internet browser on Tuesday, offering an interface for high-volume users who "have problems fitting all their open tabs on one screen", he said in a Reuters interview.

Known as Vivaldi and available on desktop computers from Tuesday, the browser's initial launch covers the Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. "A mobile phone and a tablet version are in the pipeline. We are working on it, but they won't be out until they're ready," said von Tetzchner.

With features like personalized notes, bookmarks with small screen shots and speed dials with options for multiple groups and folders, Vivaldi hopes to attract high-volume users.

There are several other browsers like Duck Duck Go and  Qwant  who are trying get a piece of the market completely dominated by Google. This comes as a good news for the public as it gives them several more options and hopefully even more new features to experience.

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Duck Duck Go .. it's not a typo !

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The title tells us a lot .. well it doesn't really ! If one wants to make a guess a restaurant that serves Duck for take away might be your guess. But it isn't so. If looking at the current market trend one makes a guess that it an IT company or something related to the technology then you are spot on ! So the question now is .. What is Duck Duck Go ?

DuckDuckGo (DDG) is an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by deliberately showing all users the same search results for a given search term.DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg, an entrepreneur whose last venture,The names Database was acquired by United Online in 2006 for $10 million. 

In July 2010, Weinberg started a DuckDuckGo community website to allow the public to report problems, discuss means of spreading the use of the search engine, request features, and discuss open sourcing the code. By May 2012, the search engine was attracting 1.5 million searches a day. Weinberg reported that it had earnedUS$115,000 in revenue in 2011 and had three employees, plus a small number of contractors.Compete.com estimated 277,512 monthly visitors to the site in August 2012.^[On April 12, 2011, Alexa reported a 3-month growth rate of 51%.

In May 2014, DuckDuckGo released a redesigned version to beta testers through DuckDuckHack. On 21 May 2014, DuckDuckGo officially released the redesigned version that focused on smarter answers and a more refined look. The new version added many new features such as images, local search, auto-suggest, weather, recipes and more.

Google enjoys a lot of the market supremacy when it comes to search engines. Small players like Qwant or DDG coming into the market and gunning for Google. This will lead to some stiff competition that will prove beneficial for the public.

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"Qwant an Alternative Google"

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A company from a small office near the banks of the river Seine has put on gloves and will try to take on Google. The product is a French search engine called #Qwant. The French start-up, whose product was released 18 months ago, is tapping into growing anger here that Google has too much control over how Europeans surf the web.

“There’s a need for a choice,” Jean Manuel Rozan, a former financier who co-founded #Qwant in 2011, said recently over a cup of coffee. Europe is the only place in the world where people think that Google is the Internet. To stand out from the crowd, Qwant sold a 20 percent stake to Axel Springer, the German publisher, this year for roughly $6 million, mostly to buy European servers.

Along with other Google alternatives like #DuckDuckGo and #Ixquick, a Dutch search engine, Qwant says it does not track people’s online movements and sells advertising based only on individuals’ search queries.
Qwant also plans to release a child-friendly search engine — Qwant Junior — in early 2015.

If you have three million children who will search on Qwant, then there’ll be six million parents who will know about Qwant, said Éric Leandri, another of the start-up’s co-founders, who added that the start-up was in discussions with Axel Springer to become the default search engine on some of the publisher’s websites.

Despite previous failures to a build a credible European search engine, Qwant’s co-founders hope its focus on privacy and attempts to combine social media posts and traditional search results will set it apart from Google, whose projects are as diverse as a smartphone operating system and trying to develop driverless cars.

We want to give results from both the web and social networks,” said Mr. Rozan of Qwant. “If we’re just going to offer the same service as Google, we should stop now.

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