I was digging through my bloglines bookmarks today and found this old (for a blog) post on the Red/WriteWeb written by Nitin Karandikar, author of the Software Abstractions blog.
The post, entitled Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Google, provides a great round-up of recent search innovations. It was posted in May. I’m guess I’m better late than never in sharing it.
Here’s the summarized list:
- Natural language processing
- Personal relevance
- Canned, specialized searches
- New content types
- Restricted data sources
- Domain-specific search (aka, vertical search)
- Parametric search
- Social input
- Human input
- Semantic search
- Discovery support
- Classification, tag clouds, and clustering
- Results visualization
- Results refinement and filters
- Results platforms
- Related services
- Search agent
