Comments on: Bridging the Information Gap With Search http://searchdoneright.com/2009/08/bridging-the-information-gap-with-search/ Enterprise Search Expertise, Brought To You By Vivísimo Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:31:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rahul http://searchdoneright.com/2009/08/bridging-the-information-gap-with-search/comment-page-1/#comment-56989 Rahul Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:49:29 +0000 http://searchdoneright.com/?p=400#comment-56989 Santosh, a nice article. Here in India, we already have a portal (http://www.openjgate.com which has 5935 Open-Access Journals which includes 3417 Peer-Reviewed (scholarly) journals accessible to everyone in the world. The first two problems as mention by Tushneem cannot be addressed unless we have a search engine which can indexed more faster rate than the information is published. Relevancy cannot be achieved with free search, as noise will always be more. Santosh, a nice article. Here in India, we already have a portal (http://www.openjgate.com which has 5935 Open-Access Journals which includes 3417 Peer-Reviewed (scholarly) journals accessible to everyone in the world.

The first two problems as mention by Tushneem cannot be addressed unless we have a search engine which can indexed more faster rate than the information is published.
Relevancy cannot be achieved with free search, as noise will always be more.

]]> By: Tushneem http://searchdoneright.com/2009/08/bridging-the-information-gap-with-search/comment-page-1/#comment-56504 Tushneem Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:00:45 +0000 http://searchdoneright.com/?p=400#comment-56504 Santosh, good article. In my view, there are 3 problems that have to be addressed before masses in the developing world can really take advantage of search. 1. Information: As you rightly mentioned we have to catalog and index everything. 2. Relevance: Need to increase the relevance of search. Despite the progress search has made, it has not been perfected yet. Context based search is a big challenge. 3. Accessibility: Provide more channels for people to access. The best example is enabling search through SMS on mobile phones. In countries like India/China the penetration of mobile is more than PCs. However, 1 and 2 above need to be solved first so that the 140 - 160 character results really make sense. Since the delivery channel is mobile, location and some context can be exploited for improving 2 i.e. relevance. Not sure about Vivismo but Google is already working on it in several countries. (Here is their India site - http://bit.ly/13cGpe) Santosh, good article. In my view, there are 3 problems that have to be addressed before masses in the developing world can really take advantage of search.
1. Information: As you rightly mentioned we have to catalog and index everything.
2. Relevance: Need to increase the relevance of search. Despite the progress search has made, it has not been perfected yet. Context based search is a big challenge.
3. Accessibility: Provide more channels for people to access. The best example is enabling search through SMS on mobile phones. In countries like India/China the penetration of mobile is more than PCs. However, 1 and 2 above need to be solved first so that the 140 – 160 character results really make sense. Since the delivery channel is mobile, location and some context can be exploited for improving 2 i.e. relevance. Not sure about Vivismo but Google is already working on it in several countries. (Here is their India site – http://bit.ly/13cGpe)

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