Zniff clusters
Zniff is a full-text search engine which searches a human indexed portion of the web via the Spurl social bookmarks community…another similar engine is Furl.
Imagine if it could return results in clusters…presenting organised results like others, such as Vivisimo and Clusty.
In this case the results would be clusters by tag (the meta-data describing the item).
Clicking on a tag would show the search results just within that tag…another feature could be to show results within multiple tags by adding them together (as you do in del.icio.us or the add on feature del.icio.us tag search).
A bonus would be if you could then refine your query, by doing another search within the individual tag/s…in a personal Furl account you can search within a folder!
The cluster of tags could be shown as a list on the side of the screen as seen in Vivisimo and Clusty, with a number next to each tag showing you quantity of bookmarks within a tag. Another way of presenting the cluster could be like Technorati tags…it’s a great visual tool, the size of the font denotes the quantity, and the layout shows the comparison of the results.
It would be great if all the social bookmark managers were searchable in one meta-search engine…a type of semantic web, although a spammable web.
Technorati tag search, Tag central, and del.icio.us tag search don’t work the same as Zniff or Furl as they don’t search full-text, they just search for a tag and present the contents within…so they, in effect, jump to the last step.
These folksonomies should exchange notes, as Zniff and Furl could offer a field search for “tags” (like the others) as well as its full-text feature.
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Zniff here
Tagging gaat waarschijnlijk alweer een stap verder met een nieuwe generatie zoekmachines zoals Zniff, die de informatie uit social bookmarks software als Furl en Spurl doorzoeken.
What you see is the very first version of a new breed of search engin…
Trackback by inter-net-viewer.nl — April 10, 2005 @ 5:29 pm
Hi, my name is Hjalmar Gislason, founder of Spurl.net and as such largely responsible for Zniff as well.
I just wanted to touch upon to things. First the spam issue. By using trust ranking systems per user account one it is possible to get a pretty good control on these things. I’ve written somewhat on that on our user forums here:
Spurl.net forums: How to fight spam?
Second issue is more generally about the importance of tags. Although tags are great, I’m pretty sure that what will come out of all the talk about tagging and “folksonomy” will be more emphasis on “relative terms”, i.e. words that are highly relevant for the page, but they don’t have to come from tags, they can also come from users’ descriptions and snips (clippings), text in links on other websites that point to the pages, the text on the page itself and even from the page’s meta tags that may actually see the light again, thanks to the impact of social bookmarking and other similar methods in “validating” the quality of a page.
There’s a little on this here:
Spurl.net forums: Convert subcateogories into tags (at the bottom)
I plan to write more about it this week, to get these thoughts into the discussion.
Comment by Hjalmar Gislason — April 11, 2005 @ 9:45 am
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