I already posted the link to RoboCrunch, a new “semantic” searchengine in the Breakfast Links. I took some time this evening to check out RoboCrunch and the company behind it, Linguistic Agents.
Linguistic Agents released a Press Release about RoboCrunch you can read here. Beside a really short introduction to RoboCrunch, the most interesting part about the Press Release was the following sentence:
“Just try typing “I’m looking for more information about France” in RoboCrunch and in any one of other Search Engines”, says Sasson Margaliot, Founder and CEO of Linguistic Agents, “in any search engine – semantic or regular, old or new”.
I really appreciated this “task”, because with this hint they made it really interesting to check out the search results from RoboCrunch and Google, Yahoo, MSN and co. (+1)
Following the task to compare search engines with RoboCrunch I immediatley went to www.robocrunch.com, but instead of new ways on how to present a search interface I saw an experimental really plain search interface. (-1)
RoboCrunch, really plain search interface
After typing the human written search query “I’m looking for more information about France” I got a nice search result full of travel and general information on France. Absolutely what I expected. (+1)
Nice search result, again really plain visualization
Put the same question into Google and … what do you think what I got? As I expected, a lot of sites containing the phrase “I’m looking for more information”, and the term “france”. Not even one information about France! (-1 for google, +1 for RoboCrunch)
Search result on Google, not even one relevant hit
Nice demonstration! But if you think about it, do you think this example is really comparable? In my opinion, no! Google is based and specialized on term queries, RoboCrunch tries to adress the processing of phrase queries. If you’re speaking in the right Google language you will get a proper result, try it.
I’m going to check some more queries out later and present the result to you tommorrow!
