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Hakia search!

12 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/hakia-search.54325/

koolbluez
koolbluez Original post #1
Apr 6, 2007 at 10:27 AM
*www.hakia.com/images/logo13.gif
A promising Google competitor... That's what Hakia is seen as. The first meaning-based search engine; Hakia, which is a "meaning-based" search engine startup getting a bit of buzz. A venture-backed, multi-national team company headquartered in New York, it was launched its beta in early November last month, but already ranks around 33K on Alexa - which is impressive. A metadata SE.. a natural language search engine (an NLP)... other titles given to this SE.

The user interface is similar to Google, but the engine prompts you to enter not just keywords - but a question, a phrase, or a sentence.

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Ankur Gupta
Ankur Gupta #2
Apr 8, 2007 at 5:41 PM
^^I dont think so...
It will take a good search engine(if there exits any) another 2 years atleast to overtake google and be termed as better...
prateek_san
prateek_san #3
Apr 8, 2007 at 6:03 PM
it wont be easy for Hakia........it has to real good to give Google a Competition
gaurav_indian
gaurav_indian #4
Apr 8, 2007 at 6:05 PM
nokia ka hakia bana diya.:D
koolbluez
koolbluez #5
Apr 8, 2007 at 6:05 PM
didja guyz use it.. yet... it's interesting.. good results...
gaurav_indian
gaurav_indian #6
Apr 8, 2007 at 6:07 PM
^^ Yeah i have used it.Its impressive.
Pathik
Pathik #7
Apr 8, 2007 at 7:56 PM
its ok... not as powerful as google...
gagan007
gagan007 #8
Apr 9, 2007 at 11:52 AM
very long time ago i posted a thread with link to a search portal like this
Code: 
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32341

all these search portals come and go...google is here to stay...it will need a paradigm to replace google i guess

anyways hakia is good...i mean the search results were too many as compared to google....i tried with my own name ;)
piyush gupta
piyush gupta #9
Apr 10, 2007 at 10:01 AM
Not gud for me

i tried piyush's space

It even doesn't show my blog

in google first 3 entries are my blog :(
csczero
csczero #10
Apr 10, 2007 at 10:35 AM
yup room from vast improvement not as strong as google
joey_182
joey_182 #11
Apr 10, 2007 at 10:59 AM
ya...not as good...
koolbluez
koolbluez #12
Apr 10, 2007 at 11:02 AM
Well.. KoolBluez gave me some pretty good results.. @least the 1st 2 r me only :D
It also made me realize that someone actually digged(well actually it's TalkDigged) my site :D