Blinkx, a simple mouseover for results, but nice.

I recently just went to the Blinkx search engine site and did a search and I was pleased with what I found. I saw that they had good search results, but they had an interesting way of displaying them. What they do is give you the first page of search engine results plus five other pages numerically listed at the top. As you mouse over any of those numbers one through five, it shows the results from each of those pages in a flash. I know it's really not a big deal, but it makes looking through the first five pages of the search much, much easier. That's something I like. These days most search engines are just one page and then you have to go to each individual page, this is much more efficient. By just mousing over the numbers you get a quick result. How nice is that? They also have good search results that are very relevant and that search engine is one of the ones to watch for the future. All search engines eventually will have a better navigation of the first several pages I would guess. Just like meta search engines have multiple results from many different places, this also gives you quick results. I think that's what people really want in the future in their search engine results along with clustering of different search ideas related to what you're looking for. It's interesting to see what other entities are coming up with to make search easier. When you look at Google or Yahoo or even MSN, you don't get that kind of simplicity. I imagine that will change for them as well in the future when they see people are looking for a simpler and quicker result.

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Clusty asks, why cluster?

Some of the search engine results that you'll find in the future will reflect something called clustering. Clusty is a search engine that does just that and it's a really good search engine. It clusters results in groups and makes the search a more organized thing. It's also more natural for how we look at things in the world, we tend to put things into groups or categories even in our minds. We don't list things in our heads like some search engines do, we tend to categorize things in our life. If we didn't do that, we would have a harder time making sense of our world as if that wasn't difficult already! So this page that Clusty offers this explanation of why search engine clustering is a good thing. You might want to try to search engine for a while, it's good and it does make it easier to find what you're looking for.

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Yahoo changes in the algorithm.

I've seen some articles on some postings that Yahoo is changing its search algorithm. This is obviously good for some people and bad for others depending on which side of the change you are on. My opinion is that it doesn't matter that much as long as the changes reflect better relevancy. Each search engine is in the the change business right now as they are trying to get a leg up on competition. They make changes to the algorithm because they believe that they will get some more relevancy and screen out some of the bad things that happen when people try to manipulate rankings. They will all make changes on a regular basis in order to combat that kind of behavior. I'm not talking about people that do legitimate web site upgrading, I'm talking about people that spam search engines. So Yahoo like all the other search engines, will change things from time to time in order to keep their content fresh and relevant. Google does it too, so does MSN and some of the lesser search engines, although you don't hear much news about those because there's not as much riding on it. It's interesting to watch the changes and see how things are affected. Yahoo will continue to be an aggressive search engine in its quest to get more market share away from Google. It's an intense competition and there seems to be no end in sight. In fact, the search engine battle is still in its infancy and these companies are fighting for what will happen over the next 20 years.
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Google and privacy concerns

If you ever wonder about privacy concerns on the Internet, this article will get you wondering even more. With so much information about people being available online, you know that somebody, someday he is going to get their hand into the cookie jar and then there's going to be problems. There is no way to know how far privacy violations are going to go, but it's good to take certain steps yourself in order to maintain privacy. You shouldn't be giving out personal information or documents that contain personal information that you don't want others to see. Because these days they are going to be spidered by search engines if they're posted it in one form or another. Unfortunately, we seem to be in the infancy of all this information gathering and there isn't many great tools in place to protect us. Of course you can use things like encryption programs and the like, but you have to keep track of all your personal information much more closely. It's like anything of value that you have. You wouldn't put your wallet or your credit card numbers online would you? If you wouldn't, then it only makes sense to care for your personal information as well.

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Grokker is a good clustering search tool.

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, Grokker is a nice tool to visually see the results from your searches. If clusters the search results as some of the other search engines have started to do. If you've ever gone to Clusty.com, you will see a similar type of result. What I like about the Grokker tool is that it's very easy to drill down into the results you want and presents them in a nice way. It gives a lot of flexibility with the results to see what you want to see. When you drill down to the ultimate result you want, you will see a sidebar page which will give you that web site in a thumbnail version which you can click on to go to it. It's a helpful tool which will give people the option to see things in that context of groupings rather than just raw listings. I think this is a trend for the future to cluster results into logical groups. Right now, when people are searching the lists are endless and a little bit confusing. By clustering them together, people can get the information they need in a specific area which will give them more of the results that they would want. Before, all you could do was go through pages and pages of results, but now you can get clustered results and that should give better direction to people doing a search.

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No control over video content at Google?

It looks as though the Google video search has yielded some copyright violations. Evidently there's been many movies and TV shows that should not be there that have been uploaded. It looks as though some of those have been removed. But the question remains, how is Google going to police this so copyright violations don't occur again? This is the big problem with all sorts of material that is going to be coming online including video, copyrighted text, you name it. Because searches so effective, people will be demanding this kind of thing in the future. So the need for digital property rights is going to be on the increase. Along with security, this will be one of the necessities in the future. Microsoft has gone a long way with digital rights management but there needs to be more done to make sure that this can't be done. I don't know how anybody's going to get this done because people can make video into almost any format that would not be trackable. Will they just have to come down on people with legal action? Is that the only way to get this done? Meanwhile, video on the Internet will continue to be a problem as long as there are people willing to pirate content. It's nobody's fault, and it's certainly not Google's, it's just the low state of people's morals.

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