The size of the Web continues to increase in breadth and depth. So how do you SEARCH for a needle in this haystack? How do you eliminate the spam and how do you avoid the results that don't seem particularly relevant?
The fact is that we are still using the traditional ways of searching. We don't really use specific search terms and also search engines don't provide intuitive means of refining searches.
One of our teams was working on creating a tool that attempts to solve this problem. We have one ready now and it's on our Labs page. It's called the Search Radar and it is just the tool that lets you refine your search query and get relevant search results.
Try it out and send us your feedback. Your comments and suggestions will help us make it better.
Here's an interesting example for searching "Gandhi" using a search engine and refining with Search Radar:
- Using simple search for "Gandhi" -- gives many diverse results including the movie made on him
- Using the Search Radar for "Gandhi" -- gives a tag cloud like view of refined search terms with the more relevant terms made big and bold
- Refining and using "Mahatma Gandhi" Instead -- got more relevant results than just using "Gandhi"
- Further refining for Satyagraha -- (suddenly felt the urge to read about the principle)
