Six Secrets of Highly Successful Alternative Search Engines! Nitin Karandikar ...Thought Leadership - Hakia Hakia is a new, general-purpose search engine that has been leading a discussion on Semantic Search within the Internet Search community. Apart from thoughtful posts on the corporate blog, Hakia has an ongoing discussion going on at a special community site: Search for Better Search. Key members of the Hakia leadership team also engage the community on the theory and challenges of semantic search. While this does not directly influence user traffic, it generates plenty of buzz within the blogerati, whose influence on the community at large continues to grow. ... Posted at: http://www.altsearchengines.com/2007/06/07/six-secrets-of-highly-successful-alts/