Beta Watch

Hakia, SpaceTime, and Pownce

By Ed Albro


Hakia: Search With Less Scrolling

When Google serves your search results, it highlights the places where your search terms appear. Hakia, a new search engine in public beta, tries to make the highlighting experience better in two ways. Hakia's developers say the engine looks not just for the words in your query, but for the meaning; it also tries to match your query with phrases on the sites it finds that match that meaning. And if you use the service's Internet Explorer plug-in (a Firefox plug-in is due in October), it'll scroll to exactly the portion of the page that contains your phrase. ...

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