Halloween 2.0: How Web Companies Trick and Treat

By April Joyner

...Semantic search engine Hakia has created "galleries" for popular search terms, including "Halloween" and holiday-related words. The Hakia Galleries build upon the search engine's claim to deliver more relevant results than keyword-based engines such as Google by offering, according to COO Melek Pulatkonak, "10 searches in one." A search for "Halloween," for instance, not only brings up Halloween-related pages; it automatically organizes the results into categories like "origin of the holiday," "stories and literature," "holiday music," and "news and blogs."...

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