Hi all
I have been using a search engine called Hakia which often returns more relevant
than and superior to Google. I discovered several articles on Pardus that Google had failed to return after several different queries.
The beauty of the engine is that it searches for 'meaning'. As stated on the web
site: "indexing has severe limitations to handle full-scale semantic search".
A query on a set of words on Google returns exact matches on those words.
Hakia will find variations of the words that have the same or similar meaning.
So a sentence that has the word "kill" for example, which has meanings specific to
its context will return queries that include VETO, BLOCKED, TERMINATED and so on
that are relevant to the search. The query may be "what new resolutions has the
house killed?". Words like BILL may be used in the same context of resolution and
thus may be returned, leading to additional relevant documents.
The benefit is that on Google, you would have had to run a query per each word you wanted results on. Here you have one query versus 5 or 6 or more.
I wrote the short .xml script below that you can copy into a text editor, save it into
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins
on Windows as hakia.xml or in
/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins
as hakia.xml to have it be part of Firefox's seach engines in the search bar.
I typically use Scroogle and Hakia nowadays.
The only oddity is that on Pardus the logo doesn't show up, while on XP it does.
Regards
Lloyd
-------
<SearchPlugin xmlns="
http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>Hakia Search</ShortName>
<Description>Search for meaning</Description>
<InputEncoding>utf-8</InputEncoding>
<Image width="16" height="16">data:image/x-icon;base64,http://hakia.com/images/hakialogo.jpg</Image>
<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="
http://hakia.com/search.aspx">
<Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
</Url>
<SearchForm>
http://www.hakia.com/</SearchForm>
</SearchPlugin>
Author