Briefs

Jul. 31, 2009 (10:16 am) By: Matthew Humphries

There has been a couple of high profile search engines join the market recently. First there was Wolfram Alpha and then there was Microsoft�s Bing. But if you thought the search market was too crowded as it is make way for yet another search engine called Yebol.

Yebol.com uses semantic search tech based on a neural network, some patented algorithms, and an "associative memory model" to produce its results. Where Yebol claims it is different is in the way it organizes search queries. Instead of just listing them it categorizes them and forms clusters apparently making for accurate search results and related subjects.

Results are shown on a simple page with the main links in the center of the screen. To the left and right boxes appear depending on what search term you used. Those boxes include categories, images, videos, related topics, and top site recommendations based on the query, but within the remit of the term, for example, searching for Yahoo! would list Yahoo�s top sites. At the moment Yebol only queries 10 million search terms, but hopes to have all possible terms available within 6 months.

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