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Abika is an
Interactive Search Engine. How does Interactive Search work? |
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Abika.com is an interactive computer
service that helps search information by connecting searchers to
search guides who are knowledgeable about the searches you are
looking for. By selecting specific search queries you search
with help of the Search Guide who listed the search query and is
knowledgeable about your search and can help you with what you
seek. For most conventional search engines
like Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista and MSN Search the
searches are conducted automatically by a computer program
(algorithm) that searches websites and internet data, while in
the Abika.com model, searches are conducted through people and
by people. Conventional search engines crawl the web and create
an index of web pages and data that is on computers while
Abika.com creates an index of people who
are skilled searchers or have knowledge of other people. The
index includes results of crawling the internet and submission
of listings by researchers. The
amount of information that people know about other people is
much greater than the amount of information stored on all the
world's computers and databases combined. However Person to Person search
also has the disadvantage that each search result is a lot more
expensive than results returned using conventional search
technologies. Person to Person search involves people and computers
and adapts useful features of both
the client server and peer to peer search engine technologies.
Any deduced search results are
compiled through a continuous interaction and overlapping of
induction and deduction, of available data, theoretical
hypotheses, pattern analysis and empirical evidence. The
emerging field of induction and deduction is the basis of a few primetime
hit shows on CBS such as "Criminal Minds" and "Numbers".
In today's information age there is a
glut of information and everyone can see
and has access to a lot of information,
however what is more important is
noticing what one sees and reasoning
from what one sees.Following section introduces you to the concept of a search
engine and explain how conventional client-server based search
engines work. The internet consists of literally billions of web pages, spread across
thousands and thousands of servers all over the world. Search
engines exist to sort this information and find the specific
information that you seek.
Search engines generally use
special software called crawlers or spiders that scan around the
internet automatically finding hyperlinks and following them
from one web page to the next and extracting important
information from them. Search engines then use this information
to compile a database that has an index which correlates keywords to
the specific location of the information such as web pages,
images and files. All search engines start from a few web pages
specified manually by humans. From these pages they start
following the hyperlinks from one page to another. This
leaves a very large portion of the web that has no hyper linking
completely invisible. Search engines like Google or MSN search
have a massive database of more than 8 billion pages. When
someone enters a query into the search box of a search engine
their input searches the occurrences of those keywords and then
the subsequent web page in the order it was ranked by the
ranking algorithm. These ranking algorithms are unique to each
search engine. Search engines rank pages according to their own
formulas. However ranks are usually assigned based on the
statistical weighted averages of a number of relevance scores
which can be derived from factors such as the number of times
the word occurs in a page, what words are used in the page
title, meta tags and so on. Search engines do not actually
search the internet directly. When you search something on a
search engine you are actually searching the database created by
the search engine that has a snapshot of the internet. So while current search engines are
ok for day to day searching, they still have many disadvantages.
They are very expensive to design, implement and maintain and
they do not search the internet in real time. They also do not
enable you to find the vast information that is not within the
reach of their crawlers. They can only search information that
is on servers and computers and the rate at which the internet
changes just makes the problem more complex. With present
technology it is nearly impossible for a centralized search
engine to index information of the internet in real time and
therefore return the most current or relevant search result. |
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Click here to view the dynamic
list of some of the researchers. These are independent
researchers and Abika does not know how they do the research.
Abika notifies researchers who provide non-internet research to
only fulfill the search request if they can conduct the research
in compliance with Federal, State or Local Laws. Your order
information including any messages and search results are
generally deleted from Abika.com's servers after six months of
inactivity. |
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