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hakia is under development to provide unique benefits which are the by-product of its semantic technology,
an advanced approach compared to statistical popularity methods.
The users will benefit from hakia quality search in three ways:
- Search with Focus and Save Time: hakia offers quality results for any given
query in a tabbed format to provide a transparent organization.
The first tab – "All Results" – provides a three-column overview of the Web results,
including results from hakia Credible Sites, images and news, if available.
Searchers can quickly focus on what they are looking for and save time.
- Easily Identify Information from Credible Sites: Trusted results come from
credible sites
that are referenced and vetted by librarians and information professionals.
Searchers can now distinguish credible Web sites from popular ones without extensive research on a given topic.
- Reach Unique Information: hakia's semantic search can bring results to unique, personal,
and complex queries that are unreachable by popularity methods due to the limitations of statistics
i.e. the long tail challenge.
SEARCH WITH FOCUS, LESS CLUTTER
hakia offers a new search experience that aspires to introduce focus, clarity and credibility to Web search.
Users will find that hakia search results go beyond the standard 10 blue links and are presented in a tabbed format.
For any given query, the first tab – "All Results" – provides a three-column overview of the Web results,
including results from hakia Credible Sites, images and news, if available. The right-most column is reserved for ads,
in order to provide a clear, unbiased presentation; the goal is to reduce clutter that blurs focus from the search.
The remaining tabs break out results even further, so that users can filter depending on what they are
looking for – credible sites, news and images. The last tab, "Meet Others," allows users to access hakia’s
innovative social networking capability where users can meet others when they search for the same or similar information.
LIFE IS NOT A POPULARITY CONTEST – WHY SHOULD YOUR SEARCH BE?
A popular Web site may not always be credible, and a credible Web site may not always be popular.
hakia is the first search engine to introduce a transparent definition of "credible Web sites"
and to offer the first-ever search experience to clearly mark search results from credible sites by librarians’
contributions - as shown below. This feature provides unprecedented transparency and assists the searcher in evaluation of information.
hakia’s coverage of Credible Sites is currently limited to health and medical Web sources.
Librarians and information professionals are continuously suggesting new Web sources that will be rendered to hakia Credible Sites.
HAKIA GALLERIES SAVE YOU TIME: GET 10 SEARCHES WITH 1 QUERY
For shorter and popular queries, hakia generates a page of categorized results, known as Galleries.
hakia Galleries provide a balanced presentation for any given query, by generating results for various aspects of the search term,
rather than just 10 blue links. For example, a search for "Madonna"
will categorize results in areas such as images, blogs and fan sites, lyrics, myths and controversies and more.
This presentation is equivalent to conducting 10 searches on other Web sites
You can now surf the hakia Galleries at gallery.hakia.com.
NEED AN ANSWER: MEET OTHERS WHO HAVE THE ANSWERS
For the same query, hakia offers a separate platform to meet other people with similar interests.
This opt-in, social networking function allows users to contact each other and exchange information.
ENJOY ENHANCED VISIBILITY IN MOBILE SEARCH
hakia's uninterrupted search snippets, sentence highlighting, and meaning-based relevancy enhance the utility of mobile search.
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