Better search the Internet with Google, Bing and WolframAlpha

New analytical systems, new interfaces in recent months, the news search engines has been rich. Here is what has and what will change.

Without them, the Internet would be a huge treasure hunt without a true starting point. Certainly, we could always go through "portals", somewhat similar to Internet directories. But this would still be very uncomfortable. It must admit that we simply can no longer do without search engines. The greatest among them is Google.

Near-synonymous with the Internet, it became more than 90% of world population, the number one web surfer. Just look at the panic that seizes the Web where, for a moment, Google has missed. Since January 31, 2009, when the site has, for almost an hour, all sites classified as potentially hazardous and secure links to them.

Today, Google is a reflex that even if they know the address of a site, users are accustomed to enter his name in the search rather than typing the address directly in the browser. Do not you do well to visit the station, for example? We are accustomed to the litany of blue links that appear in response to our research, and whose presentation has changed little over ten years, ie since the launch of Google in 1998.

A completely different approach :
And yet ... The world of search engines is agitated in recent months. New players are emerging. Firstly, Microsoft, trying to recover some percentage of market share it has never managed to achieve with its old engine, Live Search. But also new arrivals, more strange, as WolframAlpha. Others too, such as Yahoo, trying to reposition themselves.

To support their own engine, they attempt to revolutionize the very concept of the engine by asking a simple question: do people really want to get something on the Internet? Or rather, when users search the Net, looking really sites?

Microsoft responds clearly not. For the software giant, most people want facts and that helps them make decisions. They rarely want to find sites. At Yahoo, we express it differently, speaking of the "death of the ten blue links", these ten links are now classic response to a search. In other words, it does not look that people want, but find. Responses should be better adapted, and immediately complete. When you enter the name of your city and the name of another city, chances are that you're looking for schedules of trains or planes. Would it not evil from the search engine you see right away this information? Welcome to the world of "decision engines" in the terminology chosen by Microsoft.

Another major change underway in the research, the pursuit of immediacy: the Internet is constantly changing. The information is increasingly delivered in real time, through systems like Twitter, which allows you to send comments to 140 characters. Bing, the search engine of Microsoft, has just begun to index live reviews of personalities, while Google is preparing to integrate its search engine news.

The site is far from over, but it gives an overview of changes expected in the coming months