Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Preview Seek Promises Best Search Engine

UK's Preview Seek Limited announced yesterday in a press release I caught on prweb.com, http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/8/prweb267734.htm that they had just launched their top secret search engine, PreviewSeek.com on August 1. The company alleges that the new search engine promises to be the "world's most advanced search engine." Furthermore, they are proud of the fact that this project has been apparently kept under "stealth development."

Why the secrecy? In the world of search engines with so many grasping at the newest algorithms and wondering who will spearhead the next era in internet search, it's no surprise a company who claims to have developed a search engine capable of distinguishing nuances of word meaning, would want to keep it secret. At the very least, it makes for great advertising.

PreviewSeek.com is still currently in beta form, http://beta.previewseek.com. The company says their new product features "proprietary artificial intelligence and collaborative filtering algorithms" that give it that ability to distinguish nuances in search queries.

In my very brief tinkering with it, the interface is clean and fresh. Search results are clearly indexed by page title tags. Good argument for beefing up those title tags.