ePrecis - a new search technology comes of age.

In the search for a better search, a new player has emerged. The fledgeling ePrecis has devised a new search technology that provides a different and possibly more user friendly output to the searcher.

The search technology is dubbed “semantic search” and according to Amy Wohl’s blog article uses pattern matching to produce refined searches.

The output is similar in appearance to a Google Search - with the exception that the returned results are fewer - which is purposeful - and also that an abstract (otherwise known as a precis)
of the returned URL is provided.

ePrecis currently is a free search engine with no sponsorship or advertising but other search engines may start looking with interest.

Personally, I liked this. I liked to be able to see more of what I’m getting before I take the plunge into a site. I can read 5 or 6 abstracts and and search on 1 page for the most relevant to my search.

As an example - I searched for Vitamin B3 and eprecis returned some very nice results. Try it yourself at ePrecis Search Engine.

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3 Responses to 'ePrecis - a new search technology comes of age.'

  1. Christian Johnson - October 29th, 2005 at 4:03 am

    I took your advice and tried it on some biochemical terms. In each case, it seemed that the more technical the term, the more detail was served. So I got everyone here to start using it. So far so good.

  2. admin - October 29th, 2005 at 8:18 am

    That’s great Christian.

    It’s only in early days yet for ePrecis - still in alpha testing. At present, I’ll be using it in combination with other engines.

    As it develops further - who knows? - it may be the only way to go - especially for certain search requirements.

    Graeme Sprigge

  3. icooltools.com » More about ePrecis - a new search technology making it’s mark - October 29th, 2005 at 2:30 pm

    […] After my original post about ePrecis - ePrecis - a new search technology comes of age I did a little more digging myself into ePrecis. One of the commenters (Ward Johnson) on my original article notified Richard McManus of Zdnet and he himself has done a piece on it. It’s a nice piece and worth a read. […]


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