---
title: "Poll: Search Innovation"
date: 2007-05-07
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2007"
    url: "/tag/2007.md"
---

# Poll: Search Innovation

Today we published [a detailed analysis of search innovation techniques](https://web.archive.org/web/20110519163415/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_17_search_innovations.php) by Nitin Karandikar. The post is long, but well worth reading if you are interested in where search is headed. To complement the post, we’re running a poll asking which of the 4 categories of search innovation that Nitin identified, do *you* think is key to the next generation of search? The 4 categories are:

- Query pre-processing, to try to divine the user’s intent (e.g. Hakia, Collarity, Powerset)
- Enhancements to the underlying data sources (e.g. Retrevo, Rollyo, SearchMash)
- Improving the underlying search algorithms (e.g. Indeed, Spock, Riya)
- Results visualization and post-processing (e.g. Zilloa, Quintura, Trulia)

Here is the poll:

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/poll_search_innovation.php))*