Today ManagedQ opened up their search engine application, which features a nice user interface (UI) with snapshots, instead of the usual text based search engines, to show your search results. With every search you will also get executive summaries, which will include information from your results on the most popular people, places and things.
According to their site:
ManagedQ packages the power of Natural Language Processing into a stunning Interface while running on top of your favorite Search engine. Now, that same high quality result set comes with an Executive Summary on the left, visual previews on the right, and instant explorability through find-as-you-type, client-side Regular Expressions.
Speed, Power, and Grace with no switching costs. Start using ManagedQ today and discover a new Search experience.
Obviously, due to using snapshots instead of only text, the search results load slower than Google and Yahoo; however, I personally like looking at the snapshots. I mean, “What you see is what you get.” So, if you get bored searching through Google or Yahoo, and would like to try a search engine application that is a little more tech savvy and offers a little more with its results, then go check out ManagedQ.
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February 5, 2008
I tried this out after your reading article and it ROCKS!!! The Executive Summary was incredibly useful for getting a broad overview of my search, but the real kicker was when I moused over the “Ideas” in the executive summary. They instantly search the results and give you a preview.
These guys have a real chance at taking a few points out of the search market in the near term. Maybe Microsoft should be buying them!
February 5, 2008
This search engine is really awesome - the article doesn’t give it enough credit. It’s definitely has more than just “a little more” - you can actually EXPLORE your search results from the results page by keyword or using the Ideas in the executive summary on the left. It’s really making my searching much more efficient already.
February 5, 2008
UI is awesome. The person, place, thing “summaries” are very useful for the type of searches I use for work. I’m interested to see what kind of traffic these guys get. Brings up the question of why Google/Yahoo use the same decade-old UI.
@Mikhail
I just recently heard about this search engine so I haven’t had a chance to fully explore what all it can do. However, I have been very impressed with it since I started using it a couple of days ago.
Thanks for the comments guys.
Wow, this engine is very cool. I really like the approach they’ve taken in terms of presenting data visually, highlighting, tagging — just started to look at it and use it…
February 12, 2008
This is the best thing I’ve seen form the alt search startup world in years. What’s not mentioned is that they are leveraging natural language processing on top of the google results. (exe. sums, regular expressions) So the switching costs from Google is zero, but the leverage for exploring is awesome. Very cool stuff.
@JacktheTechguy
I wasn’t aware they were leveraging natural language processing. I am going to go look in to that. Thanks for the info.
I have heard that this website is wonderful, but after visiting it I’ll disagree with most of the people, who think so. Yes, there is some fresh and interesting information but most of it looks unprsentable. There are so many ways to check information, haven’t you heard of it? After trying it several times I realized, that it’s not unique.
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