A human search engine is a search engine that uses human participation to filter the search results and assist users in clarifying their search request. The goal is to provide users with a limited number of relevant results, as opposed to traditional search engines that often return a large number of results that may or may not be relevant.

Examples of human search engines include Jumper 2.0, Sproose, NiteCo, ChaCha Search, Mahalo.com, and the now defunct NowNow from Amazon.com.

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IMshopping has launched a human powered shopping search site and Twitter shopping service designed to help consumers find niche products on the web It s sort of like a shopping 411 service which human guides on call respond to product questions and provide personalized recommendations for users about what product best suits their needs IMShopping tries to simulate the experience of going into

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the process by taking account of context and the interrelationships between words rather than isolated keywords and how backlinks there are to a site For example Hakia Search Engine Beta Human Edited Search Engines Human edited search engines are being touted as a better system Quality control issues plague current search engines fully automated systems not being able to

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Sat Oct 17 11:28:49 2009

What is a Human search engine? I asked how I could find someone and someone said try a search engine?
Q. But I don't know what one is or how to find one
Asked by Frederic_LeGreat - Mon Jun 2 11:04:30 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Go to Google and type in the person's name in inverted commas. "John Smith" kinda thing. If you add terms like their home town, then you might get better results.
Answered by unknown - Mon Jun 2 11:07:24 2008

Hi Have you ever heard of a Human search engine?
Q. Yes ,Chacha is the one .For more info log on to
Asked by suresh k - Fri Feb 9 01:37:01 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. So are the people from Auto Zone. This guy was able to search for an engine for my 85 Cutlass Supreme. Good man that guy!
Answered by Mr. Sir - Fri Feb 9 01:41:31 2007

where can i find an online book search engine that gives short summaries?
Q. A few years back i was looking for books to read. There was this search engine that had many ready to choose from categories. For example you could choose a main genre and a sub genre, type of characters ex: bad/good alien/human,or relationships between the characters or roughly what they were. Vampire/human, vamp/vamp, magician/robot whether they were PG, R, PG-13, and most important a mini summary was included. For the love of life CANNOT remember that website.Any one know which one I'm talking about? It's not like amazon where you can buy the books and it was a general book search. It wasn't only romance or scifi engine like some websites are.It just listed all the books under the various categories you'd choose.
Asked by foxy m - Thu Dec 6 21:46:23 2007 - - 1 Answers - 1 Comments

A. It sounds like NoveList...
Answered by pandora020105 - Sat Dec 8 21:44:41 2007

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See also:

  • freeWAIS-sf FAQfreeWAIS-sf FAQ
    faqs.org
    Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ] with answers for freeWAIS, a text retrieval system.
  • dtSearchdtSearch
    dtsearch.co.uk
    High-volume text search works with many file types. Features include hit highlighting, natural language, fuzzy, phonic, Boolean, proximity, field, numeric range.
  • SWISH-ESWISH-E
    sunsite.berkeley.edu
    Search engine for Unix and Windows NT that handles meta tags. Free and open-source under the GNU public license.
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