Yometa - in search of the perfect search

Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 19 April 2011 15:45

Business IT - Technology

Yometa.com is the latest player to try its hand at metasearching. The company does bring a new perspective to the concept, so can it succeed where others have faded away?

Meta search engines - search engines that work by combining the results of passing the same query to more than one search engine - are nothing new. The latest entrant to take a shot at the idea is Yometa.



Yometa.com combines search results from Google, Yahoo and Bing and displays them in a visual format based on a Venn diagram. The closer a link is shown to the centre of the diagram, the more relevant it is to the query.

"If you are looking for the most important website related to your search, you could miss it completely if your search is limited to a single search engine, said Yometa proprietor Sri. "It is imperative that you survey all three. But up to now it has been difficult and time-consuming to navigate all three engines, or to wade through sets of meta search results when they are presented in a linear or sequential manner."

According to the company, there is only 3% overlap between the results generated by the big three search engines for the 100 most common search terms. This occurs because they use different algorithms to determine relevance.