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Hakia.com is a semantic search engine that aims to rank its results according to the quality of the results that come up for a search query. The search engine claims it will provide results that are relevant to the query. Since Google’s dominance in the search, market, very few people have attempted to even challenge this fact, until hakia.com is a search engine that aims to arrange results semantically, this means every search that you make will be ranked according to quality rather than popularity which most search engines these days are doing. With a tabbed results display the search engine allows you to enter a search term and then view the results according to

1) All results – This is probably all the results in the search index that are relevant to the users query, they are ranked according to relevance

2) Credible sites – The results are ranked according to the relevant site and the categories that they belong to

3) News – The search engine will only search for news related to the search term

4) Images – Image results are shown

5) Meet others – this allows for you to interact with other users who have done similar queries. Hakia Search was established in 2004 it is run privately and its headquarters is based in New York, the company has funding of up to 21million. Looking at it at a glance and comparing it to Google there are a few advantages and disadvantages that we can identify.

Interface

The interface is straight forward the tabbed results screen allows for easy navigation and for most of the information to be located above the fold of the screen, also on a search you can see the image results relevant to the query.

Advantages

· Ranking of sites according to quality of content

· Tabbed results display allowing people to search with focus

· Reaching of unique content

Disadvantages

· not relevant to country

· smaller search index

· new semantic technology may not be accepted by the market yet

Hakia is a very good search engine but it still has a lot of ground to cover before it can take over much of the market the Google has. We will only have to see with time how the market receives it.