Bing, Google, And The Enigmatic T2: The Race For A Complete Semantic Search Engine
TechCrunch Jan 22 10Yesterday, Bing released a surprisingly useful new feature around recipe search. If you search for "Chicken," you can narrow the results down by "chicken recipes" and then a whole bunch of new filtering options appear down the left-hand column. You can further narrow results by recipe rating, cuisine (vegetarian, Spanish, Southwestern), convenience (quick/easy, family, entertaining), occasion (wedding, Valentine's Day), main ingredient, course, or cooking method. Bing is big on guided search (showing relevant search categories to help narrow results), but this goes one step further towards semantic search (the ability to index and search the Web by different facets). Full story...
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