InOrder Conceptual Search
March 1, 2009
Update: link updated, March 2, 2009
A happy quack to the reader who sent me a link to the conceptual search engine InOrder.org here. Here’s the description of the system from the organization’s Web site:
InOrder is a collaborative conceptual search interface. It is being developed by Garrett Camp at the EIS Lab at the University of Calgary. It’s design premise is that search engines such as Google already find relevant results for well-formed queries, but do not efficiently elicit these search needs from users. InOrder solves this issue by creating an interactive environment for collective group search. InOrder acquires domain knowledge of semantic relevance within a given search context. Mediated sets of “topics” and “terms” guide search exploration by collective intuition, reusing search strategies utilized by ones peers. Incremental and explicit elicitation of these collective strategies enables participants to make better-informed search decisions. In terms of existing web media InOrder may be viewed as a structured weblog of the semantic interactions of those with similar search goals.
We ran several test queries and found the system interesting. Here’s a screen shot of the result for our query “enterprise search”:
We will do some more testing.
Stephen Arnold, February 28, 2009
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I ran it and got:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/gmc/inorder/index.php:68) in /home/gmc/inorder/index.php on line 69
Warning: array_push(): First argument should be an array in /home/gmc/inorder/updateindex.php on line 67 Warning: array_push(): First argument should be an array in /home/gmc/inorder/updateindex.php on line 67 Warning:
…..and a few hundred more lines of error report.
Perhaps a little more testing is necessary
Charlie Hull,
Dead for me too. If it comes alive, I will post the new url.
Stephen Arnold, March 2, 2009