Kartoo Closes and Opens the Door for Yometa
February 7, 2011
We learned from one of our readers that Kartoo has turned out its lights. According to Wikipedia, the company shut down after a nine year run. Kartoo relied on Flash to display search results. Novel? Yes. Useful. In some types of queries, yes.
If you are interested in visual search, you can check out Yometa.com. This is a federating search system which taps results from Bing, Google, and Yahoo. A query for “Stephen E Arnold” returned this display.
Yometa displays the most relevant search results based on a combination of the three search engines ranking determined by the Yometa algorithm.
The company developed its approach based on research that showed that 97 percent of search results by the three search engines(Google, Yahoo and Bing) are different and there is only three percent overlap. The visual interface allows users to see results of Google, Bing and Yahoo individually and in various combinations. Users can see any combination of search results from Bing, Yahoo and Google in one screen and is displayed in a visual interface. The search results are displayed in a Venn Diagram, the results closer to the middle are more relevant.
For more information navigate to www.yometa.com/about/ .
Stephen E Arnold, February 7, 2011
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[…] Kartoo Closes and Opens the Door for Yometa Kartoo has turned out its lights. According to Wikipedia, the company shut down after a nine year run. If you are interested in visual search, you can check out Yometa.com. This is a federating search system which taps results from Bing, Google, and Yahoo. […]