Scope of Vertical Search Engine or Specialty Search Engines

Sunday, March 11, 2007 Posted by Deelip Kumar
Vertical or specialized search: A type of search engines that focus on specific business or industry i.e local, topical and vertical search. Google, Yahoo and MSN these are the major players in search engine industry that covers a wide range of online consumer search market. Now what is the scope of vertical search engines? why people wants to search in specialized search engines?

Sometimes, People want to see all the information they can get related to that industry... at that time users generally wants to use the major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. But when user interested to buy a specific product of any particular brand like tanishq watches. When consumer enter the term "tanishq watches" in major search engines and he not only found tanishq watches but all kind of watches then its really frustating for him. That's where speciality or vertical search sites stand. For any specific items related to their business or buying something on the net, users don't want to waste their time in searching and filtering relevant information.

The major search engines using "Web Crawler" to fetch very large number of documents. All the search engines use some criteria to filter and sort the document. A step by step procedure to find out the relevant information is called algorithm.
Vertical search engines used to send their spiders on highly refined database only. So that user can find only relevant information, closely related to their specific term. There are so many specialized search engines are also available like for Travel, shopping, medical search engines, science search engines etc. Ultimately vertical search engines will play an important role in next few years.
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