While nobody in his right mind would think this new search engine would pose a threat to giants such as Google or Bing, there’s no denying it has come into the fold with some new ideas. And that’s always something worthy of a round of applause, and more than its fair share of respect.
Yesterday, on August 29th, Helioid was reviewed by Juan Diego Polo on Wwwhat’s New. Juan gives an example of Helioid’s usefulness when searching for cities:
![](http://d.helioid.com/images/captura-150-600x366.jpg "Helioid search for "turismo chile"")
“When searching for cities, for example, we see categories for hotels, guides, events, trips..”
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Continue Reading...“We could soon view today’s keyword searching with the same nostalgia and amusement reserved for bygone technologies such as electric typewriters and vinyl records.”Continue Reading...
What is unique about it? Compared with conventional search engines, Helioid places search results on the left column with filtering options, users can choose which filter option, or simply show only some of the options. Provides fast and efficient search results. Support for Chinese search.
Search results are quickly and wisely.
Review site for cool new web services, MakeUseOf, has published a review of our very own Helioid!
From the article, “Helioid is a new entrant in the Google-dominated search engine space that wants to help you refine your search results by checking the categories it comes up with when you search for a query.”
The Helioid team and collaborators have released a Europe Travel Guide for Android.
We’ve packed over 3600 European destinations in a tiny offline guide. It’s filled with great content from wikitravel and is the perfect guide for backpackers.
Continue Reading...A few weeks ago we discussed a monograph by M. Wilson, et al., which elucidated the failings the modern search engines when it comes to exploratory search. Wilson and associates concisely characterize exploratory search as revolving around needs that are “open-ended, persistent, and multifaceted, and information-seeking processes that are opportunistic, iterative, and multitactical.” Back in [...]
Continue Reading...The monograph From Keyword Search to Exploration: Designing Future Search Interfaces for the Web by M. Wilson et al. lucidly reviews the current state of search interfaces that move beyond the traditional list of results. We’ve included some choice quotations below.
On why we need better search interfaces and systems:Even more recently, though, researchers have identified just how inadequate the familiar keyword search paradigms, provided by environments such as Google and Bing (Microsoft’s search engine), might be for users who need to do more than just find a website that answers a factual question. (p.9)