ManagedQ adds a visual interface to search results taken directly from Google, and categorizes them based on whether they are Person, Place, or Thing. As you hover over term, the result shows highlighted where it appears in the document.
ManagedQ boasts Instant Find, and both partial/full match results.
“Now in all Managed Results (that’s the preview you see when you click a result), simply start typing and we will Instant Find matches inside the document…We both do full matches as well as partial word matches. So type in “Jay Leno” and you’ll find all the instances of “Mr Leno” “Jay” and every other possibility….
This, I understand. But this is over my head…
For the Techies out there, we’ve added Regular Expression support to Instant Find. Simply begin your expression like /expr/ and you’ll be greping your results (omit modifiers like ‘i’ or ‘g’, we auto append them).”
That just sounds like a waste of time. While it’s currently too cluttered and overwhelming for my taste or everyday use, it definitly speaks to the state of search and how people are looking for a change - I just don’t think visual previews of websites are the way to go (unless its activated on hover of the link and doesnt effect the speed or quality of my search). I also don’t need my results ‘managed’ or organized. I just want to find exactly what I’m looking for and fast. And in a very simple user interface with little distractions.
Someone tell me if ManagedQ has done anything to improve the future of search, because I just don’t see the benefits or understand the technical enough. I don’t need another layer between me and my Google.
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I have to disagree here, I think they’ve got something really good here. Regular expressions are a hugely powerful tool for pattern matching, and to be able to do that across all your results is awesome. I know its technical right now, but i read on their blog that they’ll average joe-friendly implementations of it shortly.
It was also fairly speedy for me, obviously not quite as fast as google is, but you get the same quality results…if images are going to be presented, i prefer their method – I hate hover-over image popups – they are annoying, make me think they’re ads, and get in the way of reading what they cover up.
i actually find that often i can find what im looking for faster with managedq than google because their instant find feature lets me search through all the results in real-time without having to go back and forth through google results check it out here
The key piece missing from this review is the mention of the important people, places and things. I’ve done some reading and do qualify as the technical type person who you mention in your review. ManagedQ actually uses “NLP” (Natural Language Processing) to pull out the important people, places and things. This is a much more sophisticated technology than the simple display of results that Google uses, which is more synonymous to returning results from a database query. Long story short, ManagedQ is a company to track because it appears they are building real technology. Using Google as a starting point seems to make sense as no one really wants to switch to a new engine. Other alternative search engines make that mistake.
Nick I disagree with the regex stuff being useful. If I am searching something and then want to search within the results for something else I would just add that something else to my original search. A great competitor for this site would be a simple addon to the Firefox/IE search bar to open top X results in new tabs and a search across tabs feature.
Erin – Yeah the People/Things/Places is cool but I still havn’t found a time when this is better than just going to wikipedia and crawing subject to person to place. You may be able to say they are bringing the wiki links dynamically to every page on the web but if I am not on wikipedia I dont care for those links.
Good attempt but I agree with the 1 star on potiential to be useful scale.