After my original post about ePrecis - ePrecis - a new search technology comes of age I did a little more digging myself into ePrecis. One of the commenters (Ward Johnson) on my original article notified Richard McManus of Zdnet and he himself has done a piece on it. It’s a nice piece and worth a read.

Mr McManus describes the nature of ePrecis and references some research papers into it’s operation. He also describes some of the searches he has done and the results. Very interesting stuff. I recommend you read Richard’s article.

ePrecis - next generation search by Zdnet’s Richard MacManus digs further into ePrecis

Try ePrecis for yourself

This post was done with an image browser wordpress plugin you can get from Shriker’s site.

This is really just an experimental post. I’ve installed the plugin. Pretty standard easy install. Now I’m writing the post and in the admin panel. I click advanced edit.

I click the link for Add Image and a window pops up which allows me to ad an image from my image directory. It was a snap to ad the code which is below as I write. No cutting and pasting.

I selected the option to ad as a thumbnail with a link to the image. Hey this is pretty neat.

I’ll keep this image browser plugin around a while I think.

Well, have you tried it yet? It’s a cool tool.

In the search for a better search, a new player has emerged. The fledgeling ePrecis has devised a new search technology that provides a different and possibly more user friendly output to the searcher.

The search technology is dubbed “semantic search” and according to Amy Wohl’s blog article uses pattern matching to produce refined searches.

The output is similar in appearance to a Google Search - with the exception that the returned results are fewer - which is purposeful - and also that an abstract (otherwise known as a precis)
of the returned URL is provided.

ePrecis currently is a free search engine with no sponsorship or advertising but other search engines may start looking with interest.

Personally, I liked this. I liked to be able to see more of what I’m getting before I take the plunge into a site. I can read 5 or 6 abstracts and and search on 1 page for the most relevant to my search.

As an example - I searched for Vitamin B3 and eprecis returned some very nice results. Try it yourself at ePrecis Search Engine.