Maryland based Intelliverb is a full content based search engine with a relevancy model driven by point of operation dependency.
The company founders have designed and implemented an algorithm called PageScale, which ranks pages on an “intelligent content analysis basis” and not popularity alone. This approach is said to deliver different search results than regular search engines.
The company is of limited means and the search engine is conceptual, so there’s always room for improvement. In a week that saw the launch of ACrappySearchEngine.com it’s best to let Intelliverbs results speak for themselves.
Vanity Search:
No luck. How about the boss:
Michael Jordon is the first result. Both are tall so I guess it’s at least warm. Lets search for Intelliverb itself:
Intelliverb.com not in the first 2 results. It was third.
It’s clearly not Google, so the results are fairly accurate. The last question:
Better.
Duncan… you think yours is bad? Try mine!
“Do you mean alien stern”
Brings me back to junior high school!
no offense to the founders, but a little aesthetic work would really improve that site’s user experience.
skeptical search engine?? being too smart is not nice sometime..
Hmm……why is everyone concerned about companies who can beat Google?
@Mathew: The same applies for TechCrunch
business search: google - Do you mean goggle OR go ogle…
they should reconsider entering into search engine business or return to private beta after this review.
btw i don’t like their logo either.
This doesn’t look too promising, does it?
Hunt for spy programmers is hard to find. They are usually lottery people or Secret men. You can find them around the U.S and some parts of world.
Spy programmers usually use fake name, looking put into trade secret stuff, putting new search engine source code, no copyright infragement, no patent infragnement. He will sit down on quiet park with yellow envelope and disk. No camera… No company spies..
Spy programmers usually run away with deals and never come back…They dont’ accept money either.
It’s cool to find spy programmers…Some search engine is usually made by russians, chinese, british, canadians, israeli, and americans. It could be 007, KGB, MI6, MOSSAD, CIA, all the intelligence men give away free source code gifts. They goal was compete search engine super power.
It’s pretty cool to have
Google, Google maps, Yahoo Maps, baidu, yandex, yahoo, accoona, powerset, wikia, etc…
Duncan, why did you ever publish this write-up? Run out of good start-ups, or did the founders get to you?
I’m annoyed by this…not because its Yet-Another search engine in what is starting to look like a crowded market, but because this start-up is focussing on one aspect of search (the algorithm), but neglecting another key area: the user interface. Copying the status quo is like an insult to what start-ups are supposed to be; innovative and creatively free.
Mine is funnier: joke hunkies OR foe hunk ins
They seem to also have trouble with their own name:
The search for : intelliverb search did not match any document in the system
But Duncan you don’t answer your own question - is is good to invest in search? PowerSet has even Google (a little bit) worried because a killer search application will shift things within a few years or months as we’ve seen with the evolution of search.
Maybe TechCrunch should consider organizing a “search hedge fund” that would invest in dozens (hundreds?) of the most promising new search companies.
Please people give them chance to succeed. Come on… Oh knows… These guys could be famous.
Remember the old google days… Stanford.google.com wasn’t popular. people didn’t even know these guys. Somehow they invented something cool.
Give them chance. They didn’t ask for VC…
You know what is biggest fear… Islamic fundamentalist or Muslim founded and powered AI search engine. Dubai have last digit A.I. They have lot of money. Oil power, desert power, economic power, etc.. AI search engine could bring hype over there. They can have IPO
You guys should not attack U.S search engine startups. Give the little faith… They could help us bring better life and American dream. Come on we screw up war with iraq stuff. We have high oil price over here.
lol wtf is “business”?
Looks like it has a ways to go. How did you find these guys?
@Joe Hunkins
>> PowerSet has even Google (a little bit) worried
Do you have *any* evidence of this?? Are your Googler friends telling you they’re concerned? I’m guessing not.
I remember when Google was a search engine start-up…
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@david #9
zinju.com is not so great either- you are not even co-located
CIDR: 208.109.0.0/16
NetName: GO-DADDY-SOFTWARE-INC
maybe they should return to private beta and work on the algorithm and GUI a bit more, but none the less an interesting project to be working on. May not necesarily be a google killer, but does it really need to be? it was mentioned in on a blog post i linked to in my blog that only 1% of the search market accounts for $1bn enough for a small company if they can get it!
Good luck to em i say
Pfft. ACrappySearchEngine.com is way crappier than Intelliverb.
#10 - gotta agree with you … I’d like to see a innovative, creative UI rather than the bland textbox with button. I mean even live.com is lame and I was hoping the Live brand would show use something different.
I don’t mind these search startups, but atleast make the search box and results something DIFFERENT than the status quo.
But Phugit its hard to please everybody because if they make it different then some people may say we want a familiar interface - at least as familiar as possible to Google in a way. I think that is the reason why they stuck to the status quo because its a safer bet and I cannot blame them.
haha
type in “google”
it doesnt even return google.com as the top result.
who the fk would want to use this ?
Temptation to mock the site notwithstanding, I’m actually curious — does anyone have an understanding of what they mean by ‘point of operation dependency’? This is not a sarcastic question!
Lex, regarding Google’s concerns about Powerset. Short answer is no, I don’t think any of the Google folks I know has ever expressed concerns to me though I have not brought this up specifically. Long answer is absolutely yes. Eric Schmidt has noted, correctly, that Google is only one great search idea away from having real competition. Powerset also convinced one of Yahoo’s excellent search guys to join them (Tim Converse). Do I think Powerset is likely to be the next Google? No. Do I think Powerset has a *decent chance* of becoming a dominant player in the market? Yes. Will Google’s dominance in onine advertising see any challenges in the coming 5 years. Yes. Therefore, Google is concerned - their stock price is based on the assumption they’ll keep being dominant for some time. Staying at the top of your game while supersizing the company is a challenge even for Google’s brilliant leadership and staff.
It did get one search right:
“intelliverb sucjs”
Returns “did you mean ‘Intelliverb sucks’”. Ha!
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(see duncan, scrolling down sucks.)
I don’t like this search engine, there is no more exciting changes.
What kind of review is this? It almost seems like you were drunk when you chose your sample queries.