Radio Interview: Wall Street Reporter

Nigel is interviewed by the Wall Street Reporter about Turbo10's innovative search technology.

Turbo10 Metasearch Engine - Calling all Specialist Search Engines

Turbo10 Metasearch Engine launched a new service today, making it the first search engine to enable owners of niche, searchable databases to add their engines to the Turbo10 Metasearch Engine.

Unlike other engines, that only accept website submissions, Turbo10 is accepting submissions for specialist search engines via an online form - 'Add Search Engine.'

Nigel Hamilton, Turbo10's Co-founder and Managing Director, said, "By enabling website owners to add their engines we are increasing their exposure and uncovering information goldmines for the searcher."

Several specialist websites have already registered their engines for inclusion. One website, www.partypages.co.uk is a party planner, providing a unique database of party suppliers in the United Kingdom. For example, if you search on 'balloons,' quality results from PartyPages will be included in the Turbo10 results set.

"Traditional crawler-based search engines like Altavista and Google cannot index other search engines. By using unique search engine adapter technology we are going where crawler-based search engines can't go," Nigel Hamilton, former Computer Science, Lecturer said.

In the next few weeks Turbo10 will be connecting up new engines. The submission form can be found at: http://searcher.turbo10.com/cgi-bin/addsearchengine.cgi.

In addition to 'Add Search Engine' functionality, Turbo10 has significantly reduced browsing time by taking the scroll bar out of searching and replacing it with a Search-o-Meter: a unique search tool that enables users to move quickly through the 10 results per page.

Turbo10 automatically groups results into similar topic areas or 'clusters.' Enabling searchers to quickly 'home in' on a relevant topic cluster and find a result quicker. For example, if you search on 'salsa', Turbo10's algorithm identifies 'dancing' and 'recipes' as two distinct topics.

Turbo10 Search Clustering Technology Reduces Browsing Time

Turbo10 Metasearch Engine launched a new search engine clustering technology on the Internet today. Turbo10 automatically groups results into similar topic areas or 'clusters.' Enabling searchers to quickly 'home in' on a relevant topic cluster and find a result quicker.

Turbo10.com's new clustering technology - 'Turbo10 Topics' - lists the Top 10 related topic clusters for a search.

Nigel Hamilton, Turbo10's co-founder and Managing Director, said, "We want searchers to find a result fast. Topic clustering enables us to present the searcher with a high precision result set. This means less browsing and quicker results for the searcher."

At the centre of Turbo10's clustering technology is a unique, multilingual information retrieval algorithm that concurrently clusters results from other search engines.

"The clustering algorithm and interface were designed from scratch with browsing speed and the searcher in mind. The algorithm is optimised so only the Top 10 Topics are presented to the searcher," Nigel Hamilton, former Computer Science University Lecturer, said.

Turbo10 Topics are generated for each search and are listed in a pull down menu at the top of the search results to help users refine their search. For example, if you search on 'salsa', Turbo10's algorithm identifies 'dancing' and 'recipes' as two distinct topics.

Together with Turbo10 Topics, Turbo10 has significantly reduced browsing time by taking the scroll bar out of searching and replacing it with a Search-o-Meter: a unique search tool that enables users to move quickly through the 10 results per page.

Turbo10 searchers use forward and backward control buttons built into the Turbo10 interface to quickly flick through the search results.

The Turbo10 Search-o-Meter also graphically shows searchers how far they have progressed through the results and enables searchers to instantly jump to anywhere in the result pages.