Thanks Pieter. I was really looking to find out if user understand
the difference.
Mark
On May 13, 2008, at 4:37 AM, Pieter Jansegers wrote:
As I understand it, horizontal search is done by the typical search
engines as we now them ( altavista, yahoo, google, live, gigablast ).
They search in as many places as possible. It's like searching the
all world area to find Bin Laden.
Meanwhile vertical search engines look closely to one particular
site (or type of sites). You can create such a search engines at
http://topicle.com or using it to revisited all sites you love at
http://lijit.com .
This is like searching for a criminal in a particular area or city
or even building.
It's easier to have all the data of one particular place than that
of all the world at first sight, yet if you really want all of the
data it's pritty vast as well.
It's the difference between a world's history course (horizontal)
and the history of a particular school (vertical, remarking
everybody of some importance to have studied there, who showed an
interest in the school, who wrote about the school, ... ).
You could read:
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/vertical-vs-horizontal-search-
engines/4274/
http://www.straightupsearch.com/archives/2007/01/vertical_vs_hor.html
On 5/13/08, mark schraad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does anybody have any quick data, or a reference for user
understanding regarding the difference between web search and
vertical (within the current site) search?
hanks,
Mark
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