Organizing the Web
By Kristoffer Bohmann, Bohmann Usability
Organizing the Web. New search engine Teoma is using weblogs and link pages to organize the web. In fact, the company is able to build portals without human editors. The technology is useful for buildinging corporate portals, personalized portals, portals/related links about today's news, and other areas where you need to organize and update large collections of links. The technology may not make human edited portals like Dmoz and Yahoo obsolete but it certainly will be complementary to them.
Teoma outperforms other search engines in one critical dimension: They don't use cookies (at present) thereby providing better privacy for heavy users. The company is currently indexing 100 million webpages as opposed to market leading Google's 1,3 billion webpages.
Kristoffer Bohmann
