Vertical search engine
Vertical search engines concentrate on certain topics such as sport, health or finance or on special target groups such as e. B. Job seekers, children and young people, art lovers and scientists.
In contrast to general search engines, vertical search engines only look at a part of the World Wide Web and create an index of web documents that correspond to the topic under consideration. Vertical search engines are often based on the same technology as universal search engines, e.g. B. Apache Lucene . The user interface can, however, be more complex, for example to allow the result set to be narrowed down using facet classification (also known as “ drilldown ”).
In the study “Vertical Search BtoB Report 2009” by the market research company Econsultancy, the respondents stated that the main advantage of vertical search engines is that they can find relevant information quickly. Around two thirds of those surveyed saw the following aspects as the most significant advantages of vertical search engines: Finding the information you want faster (67%), the top results are more relevant (65%), and the focus on special business interests and work processes (64%).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maria Zens, Friederike Siller, Otto Vollmers: Search engines for children ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; in: D. Lewandowski (Hrsg.): Handbuch Internet-Suchmaschinen ; Heidelberg: Academic Publishing Society, 2009; Pp. 375–402 (pdf; 3.07 MB)
- ↑ D. Pieper, S. Wolf: Scientific documents in search engines ; in: D. Lewandowski (Hrsg.): Handbuch Internet-Suchmaschinen ; Heidelberg: Academic Publishing Society, 2009; Pp. 356-374.
- ^ Vertical Search BtoB Report 2009 ; Study by Econsultancy.
