Thread: Vertical search

Vertical search refers to a specialized search. Unlike generic search, vertical search engines look up a very limited subset of the wealth of information in the Internet. Such search engines are meant for specialized search. Unlike generic search, vertical search engines look up a very limited subset of the wealth of information in the Internet. Such search engines are meant for specialized needs of users. Vertical search engines send their crawlers out to a highly focused database to bring back specific information as desired by a user. Such results are. most value to people interested in a specific area. However the companies that advertise on such search engines reach a very refined audience. Hundreds of such vertical search engines have sprung up these days. Retrevo.com is a site that helps you browse anc\,. find electronics items. Now there are search engines for virtually everything including job seekers, travel, patients and veterinarians.



Yahoo recently announced an expansion to the BOSS technology called "vertical lens This allows developers build their own vertical search engines usingYahoo's search technology, through BOSS. It gives developers the ability to frerank and control the presentation of search results, besides giving them the freedom to incorporate the search results database within their own custom built search environments.