Knobull.com Team Plans To Reduce Turbulence Caused By Chaotic Development Of The Mobile App Market

February 19,2013

Lynn Bentley, CEO Reviews link between historical development of the Internet Metasearch Engine Industry By Colleges and Knobull.com Platform development

Knobull.com Team Plans To Reduce Turbulence Caused By Chaotic Development Of The Mobile App Market

Lynn Bentley says, "Since the birth of the modern Internet in the early 1990's, need for data retrieval has led to the growth, success and death of numerous search engines. The majority of Internet users now use Google, Yahoo and Bing. Google, launched at Stanford University in 1998, applied the concepts of link popularity and PageRank as the primary ranking algorithm. Yahoo, launched in 1994 by Stanford, started out as a personal listing of web sites and description of each page."

Other universities have followed suit with creation of specialized metasearch engines where each applied creative new features to enhance the Internet search process. Examples include Colorado State; Columbia; Texas A & M; Universities of Arizona, Kansas, Melbourne, Minnesota and Washington. Metasearch engines have primarily focused on source engine selection, re-ranking and integration of multiple engine results. More recent technical developments include clustering, linguistic analysis and textual analysis.

The Knobull.com team plans to develop a metasearch engine platform that is a tool that sends iPhone user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and will aggregate the results into a single list. The prototype that will be developed is a local Metasearch engine for the New England region that will initially enable college student users to enter search criteria once and access several search engines simultaneously.

The key technical differentiation will be a platform specifically designed to enhance the search experience for youthful iPhone and iPad users and a client-server platform which will be expandable to other selected US regions when fully implemented. In addition, iPhone hardware design expertise will be applied to the platform design project to maximize hardware/software interface effectiveness and minimize power requirements for search transactions. Desktop users will also be able to access the service.

The Knobull metasearch engine operates on the premise that displayed Internet data is too extensive for any one search engine to index it all and that more comprehensive search results can be obtained by combining the results from several search engines. This also may save the user from having to use multiple search engines separately.

The "metasearch" platform designed will model existing commercial search engines but will initially target students at one New England college and then be expanded to other colleges in heavily populated US regions with the paradigm of searching multiple data sources in real time.

Bentley concludes, "The metasearch engine developed will create a virtual server database that will connect to member iPhone users. It will not compile a central database or catalog of the web. Instead, it will take a user's request, pass it to several other Internet databases and then compile and list the results based on required algorithms."

Those who have questions, comments or interest in Knobull technical opportunities should contact Lynn Bentley on linkedin, facebook, twitter @bizcoaches or email lbentley@organizationtransitionsinc.com.

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