10. Tackle information overload and find desired results quickly - Search engines often return thousands of results for a typical query. Find your desired results quickly by using our clustering engine at www.cowskid.com/qe.htm that organizes results according to their categories. Pick the categories of your interest while completely ignoring the results in other categories. Hence, saving tremendous amounts of time.

9. Find hard to find results - Due to high result volume returned by search engines, often the results of your interest get buried under commercial or paid listings on search engines. Since a typical user does not explore the results beyond top 20-30 results, often the relevant results to your query remain unexplored. Reformulation of queries and same high volumes of results cause plenty of time wastage on the user end. By organizing top 200-300 results according to their categories, even the result ranked at 250 on Google/Yahoo becomes visible on COWSKID. Follow www.cowskid.com/qe.htm to try our clustering engine today

8. Track ‘Online Concept Drift’ - Both search modes www.cowskid.com/qe.htm and www.cowskid.com/dt.htm allow the users to save results from their current search. COWSKID’s DT search mode available at www.cowskid.com/dt.htm allows the users compare results for same query performed at different intervals of time. This helps the users in tracking the changes in online material wrt the topic of their interest. For example, John - a nutritionist performs a search on “Health” in year 2001 and saves the data file. By comparing those results with the results returned for the same query performed in year 2006, John can easily detect the shift in people’s perspective about health over five years. Similarly, a stem cell researcher can quickly learn about new studies over a few months or even years by using our DT search mode.

7. Discover relationships among different things - Student, faculties and researchers are often subjected to situations where they need to perform a comparative analysis between two or more things. This means researching topic A, then researching topic B and followed by comparative analysis. What if a search engine let’s you compare two different things and presents the summarized results in the form that can be easily digestible by its users. COWSKID’s DQ search mode does just that. To use this search mode, click here

6. More heads are better than one! - Even the world’s best search engines cannot keep up with the growth of WWW. Hence, combined results from several search engines is the key to completing information space and more productive search experience. Unlike other meta-search engines, COWSKID’s user interface clearly separates results found uniquely in each search engine from those found common to some or all of them. By doing so, COWSKIDers can save time by avoiding reading same results from different search engines. At the same time, COWSKIDers can also quickly learn how common/different the search result sets returned by different search engines truly are. From our observation, we can say that datasets returned by Google and Yahoo are very different while AlltheWeb.com is very similar to Yahoo. Hence, in future a user can ignore reading results from AlltheWeb if he/she has already examined results from Yahoo. For a more productive search experience use our comparison engine at www.cowskid.com/de.htm

5. Researching Cross-cultural findings is a breeze: Whether you need to research cross-cultural findings or you are simply inquisitive about such things, COWSKID’s DC search mode (www.cowskid.com/dc.htm) can dramatically reduce the task of comparing online documents from one country with those from another to find similarities. DC search mode offers endless possibilities for people across the discipline spectrum. These people can be FBI experts researching about Shiite and Sunni conflict in Iraq and Iran, IBM employees trying to find similar IBM patents filed in different countries, or a high school student asked to compare American youth with Indian youth. Even if you may not need to use this form of comparative search, we encourage you to play with it in your leisure time. You may be surprised by what you find!

4. Similarly, Researching Cross-domain findings is a breeze: Like DC search mode makes cross-cultural findings simple, DD search mode makes cross-domain findings a breeze. Finding commonalities between businesses, educational institutions, organizations and government agencies can be a painstaking task. With DD search mode users can select their desired domains for comparison with respect to the topic of their interest. DD search mode generates a comparative summary that lists major/ minor topics that are common to two or more user-specified domains pertaining to the query. Say Amanda, an army officer is interested in learning whether a technology ‘Z’ she is learning in her college course has applications in the government operations. By simply querying technology ‘Z’ on DD search mode and selecting ‘.edu’ and ‘.gov’ domains for comparison, Amanda can quickly find some web pages in both ‘.edu’ and ‘.gov’ domains that have some commonalties pertaining technology ‘Z’. Click here to use this mode of search.

3. State-of-the-art User Interface: Besides empowering COWSKIDers against information overload, COWSKID offers a user interface that makes your search experience a memorable one. The ‘preview’ button besides every result loads the web page within the same frame enabling the user to preview the desired page without requiring then to go to that page … a real time saver! Our scientists are continuously finding new ways to save your time and make your search experience a fulfilling one.

2. Don’t just search … analyze, evaluate and explore your search results: Our generation has “paralysis of analysis.” But then why don’t we analyze the quality of results returned by search engines. Well, one reason may be because so far no search engine has provided its users with such evaluation analysis. With the debut of COWSKID, that is going to change. Anytime a COWSKIDer uses our clustering engine - www.cowskid.com/qe.htm, some statistical and quantitative parameters are evaluated from the dataset collected and result set generated. These parameters indicate the quality of snippets generated by search engines, the diversity in themes of results and so on. Note that this search mode is also under revision and may not be available at times.

1. Unlike anything else on the internet: After years of rigorous research and analysis, two Data Mining and Web enthusiasts (Hardik Lagad & Guozhu Dong) came up with COWSKID design. Our patented technology and search engine is unlike anything else available on the internet. COWSKID opens a new direction for next generation search engines. Put this powerful tool to your use today. Click here for a glimpse of next generation search engines.

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Applications of Comparative Web Search (COWS)

April 9, 2007 by admin.

Hello COWSKID users. Please help us in identifying all possible applications of COWS. We have listed a few good ones at http://www.cowskid.com/whycowskid.htm

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