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Hakia (http://www.hakia.com) is the Web’s new “meaning-based” (semantic) search engine with the sole purpose of improving search relevancy and interactivity, pushing the current boundaries of Web search. It uses a more advanced knowledge-gathering system called QDEX, and a ranking algorithm, called SemanticRank to enable semantic analysis of Web pages.

Hakia’s benefits:

• Galleries – Hakia presents search results in a categorized format to provide meaningful variations of the subject.
• Relevancy – Hakia can handle long-tail (complex) queries via its semantic capabilities.
• Richness of Information – Provide search results of the equivalent meanings of the search terms.
• Freshness – Analyze and retrieve search results from dynamic pages without a compromise.
• Auto Highlighting – Hakia highlights relevant phrases or sentences that best correspond to the meaning match of your search.
• Complete text – Provide a full point of view of the content for you to evaluate the search results instantly and saves you significant search time.
• Dialogue – Hakia points out good answers in a dialogue mode in addition to making suggestions, correcting spelling errors, and listing related Hakia Galleries.

Now, You can add the Hakia search plug-in for short-cut access to the search engine. All you have to do is browse to the Hakia website and click on the dropdown button to the left of the search box to expand the search engine menu and click on “Add hakia Search”.

Hakia Challenge

You can test and compare Hakia search performances against various search engines side-by-side with Hakia Challenge. Comparisons can be made against Google, Yahoo, and Live.com. Click here to view the example of the comparison.

Hakia ScoopBar

Hakia ScoopBar is an embedded bar in your web browser(just like Google Toolbar). When you perform a search with the Hakia ScoopBar, it keeps the history of search in the search box. When you click to open the search result page, Hakia ScoopBar highlights the text, and automatically positions the highlighted section for easy view.

You can click on the yellow Scoop icon to save the relevant section of the webpage in a local HTML page for future use. It is currently support IE and Firefox web browsers.

For more information on the Hakia ScoopBar, visit the Hakia ScoopBar information page or view the Flash presentation. To download the ScoopBar, visit the Download page.