According to Digvijay Lamba of Kosmix, “for search to be viable as a platform in the long-term, it must offer value to everyone involved: the platform creator, the application providers, and the users. The platform creator and application providers need to make money, obviously, while at the same time offering consumers high-quality, easily accessible content for free. This can be achieved in one of three ways: The Amazon Model, the eBay Model, or the Facebook model.”
Later he adds, “All three of these models have merit, and it remains to be seen which direction a search platform will take. One thing remains clear: as search evolves it will become harder and harder for one company to do it all. A platform that connects hundreds of search engines together can become a powerful source of innovation allowing it to build a deeper and richer experience for its users. The innovation in search has only just started. We need millions of connected search engines.”
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We at Semantifi believe that this philosophy it is especially true of Deep Web Search which is orders of magnitude larger than the surface Web and hence no one company can search it all. Semantifi has just begun to search this vast Web by
- building a platform like App Store by hosting its search technology online for anyone to use to build “Data Search Apps” for free
- engaging a community of App Publishers, and
- creating value for everyone involved: the platform owner, publishers and users.
With Semantifi as the platform owner, a diverse community of publishers and enough number of Apps covering most web verticals, the structured content can be wired together one dataset at a time making Deep Web Search a reality.
