Emerging opportunities in Domain Specific Search

Abstract

The cyber space is exploding in rapidity that nobody has ever imagined, it becomes very essential to search the web of cyber space efficiently and effectively. One solution came up as an resolution to this problem is search engines. By now a lot of commercial business search engines have been put on the market. The web has grown up a lot in terms of search engines. However these search engines sometimes respond with awkward and bulky results, this was unbearable for domain specific experts. Numerous domain specific search engines are being developed using a dedicate hardware and a commercial software. These engines are widely used for variety of purposes and topic specific searches. A domain specific search engine is different from a general web search engine; the domain specific search focuses on a specific segment of online content. They are also called specialty or topical search engines. The domain specific content area may be based on different topics i.e. topicality based, type of media, or type of content. General verticals include shopping, the automotives, legal information, medical, literature, and travel. In this paper we will be studying the changing nature of web search in context to domain specific search[1].