Buscaplus is not a search engine. Buscaplus is a framework to create and optimize search engines in the net. These search engines are called search services. Users may configure their own search service, decide on ranking and optimize it for their friends, their communities, their groups or for everybody. This targetted behavior is what we call horizontal or vertical search services. Services that are targetted at some sector or user preferences are very vertical, meanwhile services for everybody are called horizontal search services.
Internet Your Way
In Buscaplus you have the freedom of deciding on search result ranking. You do this not by manually moving up and down a result, but by defining a set of variables that directly affect ranking. These variables can be defined directly (takes some time) or through what we call search patterns. You only need to select a pattern of what you want in a search engine and no need to mesh with Xml files of configuration.
We are also thinking for Summer release in September to allow to add patterns to a list, like a shopping cart. This way you don’t have to define a pattern but a list of things you like in a search service. In the background we would have a system that would work out the configurations to make that thing work.
Users Are More Than One
See, traditional search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing treat you as an average user. They optimize for that “imaginary” user that represents you. They spend big money on doing tests of usuability for real people to come up with something that satisfies most users.
Buscaplus offers another approach. We provide a search framework that allows search account creation free. The Internet community can create the search accounts they like, the market will drive the search creation activity. In fact, the Internet community now has a tool to allow groups of people to define search services that go beyond just 10 results for everybody.
I believe there is more than 10 good results when you search for any keyword. Depending on the search accounts you are using, the results will be different.
Current Status
Buscaplus currently only has content in spanish, around 4 million web pages in spanish. We hope to go for more content and english index too, depending on how successfull we are in seeking financing or getting key partners that will allow to deploy a good infrastructure for the search system.
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