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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas by dgallagher on Friday March 09, 2012 @11:18PM (#3687026)
You're talking about highly-focused, or micro, search. Yeah, Google doesn't seem to do that very well. They have a few segments, like book search and image search, but it's not specific enough.

One thing I search for sometimes are code examples in a particular language. Search for something in C on Google and you end up with lots of stuff for C++, C#, etc... Github, with its large repository of public code, lets you filter by programming language, and is much better than Google in these cases.

Bing copies Google. DuckDuckGo returns different things than Google, but otherwise is a copy. There's no micro search engine for specific topics and sub-topics, outside of site-specific search. Market opportunity...

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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas by pramodbiligiri on Saturday March 10, 2012 @01:39AM (#3687251)
We're trying to do something like this, i.e, let the user build more complex queries (than a free text search) for their specialization without having them write actual SQL ;) We've started off with Biotech - http://www.distilbio.com
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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas by pbhjpbhj on Saturday March 10, 2012 @05:45AM (#3687557)
www.dialog.com/products/guide/results/science_advanced.shtml

Dialog have been doing this over the internet for a long time. It's generalised search of the web I feel that is too expensive to tackle as yet.

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