I've been doing a lot of searching in non-English languages, and I appreciate how simple English word structure is when I look at German, for example. And it figures that it would be Germans who would figure out how to help searchers expand their search terms meaningfully to catch all the linguistic variants.
Enter Lexiquo.net, brought to you by Weitkämper Technology. It jumps through hoops if you're searching in German, but right now I'm impressed by what it does for plain old English language searches.
So, what is Lexiquo? Well, it lets you:
- search in Yahoo, Google, MSN, Exalead and Wikipedia, individually or clustered (although the clustering feature is only in German)
- add variants and synonyms for my search terms to my search
- get my search terms translated into German, Spanish, French or Italian.
- see results in images, videos, and people as well as the web
It's in beta and it shows... I sometimes get strange results, all the error messages are only in German, and the help files are written by someone for whom English is clearly not the native language.
That said, for help with finding alternate ways of expressing a search, Lexiquo is worth a try.
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