Truvert is a new beta version search engine that claims to be one of a kin, and it is rather unique in many ways. The aim of Truvert is "to provide users with information that is focused on their interest. Truvert provides a scalable, accurate, and powerful search technology that learns the meaning of language the same way people do - by its context," says the developers.
Focusing on environmental awareness, Truvert provides a search engine that is actually designed form the point of view of environmental concern and responsibility. When a search term is entered, Truvert grabs results from YAHOO BOSS. The results are organized and put into relevant clusters by Truvert. If you search for the term "computers" for example, the search engine knows that you want information about eco-friendly computers and will populate a list of links relevant to green computing. The Truvert search engine is a quick learner, the company says it learned how to process search terms and acquire relevant results in less than an hour on only one server without use of a thesaurus or ontology or taxonomy. This was possible because, just like people, Truvert learned to use language by context; learning a new topic takes just minutes. This version of Truvert was trained on green web pages, so it knows about green things and will pull up much more relevant searches than a general search engine such as Google or Yahoo.
Truvert is user friendly with a simple search box located at the top of the screen. You are not required to type in a full sentence, just one or two words. Truvert will interpret the search terms within its eco-friendly context and pull up results to meet your needs. Search results are ranked and presented beneath the search box on the right hand side. Simply click on the icon to see a preview of each page, and then click on the link to be taken to that page. If you click on the information icon you will get a list of interesting phrases for the document. For the time being interesting phrases only populate a list of English HTML pages, but Truvert says that future releases will work with other languages and file types.
How to navigate Truvert
Located on the left of the page are themes for the documents that have been retrieved. Two icons follow each theme label.
· Clicking on the screen shot icon will show just the current documents for that theme.
· Clicking on the plus icon at the top of the column will return you to display all of the documents for all of the themes.
· Clicking on the looking glass icon will run a new search for documents matching that theme.