Shopping Search Engine - WhoHas.com

WhoHas.com is a portal that provides 3rd generation vertical search engine results that helps buyers focus on e-commerce sites that do business on selected products or services. Buyers can focus in on just the products that they want to buy without wading through websites or links that do not deal with their subject of interest. This is a time saver.

It is also comprehensive with over 350,000 stores indexed in its search library. Buyers will have a good opportunity to get the results they need and desire.

The portal is easy to work with. The main site has a search box and a WhoHas directory link to the categories that have been indexed. Just select the link and a list of categories will appear then select the one that you want to work with. A browser window will open with selections from just that category. From there you can browse or enter a search term. It is easy and fast.

WhoHas.com began its indexing in 2006, and now has a large library of stores indexed. Consumers will be pleased with the scope of their site. It has 11 categories at present: Electronics and Optics; Pets and Animals; Food, Beverage, and Tobacco; Movies and DVD; Toys, Games, and Hobbies; Computers, Software, and Internet; Music; Flowers, Gifts, and Entertainment; Jewelry and Watches; Beauty and Fragrances. Each category will have its own set of subcategories.  Users can drill down to their specialty or use the search box to get the results that they want.

3rd Generation search engines are basically vertical search engines. They index their results per category instead of per symbols like words. Hence by using a different algorithm than one used by 2nd generation engines like Google which look for key words on a web page, the 3rd generation looks at content to determine where a website should be listed. The algorithms are different, 2nd generation uses symbolic processing and the 3rd uses linguistic processing.

Using artificial intelligence methods their search engine analyzes the websites it finds, reads them and determines if they offer products or services, which in other words it determines whether the website functions as an e-commerce site. If it does, it gets information about products, and services. It also gets information about prices and descriptions about the various offerings. Finally, it even goes one step further keeping statistics about the e-commerce site such as popularity, rankings, and reliability. All of this is done to ensure that the results are timely and relevant to the consumer.

The advantage of WhoHas.com:

• Large database of sites stored

• Ease of use

• Comprehensive results

 Disadvantage:

• The market has a lot of competition.  Google and Yahoo have their own vertical search engines.

The days of the anything goes search engine is a thing of the past. Too much spam, incorrect results, irrelevant or duplicated results were keeping users from making the best time of their searches. 3rd generation search engines in general and WhoHas.com in particular offer a way for the consumer to make better choices and provides them with better time spent on the computer.

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