At Relona we have completed extensive comparison studies to measure the improvements produced by our intent-analysis system. We followed these comparison studies with selected studies performed by well-known and respected individuals in the search-industry. These studies by experts confirm the findings from our earlier studies - that Relona produces improvements of a high magnitude, enough for search-engines such as Yahoo, Microsoft or Ask.com to catch up with Google. Browse the data files and notes compiled by the experts below.

Charles Knight & AltSearchEngines Team

AltSearchEngines is edited by Charles Knight, a respected industry analyst and former SEO from Charlottesville, Virginia. AltSearchEngines is a member of the ReadWriteWeb blog network. ReadWriteWeb is a popular weblog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis. It is ranked among Technorati’s Top 20 blogs in the world. Charles has appeared recently in Newsweek International, and was nominated for three blog awards in the Search Engine Journal competition. Since its inception on June 1, 2007, AltSearchEngines has rapidly become one of the definitive sites for niche search engines.

Charles and his team spent over 4 hours studying the performance of Relona's intent-analysis algorithm. Their results: Data-File and Notes

Giridhar Kumaran (Scientist, Microsoft LiveLabs)

Giridhar's research has been in the areas of information retrieval, web search, user interaction, specialized query processing, topic detection and tracking, and machine learning. At Microsoft Research, he worked on analyzing click-through information on search results to improve the quality of training data for the Live Search Engine. At Yahoo! Research, he helped develop an advanced search feature (familiarity classifier) that allowed users to re-rank search results by their familiarity with the query's topic.

A few days before joining Microsoft LiveLabs, Giridhar spent over 4 hours going through Relona's demo system and conducting a careful comparison study. [Note: This evaluation was performed by Dr. Giridhar in his personal capacity and is not endorsed by Microsoft, Yahoo, or CIIR.] His data confirmed results from our earlier comparison studies: Data-File and Notes

Ben Carterette (Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval)

Microsoft LiveLabs Fellow Ben Carterette conducts research into measurement of relevance at CIIR, the research lab founded by Salton Award winner Bruce Croft. Ben spent over 4 hours evaluating the performance of Relona's search algorithm. His results: Data-File and Notes

Garrett French (formerly of SearchEngineLowdown and MSI)

Garrett is a well-known expert in search and has been reporting on the industry over the last 4 years since he started at WebProNews as a search engine correspondent. He was the managing editor of SearchEngineLowdown a site run by Market Smart Interactive and has been a regular contributor to the SearchEngineJournal.

Garrett spent over 4 hours evaluating Relona's technology. Here is the data from his comparison studies: Data-File and Notes

Phil Bradley (formerly of SearchEngineWatch)

Phil Bradley is an information specialist and has worked in the area of electronic publications for over 20 years. He became an Internet Consultant in 1996 and specializes in search, often being referred to as the 'UK Search Guru'. He teaches many varied courses on aspects of the Internet, both publicly available and in-company. Phil is also well known for his writing, and he has written several books on different aspects of the Internet, and is also very well known on the conference circuit. Phil is also one of the Microsoft 'Search Champs', providing them with feedback on their developments in search technology. He is a well known speaker at the ONLINE and the Internet Librarian conferences, and also often speaks at the UKOLUG conference. He often speaks at the AGMs for various organizations such as the Rare Books Association and ARLIS.

Phil performed a very detailed evaluation of Relona's engine over a period of 8 hours. Here are the results from his study: Data-File and Notes

MEASUREMENTS OF RELONA'S IMPACT ON SEARCH-ENGINE RELEVANCE: