Foodie Search Engine

May 16, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Foodie Search Engine

Vertical Search Works has launched their new VS4Food search offering for publishers. This vertical search engine resides on a publisher’s site where users can enter a query using a toolbar, and the search engine returns results from both the publisher and from other web sites relevant to the query.

MarketWatch brought this news to our attention in their article, “Vertical Search Works Launches New Faceted VS4Food Search.” VS4Food organizes results into relevant categories or facets, along with relevant images. The search results also contain relevant advertisements selected by their semantic ad matching technology.

This interesting attempt at findability can be made possible with proper indexing. Proper indexing against a strong standards-based taxonomy increases the findability of data. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.