Last night (9/21/09), we posted an update to Zakta which included many search engine improvements and bug fixes. Thanks to all of you who sent in your feedback to us. It helps immensely!
We also released a notable new feature called Zakta Best Bet.
If you’ve been following our progress, you know well already that we aim to solve the problem with deeper informational searches on the Web with a system designed to do so. In our research, we have recognized that there’s a class of informational searches where it is possible to surface one search result which, with a very high likelihood, contains the information you are looking for. This is what we’ve done with the Zakta Best Bet feature.
For some of the queries, we are able to now surface one single hit and highlight that hit as the Zakta Best Bet for the query.
Try this out:
For these kinds of queries, with the Zakta Best Bet, we try to bring to you the one hit that will likely contain exactly what you are looking for.
How do we do this? Zakta Best Bet is a result picked by the choices made by real people but backed by all the same ranking techniques used in traditional search engines. So, while we are not able to present Zakta Best Bet results for every query right now, our results will improve continuously over time.
Please let us know what you think!
- Sundar Kadayam, For the Zakta Team
Zakta made its official debut in Monday’s Cincinnati Enquirer, 
