Is hakia a Natural Language search engine?
Yes, but I do not like this terminology at all. It has been widely used in the past to refer to “being able to ask queries in a natural way” or “a search engine that understands your query.” These are immature definitions. First, what is natural or not is unclear. Why not say “free of specific rules” instead? Second, understanding the query/question is only part of the story. More important part is to understand the Web text by algorithms. Just handling the query smartly, then applying a rudimentary Web text analysis will not do the job. The correct definition is “semantic search”. hakia is a semantic search engine that covers natural language search and more depending on how the term is used and understood.
