Websets: Turn Web Search Into Your Private Database 60

What is Websets?

Websets is a new type of search engine launched by Exa company. It leverages large language model (LLM) technology to transform the chaotic information on the internet into a more organized and queryable database.

Features of Websets

• Precise search results: Websets analyzes web page content to deliver more accurate search results rather than relying solely on keyword matching.

• Targeted at advanced users: The search engine primarily caters to advanced users who need to find specific types of information, such as people or company data, and is capable of returning concrete and precise result lists.

• handling large volumes of data: Although Websets currently processes fewer web pages than Google, it is able to encode billions of web pages to meet the needs of specific user.

Use cases of Websets

• Investor and recruiter: For user who need to obtain specific types of data sets from the web, such as investor or recruiter, Websets can provide more valuable information.

• Academic research andData analysis: Researchers and analyst can leverage Websets to find and integrate information in specific fields, improving research efficiency.

• Corporate information query: Business can use Websets to find potential partners, competitor or industry trend, assist in decision-making.

Advantage

• Exa uses LLM technology to redesign the search process, encoding web content into embedding format, capturing the meaning of text rather than limit to keyword.

• This method allows Exa to predict the next link rather than just the next word.

disadvantage:

• Encoding web pages is slower and more expensive than traditional keyword indexing.

• Exa has currently encoded billions of web pages, but compared to Google’s trillion web pages, it is still insufficient.

• Websets returns result at a slower pace, sometimes taking several minutes.

How to use Websets

• visit the Websets platform: visit the official website of Websets.

• enter a query: input related query keyword in the search box, such as “startup that manufacture future hardware”.

• Browse result: Websets will return a list of specific company related to the query, and the user can click to view detail information further.

• adjust search setting: as needed, the user can adjust the display mode or filter condition of the search result to obtain information that better matches the need.