The search engine Kosmix is showing content and results in a magazine like style. Kosmix is not new. Formerly it has been a vertical search engine on beauty and health. Now Kosmix has a new approach by showing different media at the search results.

At the homepage are up to date news of wellknown publications and by the news rating service Digg. There are entertainment elements and useful hints like shopping tips. Other elements do inform about hot topics at the site itself like hot search terms and topics and Twitter posts. Another apparent point is mentioned above the search form, which encourages to get information about persons. This reminds of semantic or natural language search engines and is similar to the search engine PowerSet.

But Kosmix is a real search engine, which enables to search for every topic. After the submission of a term a hint appears about creating a guide. This is how the search results look. These do consist of an overview with various elements. One may scroll through the results or narrow them by some menu tabs at the top, which leads to particular results in a fast way. The results contain various media and of course social media elements. One may easily find relevant blogs or conversations as well as reviews, relevant groups or sites at social networks.

Directory Sources: Search Engines – Search Engine Innovations