Posts Tagged with ‘search-engine’

Freebase is an accessible database that is editable like Wikia and Wikipedia. The startup has been in private alpha testing but just opened beta doors to the public. The service is aimed at organizing the world's data. The database has been seeded with over 2 million topics from Wikipedia and other sources and this data is currently in "read" form for everyone with "write" capabilities reserved for registered users. Freebase aims to deliver on Google's promise to organize the world's [...]

With all of the hype and attention that Google has been getting for every single move it makes, it is somewhat refreshing to see an innovative, useful search tool come along that is not associated with the billion-dollar giant.
There are so many search engines and websites with databases full of information that, often, it is hard to decide where to start. For instance, if you want to find a news story, you might begin with Google News, but to find [...]

Spock, the innnovative people search engine, is back in the limelight today, following its official launch and release of the service to a public audience. Up until now, the service was available by an invitation only. Spock is building the largest and most comprehensive people search engine, with approximately 100 million individuals already indexed.
I have been testing out the service since June and it looks very promising. Searching for people has been a dilemma that several other companies on the [...]

Are you unsatisfied with the results that a Google search turns up? Are too many of the links irrelevant or not at all useful? Well, if so, there is a new social search engine aiming to provide you with a new way to search. Sure there are Mahalo and Aftervote, but now there is iRazoo, which goes one step further… with prizes.
This new social search engine, developed by four Houston entrepreneurs and launched today, is claiming to be the ?world?s [...]

I got a little scoop today from our friends at Powerset Powerlabs. Since the news release of Powerlabs readers have expressed a rather insatiable desire to see something from inside the Powerset development. Today the Powerset blog has announced that their front end is being launched in Ruby - the object oriented programming language. We are very pleased to see Powerlabs follow through on their promise to update us regularly and I have already received 2 or three notifications of exciting news [...]

Mahalo is a human-powered search engine. Currently they have over 4,000 of the top English search phrases mapped with their own pages, and by the end of the year they hope to have 10,000. It’s a five year project, and this is only their fifth month. With Mahalo you are guaranteed to never run into any spam and to only get quality results, since each page is written by actual people and not algorithms.
The Guides, or page writers, also help [...]

I have had rather vast experience as freelance translator so I am particularly interested in testing all translation-related Web tools. There are some good translation and language-learning communities online (and we have already mentioned some of them). But I have never seen any good example of machine translation. I have seen funny examples, ridiculous examples, even hilarious examples. But never in my life have I seen a good (or even so-so) example of machine translation.
I always thought that using [...]

Hakia recently initiated “The Search for Better Search” initiative via a focused poll taken from some of Web 2.0's best technical blogs. The results reveal an overwhelming and compelling need for a better search capability. Make no mistake about it; raising the bar for the people at hakia has nothing to do with hype or beating Google really, but about the art of transcendence. The vision there is about elevating the world's expectations and thinking so that search and the Web can transcend [...]

Just who are Google, AOL and Yahoo! chasing in China anyway? Let's take a look at China's top search engine Baidu.com and see who is making all the ad dollars in China right now.
It seems like every day I have the opportunity to report on either a Google blunder in the international market, or some move by AOL or Yahoo! towards capturing a market somewhere. Baidu just reported their first quarter revenue of 35.6 million dollars, up over 100 percent [...]