November 28th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
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From my office, what do I see? For starters, I am grateful just watching an intense, creative and colorful team radiating energy at our Answers.com headquarters. With our two main products constantly growing, it’s a lot to be proud of.
The world of information has evolved from telephones to radios to televisions to the internet… Information has never been more available or expansive. But we find ourselves wading through facts and figures and volumes of webpages overloaded with content… It can be overwhelming, and search engines have certainly come to the rescue for narrowing the web. But if we want to narrow it further – enough to get that one answer we’re seeking in any given search – then hasn’t the time come for an answer machine?
Our goal at Answers Corp is build the web’s ultimate answer engine. The typical search engine is great for getting back thousands of results for deep search. When you want fast info and quick answers to questions, wouldn’t it serve you better to visit an answers engine? That’s what we are building with our two main products, Answers.com and WikiAnswers. Both sites are designed to give you straightforward content, packed with information from either reference sources or the wider human Q&A community.
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November 28th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
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Charles: “Want to help us find some Polish search engines?”
Reader: “I know a single one worth mentioning — it is called NetSprint. Polish search engines are an extinct species, I’m afraid — Google dominates the local search arena just as pretty much anywhere else in the world.” <emphasis mine>
November 28th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
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Exalead today announced that it has released an optimized version of its popular Web search engine that is specifically designed for use with the Apple iPhone. Available today, Apple iPhone users can simply point their Web browsers to i.exalead.com for instant access to Exalead’s Web search engine.
“People should have the same experience using exalead.com, whether they’re searching the Web from a PC, a Mac or a mobile device like the iPhone,” said François Bourdoncle, cofounder and chief executive officer of Exalead. “With the launch of the iPhone in France and its rapidly growing popularity in the U.S., we saw it as a logical move to optimize the Exalead Web search engine for those iPhone users.”
With its patented navigation technology – Search By Serendipity™ – Exalead offers a unique search experience through easy-to-use, yet sophisticated features. For every query, Exalead automatically offers a list of related terms and categories to help users easily comb through search results. In addition, Exalead provides a thumbnail image for every search result so that users can also search more visually to quickly sort through results.
Exalead’s Web search engine complies with the display specifications of the Apple iPhone screen so that users don’t need to “zoom in” to clearly see search results or scroll horizontally to see the rest of the Web page. The Exalead iPhone-adapted Web search handles online video searches from popular sources like YouTube. When users click on a video search result, the Exalead Web search engine automatically identifies the format to offer a full-screen viewing experience.
November 28th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
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Carrot2 provides an architecture for acquiring search results from various sources, clustering the results and visualising the clusters. Currently, 5 clustering algorithms are available that are suitable for different kinds of document clustering tasks.
Advertising a flexible architecture, high quality and BSD-like license, Carrot2 has been successfully used in a number of commercial and research applications and resulted in a number of interesting publications. To get started, please have a look at their live demos and the downloads section. If you have any questions or comments about Carrot2, please let them or us know.
For consulting services and text mining expertise, contact the Carrot2 spin-off company Carrot Search. Carrot Search offers Lingo3G — the third generation document clustering engine featuring hierarchical clustering, ontologies, synonyms and advanced tuning capabilities.
November 28th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
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VerticalSearch’s mission is to provide the B2B community with the best search experience on the web; they focus their search engine on the most relevant web sites for the B2B user, over 4,000 of them, including many online -only publishers of B2B information.
These sites offer a wealth of content and editorial expertise in the whole range of B2B verticals, from Agriculture to Mining, Construction to Transportation. Soon we will be adding tens of thousands of B2B company sites to augment the B2B trade press sites. And, as VerticalSearch.com evolves, watch for useful community tools and features that will allow each vertical B2B community to share domain expertise, product offerings, and business and job opportunities by sector.
But VerticalSearch also wants to hear from you, if you are a B2B user. With your help, VerticalSearch can become one of your major partners in developing new leads, delivering relevant content, and putting you in touch with your industry colleagues worldwide.
VerticalSearch.com LLC is a privately held company founded by Jeffrey Dearth. Partners in the venture include Planet Discover, a customized search engine provider, and DeSilva & Phillips, LLC, a media investment bank.
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