PageLens = Zoom In + Learn More

April 10th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Innovations, Reviews | 1 Comment »



PageLens was founded on the idea that when we come across an unfamiliar word, name, phrase or concept on a webpage, we’re too busy or too afraid of getting side-tracked to go look it up in real time. With present solutions, we’d have to leave the page, do a search, sift through the results, and find the answer to our original inquiry.

Generally, not worth the effort.

PageLens helps give context to what you’re reading by providing instant answers using a browser-based solution. With a single click, you can read, see, hear, write, or chat about any topic on any webpage. By highlighting the word or phrase of interest and right clicking, the PageLens player does it all for you! Once you have your answer, just close the PageLens player and continue doing what you were doing without ever missing a beat.

Launched in April, PageLens is seeking user feedback to create a better product that meets users needs by saving time while allowing them quickly dig deeper on topics of interest.

The PageLens service is free. Download the plug-in and test PageLens beta version today. Stand by for PageLens Spanish, German, Japanese, French, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, and Chinese versions soon!  -And don’t forget to check out the Demo!

BooRah – the NLP restaurant search engine

April 10th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Alts, Reviews | 3 Comments »

BooRah is a personalized review guide providing consumers a smarter way to find great restaurants. BooRah’s patent-pending natural language processing technology automatically summarizes a collection of online reviews from bloggers, professional critics and consumers, and allows consumers to search based on their personal preferences.

By capturing the community vibe and social essence of existing online groups, and comparing the results to an individual’s search criteria, BooRah delivers unsurpassed relevance with the broadest community reach.

BooRah’s service helps consumers achieve their ideal dining experience by allowing them to search thousands of restaurants to meet their individual requirements. BooRah currently delivers information from over a half million restaurant reviews.

Their system uses patent-pending Natural Language Processing technology to generate quantitative scores for domain specific attributes from plain English text, automatic summaries from most relevant user sentiments and enables a highly customizable search based on personal preferences.

This technology can be extended beyond restaurants and could revolutionize the concept of business and service search.

Go BooRah!

I WANT IT ALL – AND I WANT IT NOW!

April 10th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

This post has a very important video component.

Please go to seeqpod, and search “Queen I want it all”

Make sure that you select one that has Youtube in the url. Click play, you should see this:

Now, play it often and play it loud!

A boring homepage, like an empty sheet,

just an engine’s crawler, light on its feet.

A young blogger screaming, with no time for doubt

With the pain and anger, I see a way out!

It ain’t much I’m asking, please hear me say,

Search has a future, move out of my way.

More market share, more market share, more market share; and I don’t care how.

I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now.

Listen all you engines, come gather round. (on April 21st!)

We gotta get us a game plan, gotta shake’em to the ground.

Just give me what I know is mine,

Alts do you hear me, just give me the sign.

It ain’t much I’m asking, if you want the truth,

here’s to the future, for the dreams of youth.

More market share, more market share, more market share; and I don’t care how.

I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now!!

I’m a man with a one track mind,

So much to do in one life time.

Not a man for compromise and where’s and why’s and living lies.

So I’m living it all, yes I’m living it all,

and I’m giving it all, and I’m giving it all.

<extended guitar solo and drum solo>

It ain’t much I’m asking, if you want the truth,

here’s to the future, hear the cry of youth.

More Market share, more market share, more market share; and I don’t care how.

I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now,

I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it (I want it. I want it.) now!!!!

Title: I Want It All

The Artists: Queen

Will Yandex Take on Google?

April 10th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Global, Guest Authors, News | No Comments »

News from the Quintura blog:

The leading Russian search engine Yandex has expanded its web index outside of Russia by indexing the first billion pages outside the RU domain, says Yandex’s webmaster blog. For example, when one makes a search for an English keyword on Yandex, the search engine will return one result from the COM domain (or other domain) and the other nine results from the RU domain. The ranking of search results is according to Yandex’s general search ranking rules with no particular preference given to non-Russian results.

Yandex has a web index of more than 4 billion pages, including 3 billion pages in Russia. ComScore recently ranked Yandex as the ninth search engine globally.

According to Yandex statistics, 15% of its searches are in a language other than Russian. That would imply that 15% of Yandex revenues from search ads could come from non-Russian searches. Google is number 2 in Russia with 31% market share of referrals behind Yandex with 44% market share, according to LiveInternet.ru.

By expanding its web index outside the RU domain, Yandex will likely seek to retain those of its users who usually switch to Google for searching information outside the RU domain.