Please join us for a private dinner and lecture series on Wednesday night, October 22nd in Berlin. The dinner will take place in a local restaurant near the Expo and after the day’s sessions.

To RSVP, please email me at Charles@AltSearchEngines.com


Lecture #1 - GoPubMed.org - Dr. Michael R. Alvers

Semantic Search for the Life Sciences and Beyond

Does the world need another search engine? After all, we already have Google. The answer: Absolutely! Although today’s search technology is quite good, web searches are still in their infancy. Traditional search technologies lack completeness and tools to explore the huge result sets. Use of background knowledge e.g. in the form of semantic networks, taxonomies or ontologies is essential to overcome these problems. GoPubMed.org implements these technologies for searches in the life sciences. The engine helps to save hours of time and guarantees completeness.

Lecture #2 – Mozilla Labs - Aza Raskin

Ubiquitous Search – How can search be enhanced to provide truly rich interaction inside the browser. Ubiquity is a Mozilla Labs experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.

Lecture #3 – FAROO – Gosia Garbe

FAROO Peer-to-peer – The last stand before the almighty cloud and the future of search

Copy the entire Internet to one system? Strange idea. That’s what search engines try to do. Therefore they require hundreds of thousands of servers and billions of dollars. For more than 10 years search engine technology got stuck with the initial architecture. The collection of the whole, exponentially growing Web on a single central system is not successful on the long run. The Internet is successful because its core technology and content generation are distributed and a lot of people take part. If search as the widest used internet application would also be built on distributed architecture this provides radical cost advantages, better scaling, less intrusive crawling, democratic ranking, and improved privacy protection.

Lecture #4 – MSearchGroove – Peggy Salz

AltSearchEngines’ Mobile Search Expert

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