November 4th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Factery is dedicated to commercializing FactRank technology to enhance the discovery of relevant information in order to simplify and make useful the increasingly noisy social web experience. Factery was founded in April 2009 by Paul Pedersen and Sean Gaddis.
absinthegeek True to the original, Legendre Herbsaint will not contain wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). # absinthe (about 33 minutes ago)
absinthegeek Looking forward to the release of the NEW version of Legendre Herbsaint! Looks like a December release! http://bit.ly/45y97 # absinthe (about 33 minutes ago)
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November 4th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Duck It! A New Way to Search
by Gabriel Weinberg, CEO DuckDuckGo
Dear AltSearchEngines,
I’m proud to announce Duck It, a new way to search.
Of course a search is worth a thousand words…
Try it out with your own searches. After you put in your terms, click the ‘Duck It’ button. Then tell us what you think so we can improve!
We added a new Zero-click Info section that clicks on the top links for you (in real time), and then pulls out sentences that apply to your search.
Duck It builds on the core idea of Duck Duck Go that search results improve when you get useful, readable content in addition to links.
With this new section, you can learn about your search topic without clicking. That means for many searches your search should end right away, with zero clicks. For others, it should reduce clicking.
At other search engines results often don’t make sense when read, so you are trained not to read. Instead you engage in “search yo-yo,” the endless clicking back and forth between links.
With Duck It, the results are meant to make sense when read. So you only need to click when you really want to go to that page.
Again, we’d love to hear from you. We expect Duck It to evolve significantly based on your feedback.
Regards,
Gabriel Weinberg
November 4th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Dear AltSearchEngines, today topikality launches into the public beta phase. After many months of development and testing this is an exciting time for us. Now everyone can use topikality to save time staying up-to-date with important topics.
The central idea of topikality is to help people manage information overload. We personally found it difficult to keep up-to-date with all our topics of interest and the problem seemed to be getting worse. The exponential growth of content on the internet was creating a problem for many people. So topikality was developed with the singular aim of being a more efficient way to stay up-to-date. A system that continuously discovers, delivers and shares articles you find relevant.
Thank you to all the beta testers already using topikality to monitor:
- their industry
- their company and brands
- competitors
- existing customers and prospective clients
- investments
- government announcements
- their favourite sporting teams and players
- Hobbies and interests
- interesting articles to share on Twitter
Thank you for all your feedback.
It has helped create a better system.
You are free to register here.
We hope you like it.
Philip Scott & Richard Heycock
November 4th, 2009 by Guest Author
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By Alan Masarsky, here.
One of the hottest destinations for categorized topics and a “guide to the web”- Kosmix.com – has integrated Clipta video search into their site to provide more video options to over 5 million of their monthly visitors.
Utilizing Clipta’s easy-to-use and flexible API, Kosmix can now search and display our index of hundreds of millions of online videos and the latest videos from the most popular destinations on the web. Our API allows web publishers and developers to bring completely customizable video search to their sites, along with the ability to use video search results in custom applications and widgets. As users engage with videos on API partner sites, Clipta’s unique search algorithm records the engagement in order to continue improving and to continue delivering even more relevant and tailored search results.
Integration on Kosmix part varies from displaying Clipta video search results on all of their Video sections and also providing Clipta in a list of sources for video on Topic Pages.
Do you have a website with video on it? Do you want to add relevant and related videos from around the web on your site? Then Clipta’s video search API can work for just as it has for many other Clipta partners. For more information, please visit our Clipta API overview .
About Kosmix (source: CrunchBase):
Location: Mountain View, CA
Funding: $55M
Description: Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. The Co-Founders are Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman.
About Clipta:
Clipta is one of the largest video indexes on the web, and a destination for Internet users to find, discover, share, and interact with videos. Clipta is an intelligent video search engine that improves the online search experience by helping users find the most relevant videos from any source worldwide. With a combination of new technologies including deep crawling and video search algorithms, Clipta quickly collects content and delivers targeted and tailored video search results. Beyond the ability to search for content, Clipta has create multiple platforms that allow users and web publishers to discover, promote, share and interact with videos from across the web. Clipta was founded in April 2008, and has launched in 18 international countries.
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