Is this the next real-time search engine?
July 2nd, 2009 by Steffen Schilke
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Knowledge + Engine = Semantic search engine Kngine
July 2nd, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Kngine is a Knowledge Web search engine designed to provide meaningful search results, such as: semantic information about the keywords/concepts, answer the user’s questions, discover the relations between the keywords/concepts, and link the data together.
Examples include: Movies, Subtitles, Photos, Price at sale store, User reviews, and Influenced story.
Kngine’s long-term goal is to make all human being’s systematic knowledge and experience accessible to everyone. I aim to collect and organize all objective data, and make it possible and easy to access. Our goal is to build on the advances of Web search engine, semantic web, data representation technologies a new form of Web search engine that will unleash a revolution of new possibilities.
Kngine tries to combine the power of Web search engines with the power of Semantic search and the data representation to provide meaningful search results compromising user needs.
Kngine started as a research project in October 2008. Over time, I succeeded to collect, represent, and index a lot of human binges systematic knowledge but it is just the start. As of now, Kngine contains 500+ million pieces of data, for 4,000+ domains. Kngine knowledge base and capabilities already spans a great number of domains, such as:
- 60,000+ Companies
- 700,000+ Movie
- 750,000+ Person
- 400,000+ Location
- 115,000+ Book
- About 5,000,000 concepts.
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Kngine, as it exists today, is just the beginning. I have both short- and long-term plans to dramatically expand all aspects of Kngine, qualities, broadening and deepening our data, and more. I just released Kngine Milestone 2 (Our first public release), soon a preview of section called ‘Labs’ that will include a set of new research and technologies to access the knowledge will be presented.
If you have an idea, or feedback, please leave a comment!
Sources: Kngine.com and Mark M.
Way over Zonder is a search engine for vacation rentals
June 29th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Newcomers, Real Estate, Travel, Verticals | 2 Comments »
Zonder is the new, easy way to find and book a vacation rental online or over the phone.
With a simple, powerful search interface and the ability to book online or over the phone in real-time, Zonder is taking vacation rentals to the next level. No more complicated booking process. No more tedious searching. No more paper contracts and personal checks. Just search, find and book – the way it should be.
With Zonder, you can finally book vacation rentals in real-time online or over the phone using a credit card, just like you would a hotel. No more complicated booking process. No more paper and contracts and personal checks to send off. With Zonder, booking the perfect vacation rental is just a click away.
Zonder gives you the tools they need to find the perfect vacation rental for your trip. This includes the ability to search by city, state, country, zip code, airport code and more! You can then narrow down your search results based on price, availability, distance, group size, and thousands of amenity combinations! Finding the perfect vacation rental has never been this easy.
Zonder has thousands of rentals all over North America, Central America and the Caribbean. We have everything from private homes on the beach in Mexico, to private condos in downtown New York City. Zonder’s accurate, detailed descriptions and photos of each property help you select the perfect rental for your vacation.
Source: Zonder.com
The search engine for online freelance projects DoNanza
June 29th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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DoNanza is a new kind of search engine; a search engine for freelance online projects -the kind of money making and exposure getting tasks that you can do from home.
Did you know there are hundreds of thousands of online projects across the Web?
•They require all types of skills and fields of interest (from programming to music, from graphic design to copywriting)
•They offer rewards to those who perform them successfully (from cash to serious professional exposure)
•And they are all waiting for you!
Here on DoNanza we collect all those online projects, and our mission (yes, we choose to accept it) is to expose them all and help YOU find the most relevant online projects.
Each day, we scan the web hunting for new online projects and display them in one single format so you can easily search through hundreds of thousands of projects from countless sites. Within each project, you can see: The compensation offered, the time remaining for completion, whether it´s in bid, contest or other formats and whether in addition to enjoy performing the project it will also buy you your next Bahamas vacation…
All you need to do is to state your skill or field of interest (you could be general and write “design” or be more specific to your skill set and write “Website design”), press the “Search” button, and we will show you all the World Wide Web has to offer.
We believe that each and every person can find online projects relevant to his skills and interests.
Whether you came here to make an honest living or just to challenge yourself in your free hours doing the things you love, you came to the right place.
And for all you freelancers already using a site or two offering online projects – DoNanza is a powerful tool that will bring you every available online project on the Web.
Our vision at DoNanza is to organize all of the world´s online projects into one simple easy to access source.
We believe that the world of employment is radically changing and shifting to what Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article called, Crowdsourcing. We think that Crowdsourcing is relatively straightforward: It´s the online distribution of certain tasks to crowds of experts and enthusiasts.
And from the words of Shane Robison, HP´s chief strategy and technology officer: “Crowd-sourcing is going mainstream and will change the rules of the game forever. Fortune 50 companies will access top talent on a global basis via the Internet, saving millions of dollars in professional services, from occupations as diverse as accountants, advertising experts, attorneys, and engineers…”
From the employers point of view the incentive is obvious – he can tap a wider range of talents than might be present in its own organization. From the providers perspective (as the ones doing the project), they now have a chance to compete for projects that aren´t necessarily geographically close but were published across the world.. And for all of the enthusiasts out there, with a passion for a specific field, never had a chance and platform to prove their talent in, DoNanza is the place for you.
Source: DoNanza.com
Search what’s said on television with TV Trends
June 28th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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What is SnapStream TV Trends?
Using SnapStream Servers, we record U.S. national TV (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, MSNBC and CNN) and make it so you can view trends.
So what are SnapStream Servers?
Think of a SnapStream Server as a cross-between a DVR (on steroids) and a search engine.
OK, how are SnapStream Servers used?
Imagine you’re a major presidential campaign. You want to know in real-time, 24×7, what’s being said about your candidate and about the competition. You want to be able to quickly collaborate around and respond to that television coverage.
Find a piece of TV coverage. Create a clip. E-mail that clip. Burn a DVD of that clip.
One way of looking at what we do: SnapStream brings some of the power of “new media” — search, copy and paste, linkability — to the “old media” of television.
But how often is TV trends data updated?
Updates happen every half hour and a show’s data is only added to TV Trends after it’s completed (ie a show isn’t added to TV Trends as it is being recorded).
From SnapStream’s ‘TV Searcher’ Blog
by Rakesh Agrawal
Today, we’re launching SnapStream TV Trends, a tool that allows you to track trends on national television here in the United States.
Enter a couple of keywords (up to 5) into TV Trends and you’ll get a graph showing you the relative frequency of mentions of those words on mostly-news programs on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, MSNBC and CNN.
TV Trends graphs can be embedded into your website or blog using the simple embed code underneath the graph or you can link to graphs by just copying the URL from your browser’s address bar. And on the TV Trends site, you can view excerpts of stories at selected points along the curve and you can filter the results by network (chart mentions of “Obama” on Fox or MSNBC) and by genre (show me mentions of “Obama” on comedy programs).
Another feature of TV Trends are hot and cold words… These are the top ascending (hot) and descending (cold) words on national television. For example, as I write this blog post, the top rising terms, the top hot words, are “north korea” and “two american journalists” — references to the two American journalists that have been sentenced to hard labor in North Korea.
While many types of analytics are available for other media (see Compete, Alexa, Trendrr) until now, there hasn’t been a way to track and analyze what’s being said on traditional television. TV Trends attempts to offer some insight into the world of traditional “offline” television…
And behind the scenes, SnapStream TV Trends is powered by SnapStream’s TV recording and search technology. SnapStream’s TV search technology allows organizations to record LOTS of TV and then search inside those TV shows for mentions of their city government, “breaking news” on a competitive local TV station, an elected official, a natural disaster or anything else anyone might be looking for on TV. You can think of it like a cross between a DVR on steroids (one SnapStream Server can record 10 TV shows at a time) and a search engine. This technology powers TV trends and it’s behind TV monitoring at organizations such as E!’s The Soup, XM Radio, NBC, Current TV, the U.S. Senate, University of Southern California, University of Texas, City of Austin, and the City of Chicago. If you use a clipping service or, worse, a bank of VCRs or DVRs, to keep track of what’s being said on TV about your brand or whatever, you should give SnapStream Enterprise a look. So try out TV Trends and leave a comment!
Post your questions and feedback here in the comments or on twitter (we’re at @snapstream).
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