Startpage’s new proxy service – the movie!

January 29th, 2010 by Charles S. Knight
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Factery Labs Launches New Real-Time Fact Engine

January 26th, 2010 by Charles S. Knight
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Factery Labs, a search technology company, just announced the launch of Factery Labs’ Real Time Fact (RTF) engine. Delivering facts instead of links, Factery Labs provides users with a simple way to find out what’s going on and what people are talking about on the web. Users can personalize their view to get real-time information that is of particular interest to them.

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“This is what real-time search is really about. We developed the Real Time Fact Engine because we wanted a window into what’s happening all around the web, and there wasn’t a central place that captured everything,” said Paul Pedersen, founder and president of Factery Labs. “Other services will give you a list of high volume queries but they don’t tell you what it means or why it’s interesting or important. What people are talking about is constantly changing and Factery Labs lets you figure out at a glance what is happening now.”

Factery Labs works two different ways:
Users can choose from pre-defined categories like “sports,” “politics,” “world,” “entertainment,” or set up their own topic of interest by typing any term into the search box. Each search will continuously refresh with the best and latest facts allowing users to stay completely up to date on what’s happening on the web. Users can then easily share facts via Facebook, Twitter or email.

Factery Labs also provides a “Trends” category for trending topics defined algorithmically by checking Twitter and Google. Factery Labs supplies the meaning behind these trends by exposing the facts found on pages recommended by Twitter users on these topics.

Users can explore facts using a search panel on the left hand side of the page. Any search can be ‘favorited’ and then becomes a tracking query – basically a personal trend that users can monitor each time they return to Factery Labs. Trends appear on the right hand side in a collection of continuously updating trend result panels.

For example, a user particularly interested in the Winter Olympics could type in searches for “Whistler Village”, “ice skating”, and “curling”. The engine tracks these personalized trends and supplies current facts extracted from Twitter and Yahoo! recommended URLs.

Source: Factery Labs

Sency releases several new features!

January 25th, 2010 by Charles S. Knight
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Sency has recently upgraded its site with the following new features:

Sharing – Sency now makes it extremely simple to share both real time results and real time links that are found on its site – you will see the share links under each result and link on Sency.com.  You can share this content on your Facebook and Twitter page – and you can also easily email the information as well.

Link Mentions – When you visit Today’s Most Popular links for a particular search term – you can see how many times this link was mentioned.  You can now click on the blue mentions box to see the past 20 users whom have mentioned this link on the real time web.  This can give you an idea as to whom is sharing the links which are popular on the real time web right now.

All links posted by a respective user – When you get to a user page – which lists information and a picture about a respective user – you will see a link to see all links posted by this user.  This will show you the past 20 links posted by this user on the real time web.

The Top 100 –  Sency has published a The Top 100 page which shows you 100 things going on over the past few days.  While the Sency homepage will show you 10 topics going on lately, this new page goes much deeper to give you a wide range of topics which have been talked about recently on the real time web.

Ex: RT @zephomega The dot over the i is called a tittle. #uselessFacts

Sency will continue to add more features, as it is becoming a value able resource for internet users looking to find out what’s going on right now.

Evan Britton
Founder, Sency
Sency – What’s Going On?

Please see this related video from Sency – editor.

Kngine Launches Web 3.0 Search Engine

January 24th, 2010 by Charles S. Knight
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L1After more than three months of beta version. Today we are glad to announce Kngine, a Web 3.0 Search Engine designed to provide customized meaningful search results. Rather than indexing the Web in inverted index fashion, Kngine tries to understand the Web pages and the search queries in order to provide meaningful results.

The Internet has changed in the last ten years, but search engines have not kept up. We still spent much time to reach the information that we need, even if it’s to answer simple questions such as: ‘Cisco Acquisition’, ‘Who is the writer of The Matrix?’, ‘How many people live in Cairo’, ‘GDP of Italy’, ‘Nokia 5800 Specs’, ‘Top countries by Oil Production’. Today to answer such questions you must search, browse, and pore through the pages.

A New Approach to Search:
Kngine, built to go beyond today’s search experience, includes multiple meaning word perception, question answering technology, structured information as well as new user experience model that dynamically adapt to types of queries for suitable results type.

Tour:

  • Read Perception Words with Multiple Meanings:
    Words and expressions are often with multiple meanings. For example, ‘Leopard’ refers to ‘Leopard’ once as an animal and another as ‘Apple Operating System’.Kngine can easily discover such words, and provide smart meaningful Information about referred concepts.
  • Provide Structured Information about Concepts:
    Kngine recognizes concepts within structured information. This information lets machine to understand queries better thus enable a better user experience in many ways. Instead of providing web links blankly, it makes Web Searching experience more user-friendly.
  • Available Results (New in this release):
    Kngine now proudly presents Available Results. Available Results allows you to get more semantic results without leaving the page or retry.When user searches ‘Seattle’, the Available Results could be ‘Weather’, ‘Hotels’, ‘Attractions’, and ‘Events’. When user searches ‘HP’, the Available Results could be ‘Share Price’, ‘Acquisition’, ‘Softwares’, and ‘Investments’.
  • Answer Questions:
    Kngine tries to understand the user intent of questions. For millions of questions, Kngine provides customized answers with each and every question asked.Simply type your question in natural language and Kngine will try to found the answer for you.
  • Enlist things:
    Kngine understands queries and dynamically adopts information from search results to provide suitable results. Kngine can provide list of movies when you search about ‘Jim Carrey Movies’, or list of space missions when you search about ‘Skylab Missions’.
  • Compare Concepts Altogether:
    Without leaving the search result page, user can compare Cell Photos, Countries GDPs, Companies net incomes, Concepts, and other comparable at a glance.
  • Other Enhancement:
    Kngine provides customers with updated live search experience such as: Weather Condition, Stock price, Currency Price, and Latest Sport match results.
  • And More:
    Kngine can now view Maps, song lyrics as well as built-in spell checking.

Kngine is our important first step toward the long-term goal. We promise to deliver innovations in search that enables people to find information quickly and use the information they found.

Source: Kngine.com

Grayboxx Releases National Version of Its Local Search Engine

January 24th, 2010 by Charles S. Knight
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Grayboxx, the local search engine, today announced that the company’s unique “neighbor-recommended” local search engine has concluded its national trial phase and is now available across the United States. Using its PreferenceScore technology, Grayboxx provides more than 185 million automated rankings and recommendations for local businesses in more than 4,000 yellow pages business categories. In addition to implicit neighbor recommendations and updates to the PreferenceScore algorithm, the national release of Grayboxx will allow users to see reviews gathered from third-party sites.

“Grayboxx’s PreferenceScore technology provides a way to easily poll a community’s interest and preference in a local business, anywhere, anytime,” said Bob Chandra, founder of Grayboxx. “Local search services that rely solely upon user-generated reviews do provide useful information, but there is a huge gap between the number of available reviews and the number of local businesses in the United States. Grayboxx’s depth and breadth of automatically generated local business rankings and recommendations reliably fills this gap.”

Source: Grayboxx.com