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Stories · 5

  1. Grokker Search Engine Provides Visual Search Results

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the sounds-like-kartoo dept. · 96 comments
    KeatonMill writes "The New York Times (as always, free registration) ran this article about a new search engine, called Grokker, created by a company called Groxis. Grokker builds a map of content catagories using metadata. So far, it is used in the Amazon.com online catalog and the Northern Light search engine. Groxis is also developing a version to use to search your own computer."

  2. Comparison Of Google to Teoma

    Links · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the compare-and-contrast dept. · 151 comments
    randomErr writes "SearchEngineWatch.com was compared the good and the bad of both engine. They wrote the cool thing about Teoma is that its community-seeking behavior is both query-specific, and happens in real time. Whenever you type in a query, we're actually looking for the communities after you type the query. Teoma's approach differs from Google's, which uses a similar, but more static ranking system. It's also unlike the approach taken by Northern Light that classify web pages based on pre-defined categories."

  3. Northern Light Technology Makes Deal WIth C.I.A.

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the focusing-on-revenues dept. · 125 comments
    Llywelyn writes: "The C.I.A. has evidently written up a contract with the group Northern Light Technology to develop a search engine that can sort through the C.I.A's increasing mound of unprocessed data. Unfortunately, one of the consequences of this is that Northern Light's public search engine is fated for destruction later this month. " It's inevitable, IMHO, that some of this happen - the search engine world is overpopulated right now, and with the economic downturn, more and more companies will move to where they can survive.

  4. Open Source Developer Lab Looking For Board Members

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the get-yer-voice-in dept. · 10 comments
    A reader writes: "I noticed that the Open Source Development Lab is looking for nominations and commentary on the Community Nominations to the Board. They've got some of the usual suspects on there, but will also take other suggestions. The organization was profiled by Nick Petreley a while back as well."

  5. Search Engines Can't Keep Up

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the ever-growing-www dept. · 82 comments
    joshwa writes "The Boston Globe today reported a study by Nature saying that search engines barely index one-sixth of the pages on the net. To a certain extent it's a plug for the Northern Light search engine, which claims to be the most comprehensive (at a staggering 16 percent of the web), but it's an interesting read nonetheless. "