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China Launches New Search Engine
stupidfoo writes "With all those nasty pro-democracy websites that Google keeps turning up, what's a communist country supposed to do? Well, create their own search engine of course! According to the AP, 'Bill Clinton on Monday helped launch a new Internet search company backed by the Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google Inc.' Accoona Corp. was one of the Chinese companies that donated an 'undisclosed amount' to the recently opened Clinton Library. Using the search engine from inside the US doesn't show any noticeable amount of censorship, but it also doesn't show how it's anywhere near the level of Google."
Knee Pads
Intern Job Listings
Porn
Cigars
Directions to the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor in Little Rock
Rose Law Firm Records
Cattle Future Stock Quotes
We slashdotted China!
We bastards!
But only an hour later, I was hungry for subversion again.
Guess he is just thanking the Chinese for all of those funds he rec'd, democracy be damned.
Que Pasa?
According to a Chinese government spokesperson, "Accoona is a more efficient search engine because while Google uses automated system applications to crawl the Internet and add to their databse, we have assigned 481.2 million Chinese citizens the task of manually surfing the Internet and cataloging every site by hand. They work faster and far cheaper than Google's automated software."
There you have it.
I'm a big tall mofo.
So that we know which one NOT to use?
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
I'm sorry, I just wanted to re-read that sentence in all its glory. And to pound my head on the desk every fourth or fifth word. I've discovered that the mental imagery starts to look more coherent if you soak the brain in at least three beers' worth of alcohol before applying the blunt force trauma.
On the bright side, if Fark ever holds a "Photoshop this Salvador Dali Masterpiece" contest, that sentence is gonna make me a surefire winner.
...claiming this is a dirty trick of Karl Rove?
Well, that explains why Bill Clinton is behind it. Slick Willy will do anything to advance the Republican agenda.
(Psst, that was me being sarcastic.)
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Japan is west of Seattle.
Perhaps you weren't aware of the fact that everywhere is west of somewhere.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
Accoona!
"Pawning the Filthy
Web since 2004"
[ ] [Search]
(c)2004 Accoona Corp.
Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages
Censoring 8,058,044,651 web pages
The Chinese apparently want a site with "no worries"
(Yes, I know, it's spelled wrong. I don't care)
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google
Perhaps they focused so much on "better than Google" that they forget to load-test it? AI software is not known for speed. Right now it is probably thinking:
"Hmmmm. 8000% more requests than I can handle? Should I lock up? Just process the first one? Let's check the rules database. Wup, that's flooded also. This flow-chart from Bob may offer a clue. It has heuristics prepared by somebody in a similar situation. Okay, it says, "call Mom". Okay.....what? I have no Mom? Hmmmm. Now why don't I have a Mom? Let's go research that....."
Table-ized A.I.
It's currently censored by not returning any results.
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We could sell Dr. Kervorkian type services to them... what a money maker!
Search for linux and get microsoft.com as the first result.
Feeling Lucky?
So, now China will have the Fox News of search engines.
Both extremes meet in the middle and do the same..
I looked up destroy china....
The first link was to a spyware cleaner.
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
--Santa Claus
In Korea, only old people use nuclear power.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -- Hanlon's Razor
I typed in '"human rights" china'. The first result was "Human Rights on Ebay". Apparantly, Ebay sells everything including Human Rights. Perhaps China could get a good deal on it!