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Could IBM Shake up the Search Engine World?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slow-approach-then-wham-wham-wham dept.

overshoot writes "IBM has just tossed a bucket of chum into the whole search showdown, which Microsoft thought was between them and Google. Apparently, IBM Research has developed a 'key facts' search technology (as distinct from 'key words') over the last several years. Now they're going public with it -- by putting it on SourceForge under an OSS license!" (According to the article, it's expected to show up on SourceForge by the end of this year, not immediately.)

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  1. Slow down IBM ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The search bar on your site barely works as it is.

  2. SourceForge proposal... by RoadkillBunny · · Score: 2, Funny

    It will be funny if sf.net denies them. But then, I guess they got a deal with them already.

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  3. ok but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll stick to letting Google know every single detail of my life thanks.

  4. Yay. by Sinryc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yay, now EVERYONE can make their own Search Engine and say how they are SO much better then everyone elses!

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    1. Re:Yay. by TheOtherAgentM · · Score: 2, Funny

      I plan to make mine far inferior, but drive people to use my search engine with spyware.

  5. chum and guns by Burz · · Score: 4, Funny

    a bucket of chum into the whole search showdown,

    This is an awful mixed metaphor. How does Slashdot expect its readers to navigate the treacherous IT seas with such poorly-seasoned and half-baked information?

    1. Re:chum and guns by overshoot · · Score: 5, Funny
      This is an awful mixed metaphor. How does Slashdot expect its readers to navigate the treacherous IT seas with such poorly-seasoned and half-baked information?

      It's easy when you're three sheets to the wind, even if you pepper your reply with editorial condiments. Anyway, the goose is sufficiently sauced to be worth a gander.

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    2. Re:chum and guns by CaptainCarrot · · Score: 5, Funny
      I know! It throws a monkey wrench into that entire kettle of fish! There's no foothold you could sink your teeth into! It blows your mind from the ground up!

      ...and so forth.

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  6. I, for one, ... by kaan · · Score: 2, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new chum-tossing search-engine overlords...

  7. Re:Spotlight! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Depends on watts and type of bulb.

  8. Re:what about yahoo!? by Punboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Plus, those who think that the address bar are for system commands (and are thus afraid of it) and the search-bar is where you type in the website address o.O

    My grandparents are weird.

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  9. Just for Reference by AoT · · Score: 4, Funny

    10 tads = 1 few

    10 fews = 1 some

    10 somes = 1 alot

    10 alots = 1 load

    10 loads = 1 buttload

    10 buttloads = 1 assload

    10 assloads = 1 shitload

    10 shitloads = 1 fuckload

    I do not have the book here or I would give the non-metric chart, you know how hard it is to remeber how many hogsheads are in an imperial buttload?

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  10. Re:http://almaden.ibm.com/cs/crawler by johnnytv · · Score: 2, Funny

    /usr/local/bin/laden

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