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Accoona - How Does This Search Engine Rate?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the google-competition dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "How many of you have tried the new AI-based search engine, Accoona? How does it compare with the other big search engines (Google, MSN Search, Yahoo, etc)? In late 2004, the Associated Press reported that Bill Clinton helped launch the company behind the engine, which is also backed by the Chinese Government. The EETimesUK has another article which describes how the search engine is supposed to work." For those who have tried Accoona, how would you rate the accuracy of its results?

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  1. I'd have to say no... by hacker · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just tried it with several of our OSS project pages (which rank PR7 or higher), and Accoona doesn't even list the main project homepage well into the 4th and 5th page of results. I gave up after that. Google, Yahoo and MSN all have the project pages as the first or second hit, across all three of those engines.

  2. Re:Never heard of it... by Anonymous+Freak · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, looks like a blatant piece of 'advertising by submitting to Slashdot' to me.

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  3. Doesn't repect quoted strings by blamanj · · Score: 4, Informative

    I tried a search with a two-word quoted string, and the first result had the two words in separate paragraphs. That's not good.

  4. AI huh. by moochfish · · Score: 3, Informative

    So I read this little press release and I wasn't that impressed. You want to talk about context parsing? Google started that type of search innovation. Not commonly known is that Google even suppresses ads when it guesses its users are searching without any intentions of making purchases, such as for research. This is illustrated here:

    Search Argentina
    Search Population
    Search Both (no ads)

    I'd say that's pretty contextual if you ask me. This search engine is a bunch of hype, and much farther behind than it thinks.

  5. Re:Matata by StikyPad · · Score: 3, Informative

    a) It's the name of a song, not a movie.
    b) Titles can't be copyrighted.
    c) Trademarks can only be enforced against confusingly similar products. IE, not a search engine vs. a theme park.
    d) The Disney spelling is Hakuna Matata.
    e) The tradmark is Class 25 (See: Your own link) which means it's for clothing.

    So no, to answer your question, they're not.

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  6. Re:Interestingly... by ajdlinux · · Score: 3, Informative

    BTW, http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://accoona.com gives interesting results.