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IBM Targets UFOs, Ghosts, and Goblins With Search Tool

Posted by samzenpus on from the isn't-halloween-over dept.

coondoggie writes "IBM wants to help you find out if UFOs are real. Well, sort of. With UFO sightings seemingly on the rise, Big Blue is teaming with The Anomalies Network to offer UFO Crawler, a new search engine specifically tuned to search for information about the paranormal, unexplained or just plain bizarre. The search tool employs IBM's OmniFind Yahoo! Edition enterprise search software and the UFO Crawler should help users precisely target and gather information from relevant sources, including thousands of documents and files collected in the vast Anomalies Network archive, as well as multiple global resources across the Web on topics such as such as ghosts, conspiracy theories and extraterrestrials."

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  1. While... by Icarus1919 · · Score: 4, Funny

    While I understand that this is probably good for pageviews and thus revenue, do we really have to encourage these people?

  2. Don't click the link! by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's what they want you to do!

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  3. Mulder would have been happy.... by rd · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sitting here on the couch watching X Files thinking that this may have made Mulder and Scully's job a bit easier...

    1. Re:Mulder would have been happy.... by BendingSpoons · · Score: 2, Funny

      Scully, I've received another report of spontaneous human combustion. Quick - to the IBM's OmniFind Yahoo! Edition enterprise search software with UFO Crawler!

      With any luck, we'll find a few geocities pages documenting this bizarre phenomenon. If we're extremely lucky, we might even come across a few poorly animated gifs of the combustion process.

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      For all we know the moon may be as conscious as a poet or a realtor, and extremely weary of its monotonous round. - HLM
  4. ufologist by BigHungryJoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a trained Ufologist and I'm thinking I would NEVER trust a search engine from IBM - that would be like giving me a UFO search engine written by the US gov't. I *KNOW* where the files I need to see are - they are in gov't bldgs at Area 51 and I don't need a search engine to tell me that.

  5. UFO's, Ghosts . . . Meteor Freaks? by e_armadillo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmmmmm, a searchable "Wall of Weird", cool.

  6. Re:Military projects by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow man, it's a good thing you aren't one of those "crazies" that you talk about or you would have posted some bizarre rant about one world government and interdimensional beings instead of this well-thought-out rational discourse.

  7. Re:Nothing New - A Real Yahoo! by JohnnyLocust · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe we could use it to find Duke Nukem Forever

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  8. Re:How many people really believe in these things? by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it was shot down, it would also lose the F, and it would just be an O.

  9. Thank you everyone. by bigwhatever · · Score: 2, Funny

    My faith in humanity is restored, temporarily.

    For the first time in my life, I'm seeing a crowd that doesn't wonder if Egyptian hieroglyphs, crop circles, and the Xbox 360 all have the same origin. (link)

  10. Re:How many people really believe in these things? by Zephyros · · Score: 2, Funny

    When you shoot one down, you tend to lose the "F" as well. Which pretty much just makes it an object.

  11. Targeting Ghosts 'n Goblins? by Pluvius · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good luck, IBM. I don't think even Blue Gene could beat that video game.

    Rob

  12. Re:Military projects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Prokofy's Razor: Given two equally predictive theories, choose the most complex conspiracy.

  13. wow, me too! by c6gunner · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm a scientician with a BS in ufology! We should team up!

  14. Re:How many people really believe in these things? by ShibaInu · · Score: 2, Funny

    To quote the Simpsons: We have reached the limits of what anal probing can teach us!