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IBMs "Clever" Search Engine

Derek Pomery writes "Scientific American Online has a new article by an IBM team concerning their new search engine, named "Clever". Clever is a link based search engine, but the logic is a little different then Google (they compare the two). It'll be interesting to see which is more effective. "

59 comments

  1. Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Seems like the http://slashdot.org page was slightly messed up... After clicking on the article it did show the article about IBM's search stuff however.

  2. What the heck happened? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The post on the main page is blank... bug?

  3. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well, this is weird... When I displayed the main slashdot page, it didn't display right... The table for THIS news clipping was not filled out.

    Is this a bug? =) I have kept a capture of the source so maybe it can be tracked down.

    --Jets, brc@micron.net

  4. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well, this is weird... When I displayed the main slashdot page, it didn't display right... The table for THIS news clipping was not filled out.

    Is this a bug? =) I have kept a capture of the source so maybe it can be tracked down.

    --Jets, brc@micron.net

  5. Any objective comparisons? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So, are there any evaluations as to which search engines work best these days? Perhaps dependent on the topic?

  6. Any objective comparisons? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So, are there any evaluations as to which search engines work best these days? Perhaps dependent on the topic?

  7. Evil IBM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sounds interesting, but IBM are Evil (TM)

  8. aarg! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    slashdot is broken!!!!!!!

  9. hrm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    mrm

  10. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well, this is weird... When I displayed the main slashdot page, it didn't display right... The table for THIS news clipping was not filled out.

    Is this a bug? =) I have kept a capture of the source so maybe it can be tracked down.

    --Jets, brc@micron.net

  11. front page? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Am I the only one who's noticed the front page hasn't updated properly ? :)

    -JC

  12. Is ./ messed up? I'm getting junk? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Crazy Chinese Government hackers again?

  13. Slahsdot hosed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is it just me, or has Slashdot not been working properly in the past few hours? This article was blank!

  14. malda, this is fucked up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    this is really messed up, "IBMs 'Clever' Search Engine" and "MIT Critters" are fucked up, as are everything up til may 10th quickies

  15. Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well no matter how clever they cant match googles marketable name...

  16. hello? anybody out there? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sorry for this, but I'm getting REALLY STRANGE output from ./
    Is anybody else getting it?

  17. not much here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    testing..

  18. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    :/

  19. Search Engines by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yahoo will always be superior. Every other search engines never return what you want.

    Yahoo may not have as many sites listed, but you are far more likely to find the contant you requested.
    I never use Lycos or Infoseek because they never give me anything except a bunch of useless links. Never tried Google so I wont pass judgement

  20. ?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ??

  21. first comment? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    heheh.."posted by on, from the dept." Right. Care to explain? :)
    this might be my first first comment.. that's some kinda milestone, isn't it?

  22. !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    first post !!!!!!!!!!!!
    LINUX R00LZ THA WURLD D00DZ

  23. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    downgrade me quick!

  24. Awesome article. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is the sort of material that really
    matters, I am surprised at the lack of response.
    Keep up the good work guys!

  25. MAJOR PORTALS NO LONGER CARE ABOUT "SEARCH" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    personalization, multimedia, e-commerce - thats where the jazz is right now.

    google and clever are sideshows that will stay sideshows.

  26. Is it just me or is /. badly broken? by caferace · · Score: 1

    Heres the topic title: Posted by on from the dept.

    I want to die peacefully in my sleep as my grandfather did...

  27. Cool article. by khaladan · · Score: 1

    I want to see more of this on Slashdot!

    Hehe :)

  28. Hell yeah! by Indomitus · · Score: 1

    I totally agree! Those monkeys have been causing trouble long enough!

  29. /. is broken! by gavinhall · · Score: 0

    Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:

    something is wrong! all the articles have dissappeared! Please bring them back! Please!

  30. Hmm.. by gavinhall · · Score: 1

    Posted by Jordan Running:

    Well, I for one found it quite informative... it's a Zen thing.

  31. Amazing!! by BadlandZ · · Score: 1

    Absolutely Astounding! I can't believe this is real, can you provide some referances to back up this story?? ;-) Sorry, couldn't help myself

  32. uhh... by peterjm · · Score: 1

    I may really be missing something, perhaps another netscape bug, but, it seems to me that something is _very_ wrong with slashdot on this afternoon...did I just mangage to slide in at a funny time? anyone else?

  33. I complete disagree by Dr.+Ed · · Score: 1

    This person doesn't know what there're talking about!!

    Flame, flame flame.....

    ;>}

  34. hey by mikpos · · Score: 0

    My name is SuperTRON (aka GOZON).

  35. weirdness by j · · Score: 1

    Are articles today (5/11/1999) showing up wonky, or is that just me?

  36. Slashdot Apears to be broken by happybob · · Score: 1

    Hrm...
    A completely empy article.

    All of today's news items, gone...

    looks like the database too a dump or something.

    scottwimer

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  37. weird, the story isn't even posted yet by adraken · · Score: 1

    strange

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  38. Uhm? by phazer · · Score: 1

    Something's fubared..
    there's a empty post on the mainpage and below that are yesterdays posts...

  39. This is ground control to Commander Taco by Mooset · · Score: 1

    Houston, we have a problem.
    Blank stories, cached stories... something is not right in slashworld.

    1. Re:This is ground control to Commander Taco by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 1

      Sounds like this one is worthy of a mention somewhere. Towards the end of the day, www.slashdot.org wasn't responding to a ping, and a traceroute ended one hop before the final destination. Right now, the "uptime" box shows that this system has been up for ~10 hours.

      So the server went down... but what happened to all the stories? The the drive crater on us?

  40. This story is broken... by Rayban · · Score: 1

    This story seems to be broken on the front page. The only way I can get to it is by clicking "Read More". On the front page, it's just a blank story w/o a title, but all the other stories are intact. Weird, huh?

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  41. You don't say... by Zico · · Score: 1

    ??

    Cheers,
    ZicoKnows@hotmail.com

  42. Whats all this? by breadf-n · · Score: 1

    is it just me????

    Damn Internet Exploiter...

  43. It's broken! by r3df1v3 · · Score: 1

    ACK!

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  44. Beta? Not Even Close by Nater · · Score: 1

    It's written on every page /. serves.

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  45. hmmm.... by _Stryker · · Score: 1

    Looks like Slashdot is on crack or something at the moment!
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  46. What happened? by wesmills · · Score: 1

    This story has a broken picture and no text...

  47. Wooo... by Ellis-D · · Score: 0

    It's blank!
    "Windows 98 Second Edition works and players better than ever." -Microsoft's Home page on Win98SE.

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  48. this is not a subject by laura20 · · Score: 1

    Wow. Riveting prose :)

  49. whoops? by tenchiken · · Score: 1

    huh?

  50. Wow. by krog · · Score: 1

    damn. that's some shit.

  51. this seems odd by krog · · Score: 1

    especially considering /. was just down for a little while. is the irate Chinese script kids at it?

  52. Where *is* a clever search engine? by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 2

    Okay, I read the article. But I felt like I missed something importantly. Namely, the search engine itself.

    I was reading how they compare it to Google, saying that the Google search is faster. Does that mean that the Clever search engine will yield better results, but takes hell of computational time?

    It is going to be a search engine that scales, or is it going to be stuck in 'research mode' until hardware can catch up to the programming?

  53. Nice topic, eh by phreax · · Score: 1

    Now this one is quite good.

  54. I lost my toe! by spoon42 · · Score: 1

    uhh... beavis?

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  55. Sweet by empath · · Score: 1

    This is a quality story, here :)

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  56. The ever-loving gnulix guy says: by gnulix+guy · · Score: 1

    Time to reboot! :-)

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  57. oh by jawsh · · Score: 1

    oh, i see.

  58. Hello? by paperclip · · Score: 1

    Yes....?

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