True Knowledge: Natural Language Search Engine

Making a natural language search engine for the masses–keep it on the DL.
True Knowledge is an internet search company that has produced as a key product, a new natural language search engine, although they don’t say that. Also missing is “semantic.” I only mention this because it seems to me that True Knowledge and Freebase [...]

Ask.com Commercial Challenges Current Search Audience

Less challenge to competitors and more challenge to search audience.
This recent Ask.com TV commercial asks the audience “Does your search engine do this?” Answer: an Ask.com search results page that combines text results with image, video and even music, an assortment of mixed media.
Will messages like this create search users that [...]

Semantic Web Has Spawned Trivia

What ever happened to Hexbot?
Semantic web actually has a growing bunker of trivia tidbits.
In spring 2004 a steady barrage of press releases heralded HexBot as an all around digital life form that was designed to do it all. But what happened to this semantic web prodigy? The domain name has been sold– Hexbot MIA.
Hmmmm. Maybe [...]

New Biomedical Semantic Search Engine

GoPubMed’s Cool Feature…   
GoPubMed is a new semantic search engine designed to deliver the ultimate research muscle to the biomedical, medical, and life sciences realm. Researchers, scientists, and general users may gain quicker more “cross-pollinated” search results for deeply layered data requests.
One of the more intriguing features of GoPubMed is the “Hot Research.” This is [...]

Who is Cyc?

Some search engines vie for fairy dust, others just ante up the goods.

Semantic search engines vie to harness the same fairy dust as did Google–once upon a time. But charismatic, enigmatic, and dismissive geeky upstarts that make billions upon billions of dollars of course earn as many foes as they do dough. My point is [...]

Semantic Suggestion

New Search “Signage” Fills the Gap Between Now and Later
On 9/28 the Hakia blog post stirred the pot of interesting semantic web issues–my essential takeway: are we at a point in which we are technologically mature enough to handle SW, or are our behaviors and satisfactions attached to technology (current search engines) too rooted to [...]

Powerset Tease

Powerset is playing its launch very safe, measured doses, just a little bit at a time. I just read their schpiel on Power Mouse and Use Cases. Clearly Use Cases capabilities really show the versatility of language nuance that’s being built into their engine.

The Question Asked

What Does Hakia Have that Google Does Not and What Does Google Have that Hakia Does Not?
Google’s Basics of Search tips say that words like who, what, and how are summarily dropped from Google search queries simply because this is how keyword-centric engines operate. I now know this is occasionally the reason for weak [...]

How to Properly Query a Semantic Search Engine

I have been using Hakia.com when I wax completely wigged out over some info I cannot dig up via Google. Hakia, is a semantic search engine in a Beta phase. I was just reading the blog “over there,” which has an intriguing post on the proper way to test new semantic search engines. The biggest [...]

Some Info I Missed on Powerset

Mark Johnson, a Powerset product manager, reminded me that the search engine also offers up search results with some nifty highlighting so you really can see how relevant your search is. Visually pinpoint the data for which you’re sifting on a page of blah, blah, blah–in a jiffy. Very usable.