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0 Kngine: An awesome semantic search engine, costing just $1K a month

If you haven’t used the search engine Kngine yet, check it out next time you’re doing some research online.

It’s taken another step toward solving...

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0 Does Facebook Really Want a Semantic Web?

Two weeks ago, Facebook has announced a major new initiative called Facebook Open Graph. This is an attempt to not only re-imagine Facebook, but in a...

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0 Search and Rescue: 6 Approaches to Semantic Data Collection

It's been more than ten years since Tim Berners-Lee first spoke about the semantic web and computers indexing all web-based data. He said, "The...

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0 Semantic Search Engine Gets Help from Facebook Friends

Perhaps the biggest problem with natural language search is that it's incredibly difficult to try and automate machine-assigned ontologies....

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0 Wolfram Alpha: The Next Google, Or the Next Cuil?

There’s always an urge to declare a major new player in search as a “Google killer” because of its unique approach to the space, its celebrated...

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0 NetBase Offers Powerful Semantic Indexing Platform That Reads The Web

Regular search engines such as Google and Yahoo use statistics to make sense of the Web. They count links, keywords, and other items on a page to...

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0 True Knowledge CEO to sit on Semantic Search panel (March 30th)

True Knowledge CEO William Tunstall-Pedoe will join representatives from Powerset/Live search, Truevert and TextDigger in a panel focused on semantic...

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0 Semantic Web Wish List 2009

At the end of last year we presented our list of the top 10 Semantic Web Apps of 2008. ReadWriteWeb reader Zoltán Andrejkovics wrote in to us...

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0 Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies

In this article, we'll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We'll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify...

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0 Top 100 Products of 2008

Over December we've published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into...

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0 BooRah Discusses Semantic Search at SES Chicago

Semantic search is now becoming a regular track at many search conferences.  I’ll be a panelist along with Yahoo, Microsoft/Powerset, TextDigger &...

  • Source: boorah.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Nov 29, 2008
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0 Weekly Wrapup: Google Search Wiki, Semantic Apps, Mozilla Addons, And More...

It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we pondered the future of YouTube, analyzed mobile...

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0 10 Semantic Apps to Watch - One Year Later

In November 2007, we listed and reviewed 10 promising Semantic Web apps. A lot can happen in one year on the Internet, so we thought we'd check back...

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0 What’s Your Favorite Search Engine?

This article is part of the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.

There’s no shortage of startups...

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0 Powerset at Web 3.0 next week

Powerset is excited to be participating in Web 3.0, held in Santa Clara from October 16-17, 2008. 

Scott Prevost, Powerset’s general manager, will be...

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0 Where Are All The RDF-based Semantic Web Apps?

RDF is the cornerstone of The Semantic Web, yet there still very few commercial RDF apps.

In the latest issue of Nodalities, a magazine about the...

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0 Do Semantic Search Companies Need a Semantic Map? It's All Semantics...

This week we reported that Cognition had announced "the largest commercially available Semantic Map of the English language." In our interview with...

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2 Semantics + Google = SemantiFind

SemantiFind is a newly launched semantic search tool which made its debut at the recent DEMO conference. Unlike other semantic search engines such as...

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0 Cognition Announces "World's Largest Semantic Map"

Cognition Technologies, a Semantic Web company that specialises in Natural Language Processing (NLP) search, is today announcing the release of what...

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0 Cognition Releases the Largest Semantic Map of English Language

Today Cognition, creator of an already much-discussed natural language processing technology, is announcing release of its new semantic map which is...

  • Source: profy.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Sep 16, 2008
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0 Cuil a failure; still dreams high with a $200 million valuation

I bit my fingernails off when I read VentureBeat reporting of Cuil being valued at $200 million in the second round just before the Great Search...

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0 Crenk How Has Site Links Within Google Search

Here at Crenk we have been making a lot of strides in the last few months. Today is no exception, I just received an email from one of our readers...

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0 Yahoo BOSS Used To Create Powerset For Images and More

Yahoo has highlighted a few more implementations of BOSS, the search API it launched in early July that allows third party websites to incorporate...

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0 How to Create a Viable Search Competitor

Aseem Kishore is the lead blogger for Online-Tech-Tips, a technology blog covering a wide variety of topics including how-to tips, software reviews,...

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0 Is Google Good Enough?

Between the collapse of the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover bid, Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Powerset, and the launch of Cuil by a crew of Xooglers,...

  • Source: endeca.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Aug 11, 2008
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0 Semantic Search - Panel Discussion at SES San Jose 2008

I’ll be a panelist at SES San Jose 2008 along with Yahoo, Ask.com, Powerset and Hakia on a session about Semantic Search. Semantic technologies are...

  • Source: boorah.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Aug 10, 2008
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0 Ixquick Search Puts Privacy Front and Center, and the EU Approves

As a Web user who regularly exercises the power of the Google algorithm and the secret sauce that lubes the gears, and who willingly submits to the...

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0 Search engine know-it-alls wanted for Slate article [Cuil]

My fellow semi-intellectuals at Slate want your input: "Monday's launch of Cuil, the latest search engine gunning for Google, brings us to this...

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0 Cuil Crashes And Burns At Launch

By: Jason Lee Miller
Crashing right after launch is, apparently, a startup rite of passage. If, however, you’ve touted your new search engine as a...

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1 The Read Write Execute Web

The next iteration of the web will enable individuals to evaluate information. Web 1.0 allowed us to have read access to info. Web 2.0 is about...

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3 Evri Beta Launches: Search Less - Understand More

Evri, a Paul Allen backed semantic search engine, is launching into a limited beta tonight. Evri was first shown publicly at the D6 conference. Evri's...

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9 Semantic search startup TextDigger unearths a business model, and some venture funding

TextDigger, a semantic search startup that launched early last year at DEMO, has been much quieter in the interim than other companies in the space...

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0 11 Search Trends That May Disrupt Google

My first post for ReadWriteWeb (nearly a year ago) started with the premise that search was "game over", that Google had won and the only opportunity...

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1 People in Tech: Andraz Tori, CTO/Co-Founder of Zemanta

Zemanta is a an interesting European startup that is applying semantic technologies to blogging.
Sarah Perez covered the company's launch in March....

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0 Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality

For a few years now people have been talking about semantic search.
Any technology that stands a chance to dethrone Google is of great interest
to all...

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0 Semantics In, Popularity Out

We congratulate Powerset for their launch. Some people must have a gun pointed at their heads to rush to a conclusion using one or two examples....

  • Source: hakia.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: May 14, 2008
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0 Stealth Search Engine Blekko Gets Money From Marc Andreessen, SoftTech

2008 is the year of the search engine startup. Hot on the heels of Powerset’s partial launch earlier this week, stealth search engine Blekko (no logo,...

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0 VentureLoop Insider Startup News: 4/17/08

Startup News Fewer venture capital firms are raising money 8 Tips For Landing The Perfect Startup Job Is Sequoia Capital expanding into hedge funds?...

  • Source: typepad.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Apr 24, 2008
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0 Cognition Releases Search Software

Los Angeles-based Cognition Technologies, which is developing natural language processing software for the search and software application market,...

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2 AltSearchEngines Get Together: Monday 21 April, San Francisco

Our network blog AltSearchEngines is holding an invitation only gathering of search engines on Monday 21 April, in San Francisco. This private event,...

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2 Using Semantic Search to Cure Disease, Prevent Animal Testing

One of the big trends in 2008 has been the emergence of what I call Semantic Apps - a kind of 'Web 2.0 Meets Semantic Web' app typified by startups...

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0 Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies

In this article, we'll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We'll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify...

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