SearchMonkey allows developers and site owners for making Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites. Technology analysis Site owners are invited to make structured data available as Microformats, RSS, RDF or any data feed Developers are invited to program SearchMonkey application that uses the structured data [...]
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Google Answers was an online knowledge market offered by Google that allowed users to post bounties for well researched answers to their queries. Asker-accepted answers cost $2 to $200. Google retained 25% of the researcher’s reward and a 50 cent fee per question. In addition to the Researcher’s fees, a client who was satisfied with [...]
Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven knowledge market website launched by Yahoo! on December 13, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users. The site gives members the chance to earn points as a way to encourage participation and is based on Naver’s Knowledge iN. As [...]
Fast Search & Transfer ASA (recursive acronym FAST) is a Norwegian company based in Oslo. FAST focuses on data search technologies. It also has offices located in Germany, Italy, Sri Lanka, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Brazil, Mexico and other countries around the world. The company was founded in 1997. On April [...]
ChaCha is a mobile answering service which uses a technique known as social searching (a type of web search method that determines the relevance of search results by considering the interactions or contributions of users). [Website http://www.chacha.com/]
Autonomy Corporation PLC is an enterprise software company with joint head quarters in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and San Francisco, USA. The company uses a combination of technologies borne out of research at the University of Cambridge . It develops a variety of enterprise search and knowledge management applications using adaptive pattern recognition techniques centered on [...]
Powerset is a company based in San Francisco, California that is developing a natural language search engine for the Internet. Powerset is working on building a natural language search engine that can find targeted answers to user questions (as opposed to keyword based search). For example, when confronted with a question of the form ‘which [...]
Cuil (pronounced [ku?l], “cool“, according to the creators) is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. It claims to have a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. It went live on July 28, 2008. [...]
