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The IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering has just published a Special Issue of its Bulletin on “New Avenues in Search”.

Contents

Letters

• Letter from the Editor-in-Chief, David Lomet
• Letter from the Special Issue Editor, Sihem Amer-Yahia

Papers

• A Characterization of Online Search Behavior, Ravi Kumar and Andrew Tomkins
• Kosmix: Exploring the Deep Web using Taxonomies and Categorization, Anand Rajaraman
• Flexible Querying of Personal Information, Amelie Marian and Wei Wang
• iMeMex: From Search to Information Integration and Back, Jens Dittrich, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles and Lukas Blunschi
• Challenges, Techniques and Directions in Building XSeek: an XML Search Engine, Ziyang Liu, Peng Sun, Yu Huang, Yichuan Cai and Yi Chen
• Searching Shared Content in Communities with the Data Ring, Serge Abiteboul, Neoklis Polyzotis
• The Social Future of Web Search: Modeling, Exploiting, and Searching Collaboratively Generated Content, Eugene Agichtein, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, and Hongyuan Zha

Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevent videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix’s categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web even if they don’t know exactly what they’re looking for.
Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. They later created Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk.
Kosmix is funded by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures and Jeff Bezos’ personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions.
Kosmix began as a vertical search engine, initially introducing health site www.RightHealth.com as a proof-of-concept for the Kosmix approach to Web navigation. RightHealth is now the #2 health site on the Web, according to Hitwise. In June 2008, Kosmix expanded its focus from vertical to a complete horizontal play.

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