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Search Engines' Choices: Google v.s. hakia.com, Hakia (Sept 5) Melek Pulatkonak at Hakia noticed a paper by James Grimmelmann, an Associate Professor of Law at the New York Law School, who posed a telling question about Google, "Where is the...
Online Tech Tips (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Semantic search engines are making a buzz lately. Google, even with its own power and might of searching webpages, is one of the challenged search engines who don’t employ semantics on its rule to determine page relevance. Unlike Google who uses page ranking algorithms to determine if your searched phrase matches a webpage, Hakia uses a [...]
Alt Search Engines (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
FEATURES 1- Free usage up to 30,000 searches a day, no sponsored results. 2- Usage over 30,000 searches a day, you must sign up with hakia 3- Web search covers over 5 billion Web pages as well as News and Verticals 4- Option to deploy Site Search (only) of your choice (explained in the code) 5- Option to deploy vertical [...]
Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Firefox add-on that adds a new search tool to your browser.
Webware.com (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
In March, Radar Networks launched Twine, an application that organizes information and connects people, places, companies, products, Web pages, videos, and photos. Along with Metaweb's Freebase , Powerset (sold to Microsoft), Hakia , Reuter's Calias AdaptiveBlue and a few other startups, Radar Network is trying to crack the code on building a piece of the semantic Web. In the Times Online article...
Internet News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
If Google had Semantic Technology by Dr. Riza C Berkan, Hakia blog (July 18th, 2008 ) Semantic technology for search such as used at Hakia is completely different from the link-based technology used by Google (and others). In this posting Dr....
Internet News (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
SEO For Semantic Search Engines by Pierre Far, Search Engine Land (Jul 14) Compares 3 semantic search engines to Google: Powerset, Hakia, and Cognition. As the writer notes, these engines are still in beta and very young. Still they shine...
SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Yesterday, Yahoo announced the launch of Build your Own Search Service, aka BOSS . The program allows third parties to utilize Yahoo's index and ranking methodologies to create their own search engines. Semantic search engine, hakia, already using Yahoo search technology, announced that they would be leveraging BOSS to accelerate its advanced QDEX (Query Detection and Extraction) technology. "Accessing...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
NEW YORK, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- hakia, the Web's leading semantic search engine, today announced that it is leveraging Yahoo! Search BOSS(TM) [Build Your Own Search Service] to accelerate its semantic analysis of the World Wide Web. By leveraging BOSS technology, which was announced on July 9th, 2008, hakia now has access to vast amounts of Web documents and other resources in the Yahoo! Search infrastructure....
Alt Search Engines (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
By Dr. Christian Hempelmann, Chief Scientific Officer Ontological Semantics in our current proprietary version OntoSem 2.3 is hakia’s core natural language technology. It is a theory of language meaning with an interesting pedigree, one of its ancestors being the “Semantic Script Theory of Humor”, developed by Victor Raskin in 1985 in his book Semantic Mechanisms of [...]
Alt Search Engines (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
With Peggy Salz Mobile search was always exciting (at least for me - I’ve followed key developments since 2003). However, the rise of alternatives to Google in mobile (which MSG expertly tracks here and for our partner, AltSearchEngines), forces us to change our pre-conceived notions about what it takes to win, as well as the line-up [...]
D' Technology Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
hakia, is a general semantic search engine, dedicated to quality search results via its semantic search technology. “Semantic search technology enables accurate retrieval of information via concept/meaning match. It is very effective, and perhaps the only method, in application to credible and dynamic content. Because most of the credible and dynamic content are statistically flat (infertile) for popularity...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Semantic search engine Hakia today announced a set of APIs that opens up their natural language processing and search platform to developers. Hakia's Syndication Web Services really comes in two parts: search queries, which allow developers to add web search functionality leveraging Hakia's five billion page index, and XML feed calls, which give developers access to Hakia's underlying natural language...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Want to create your own semantic search engine, but just don’t have the PhDs? Semantic search engine Hakia is opening up APIs to let anyone build their own semantic search application on top of its technology. Hakia looks at the meaning of Web pages and matches search queries using its own quality index [...]
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
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 like Hakia, Powerset and Radar Networks / Twine. But now the company has come back to light, at least for us — a filing document reveals that the company has [...]
