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Dorthy: Search and Dream in Public
Written by Dana Oshiro / November 18, 2009 9:00 PM / 2 Comments

At first glance, the phrase "dream achievement service" conjures images of people in head scarves listening to self-help tapes. Nevertheless, in the case of semantic search service Dorthy, "dream achievement"

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Will Startups.com Suffer from Quantity over Quality?
Written by Dana Oshiro / November 5, 2009 1:30 PM / 7 Comments

Earlier today we posted about Answers.com's rise as a revenue and page-view generator. Through user-generated Q&A posted to WikiAnswers, the company is crowdsourcing heaps of daily content, ranking high in

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Could Wowd Be the Skype of Real-Time Search? Private Beta Invites
Written by Jolie O'Dell / September 21, 2009 9:30 PM / 8 Comments

Trying to explain Wowd, a Silicon Valley-based search venture, is a buzzword extravaganza. Using cloud architecture and crowdsourced data on web pages, this real-time discovery and recommendation engine ranks pages

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Search by Sentiment: RankSpeed Gives Users a New Tool to Filter Results
Written by Jolie O'Dell / September 10, 2009 9:31 AM / 4 Comments

What's the easiest travel website? The best test prep software? The most powerful and secure online payment processor? How would you find the answers to these questions, at least from

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Real-Time Search Outfit Collecta Releases API, Offers MacBook Pro for the Best App
Written by Jolie O'Dell / September 10, 2009 9:00 AM / 1 Comments

Collecta, the real-time search startup we reviewed in May and again in June, is releasing their API today and announcing that the developer of the best application will receive a

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Spezify: Visual Search Done Right
Written by Jolie O'Dell / August 2, 2009 9:09 PM / 5 Comments

Stockholm-based startup Spezify is a visual search engine that impresses with relevant results displayed in a visual but still functional way. Founded by Felix af Ekenstam and Per Persson, digital

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LazyFeed: Get the News, Vids, and Pics You Want Without Even Trying
Written by Jolie O'Dell / July 12, 2009 3:04 PM / 6 Comments

Appealing to users' laziness is a two-sided coin. On the one hand, you risk offending users who like to think of themselves as essentially industrious, on-top-of-it, finger-on-the-pulse go-getters. On the

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Semantic Search Engine Gets Help from Facebook Friends
Written by Dana Oshiro / June 23, 2009 3:00 AM / 4 Comments

Perhaps the biggest problem with natural language search is that it's incredibly difficult to try and automate machine-assigned ontologies. Essentially, machines just don't get it. This is precisely the

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