Archive for July, 2008
Search engines springing up like mushrooms
The U.S. online advertising market is huge and the spending on it still growing. This is also why a great deal of search engines strive for gaining market share at Google’s expense. It’s funny, but some of them got already picked up by giants like Microsoft. However, gazing at the ones below it’s arguable whether the future of search simply belongs to semantic search engines. One thing is for sure though, the road to success is yet to be paved…
Among the latest innovations are:
- Hakia - A semantic search experience.
- Powerset - Ready. Powerset. Go.
- SearchCloud - A new approach to search.
- FAST - The search revolution.
- SearchMe - iTuned visual search.
- Snap - Classic. Enhanced. Image.
- Grokker - One search. Many sources. Broad discovery. Dynamic research.
Micro black holes, vacuum bubbles, and more
Just a few more days to go until the go live of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva. Physicists will use the particle accelerator to study the smallest known particles. This might include phenomena such as micro black holes, vacuum bubbles, and magnetic monopoles, which could emerge as a result of high-energy particle collisions.
In case expressions such as biggest, hottest, emptiest, and most powerful attract your attention check out: Facts and Figures. Have fun.
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