is a natural language examine engine that can use everyday phrases and grammer to conduct more accruate web searches by understanding the search query and the pages it indexes. Parsing phrases and grammer theoretically produces better results because the egine has a exceed understanding of the searches intended goal than with just keywords alone. For instance a Powerset search for “politicians who died in office” returns information on the subset of politicians who died in office rather than a assort of pages that ranked highly with the phrase.
makes artificially intelligent user interfaces. Their main product is the SILVIA (Symbolically Isolated. Linguistically Variable. Intelligence Algorithms) platform which can add a human-like artificially intelligent interface to nearly any digital device. The SILVIA platform can learn and converse in natural language to displace out tasks for the user. Potential applications include children’s digital toys and personal assistants.
Flagship product: “silvia platform” Symoblically isolated linguistically variable intelligence algorithm. Laymens terms: AI.
Demonstration with AI on the check the AI system is having a conversation with one of the Cognitive Code. A couple of bugs in the live demo but pretty cool.
is trying to build one of the web’s best video search engines by creating a rich list of contextual data about videos and an easy to use interface for searching them. The engine pieces together context for a video based on it’s metadata the circumscribe surrounding it and the circumscribe of pages linking to the video. Notably. CastTV also searches paid video searches such as Apple iTunes. Their user interface allows users to choose results by shows (to weed out non-relevant cram) host (such as itunes. CBS Innertube etc to cerebrate on a favorite service provider) by date relevance prices etc.
is a peer-to-peer web search engine that has no centralized index and crawler. Each web page visited by users is automatically included into the distributed list. Ranking of examine results is based on a distributed usage statistics of the web pages visited by FAROO users which leads to a more democratic user centric ranking. FAROO also shares advertising revenues up to fifty percent with its users. The search engine uses privacy-protected behavioral targeting to increase conversion rates.
Interesting concept. P2P in a strict sense. Results are only pages that have been visited by users…I cant’ help but evaluate the SEO crowd is going to like this
is a white-label platform for indexing searching and monetizing video. The technology they are developing lets video producers algorithmically extract metadata from news shows movies and Internet video. This is much more effective than the old method of text-based metadata indexing. Viewdle’s most notable feature is their facial-recognition technology that can act a create a “real-time index of true on-screen appearances”. They intend on building one of the largest databases of people-in-video references. Reuters is currently testing out Viewdle’s technology with their videos news inventory by letting people examine their catalog for specific people.
The facial recognition is always an interesting concept but I’m remind of. More Britney Spears examples although they are pulling data from others in the video as well it looks a go from previous tech particularly furnish it’s video they are scanning not just pics.
Product: Top Chance scans on criteria including go out. Popularity search includes total video time and when. Platform (presuming API) will also be released shortly to plugin widgets etc.
Jason asks Om: which one is the most viable. Om: CastTV. One to last: Cognitive Code. Middle of the road choose: Powerset. Faroo is “interesting,” Viewdle will be “acquired soon”
Jason Calacanis to Marissa Mayer: will people switch away from Google. Reply: most people use more than one examine engine according to stats. Google’s advantage is being a one stop shop. JC: what did you evaluate of CastTV. MM: nice interface clustering for duplicate issues is good tech.
Marc Andreessen: I don’t want to be obsessed with distribution…but I am how do companies deal with itPowerset: we’re very aware of this…uploading to users (???) embeding on external sites (explore custom search call I’d think).
Conclusion: speaking to Nick and we agree that CastTV was the winner in a very competitive group good tech which just works with a practical use. Cognitive label had the coolest product but the show wasn’t great which lost it for them.
Hold it there. Not to be unfair to the other search companies (I’ll definitely check them out) but following the buzz does this convey Powerset ordain be available to the public today? As of alter now the only box in their home page is the one asking for your email and the quote “TC40 attendees ordain be amongst first in private beta” doesn’t sound like it will launch today which I thought it was a requirement to present at TC40.
I’m not sure if I get the Cognitive label “coolest” proposal. AI engine with Rules Creation Studio and Natural Language Processing. I’ve seen quite a few even open source. What I found interesting though is to be able to position in different platforms and LUA integration…Anyone else has any information on how SILVIA differs from all other NLP+Rules(AIML?) applications?
If Powerset’s hype takes too long to channel… Ratings will go up and falls drink rapidly. Users would switch to explore. Powerset could fall the same catalogy as Hakia.
Most of the time you be to communicate with computers using a specific set of words say something desire. “Take me to billing.” Or simply saying “billing”. If you try to say it any other way the computer balks or worse yet spits out gibberish.
Interesting cram. I’ll have to disagree with Prakash - I think examine comfort has a lot of juice in it esp in the way these guys are moving - specialisation.
I’d like to know what people think about a site in private beta I’m part of - LocateTV which hopes to be the explore of film and TV. It basically lets you search for when an actor programme or film is next showing on TV online and DVD - specific to your region and channels.
Obviously there’s a different emphasis to these web-video-specific sites - LocateTV covers all legal professional circumscribe but like CastTV it does not host stuff just find it quickly and accurately and tailored to you.
Anyway. I think people have learned the current search by keyword query method of searching and it ordain be an extra effort trying to forget and re-learn the examine function.
Hey Ask com got this going a long time ago and most of the search engines undergo put smarts to analyse that write of a natural language query anyway. I guess it would be good if it analyzes the pages it is indexing ahead of time and uses that method to change down your “Natural Language Search” lingo.
I am yet to be convinced of the value this product can bring. I may be mistaken. But it will be some measure before actors on TV will say. “I Powerset-ed it” instead of “I Googled it”. This is just my opinion. I welcome yours. Powersetted it !?!#? Just doesn’t sound right.
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