http://startupsquad.com/2006/12/28/boorah-natural-phrased-local-search/ Tech and Money Blog Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:08:38 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://startupsquad.com/2006/12/28/boorah-natural-phrased-local-search/#comment-2752 StartupSquad » Blog Archive » BooRah on SMS via 4INFO Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:57:02 +0000 http://startupsquad.com/2006/12/28/boorah-natural-phrased-local-search/#comment-2752 [...] I have already written couple of times about BooRah that enables local restaurant search via regular keyword search and also via Natural Language based Search(NLS) technique. The NLS part of things is going to come handy in this partnership ’cause users want to type in limited amount of text on the mobile to receive 3-4 highly relevant results. Something that is concise, and is in easy-to-read summary form right on their cell phones. In practice you would text strings  in natural language like ’Date Place Palo Alto, CA’ to 4INFO to get 3-4 listings that have review “buzz” going on out on the Internet. I don’t think you would be one happy person if you have to read through 150 reviews from Yelp on your mobile browser. Instead let BooRah do the word crunching while your drive. [...] [...] I have already written couple of times about BooRah that enables local restaurant search via regular keyword search and also via Natural Language based Search(NLS) technique. The NLS part of things is going to come handy in this partnership ’cause users want to type in limited amount of text on the mobile to receive 3-4 highly relevant results. Something that is concise, and is in easy-to-read summary form right on their cell phones. In practice you would text strings  in natural language like ’Date Place Palo Alto, CA’ to 4INFO to get 3-4 listings that have review “buzz” going on out on the Internet. I don’t think you would be one happy person if you have to read through 150 reviews from Yelp on your mobile browser. Instead let BooRah do the word crunching while your drive. [...]

]]> http://startupsquad.com/2006/12/28/boorah-natural-phrased-local-search/#comment-2751 StartupSquad » Blog Archive » Systemone’s Similarity Engine goes alpha Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:19:10 +0000 http://startupsquad.com/2006/12/28/boorah-natural-phrased-local-search/#comment-2751 [...] Semantic Web is the buzzword these days. TextDigger, Radar Networks, Boorah, PowerSet, Adaptive Blue are just some of the startups working on semantic web variations. Another semantic web contender Systemone today launched their first consumer facing Similarity Engine named Infolust. The initial launch is very basic. Right now all you can do is feed in the URL of a page for which you want more details, and Infolust will quickly analyze to come back with 10 related pages from Wikipedia. As I mentioned before the this is an alpha product so it is not yet ready for prime time. From the few search queries I ran, most of the results were way off track. So lot of work needs to done in that aspect, which even Systemone openly admits. Besides this, Systemone will be adding more content sources beyond the Wikipedia domain. Even if Systemone can get Wikipedia part working right, it will be big improvement over the standard Wikipedia search which is no one’s favorite. [...] [...] Semantic Web is the buzzword these days. TextDigger, Radar Networks, Boorah, PowerSet, Adaptive Blue are just some of the startups working on semantic web variations. Another semantic web contender Systemone today launched their first consumer facing Similarity Engine named Infolust. The initial launch is very basic. Right now all you can do is feed in the URL of a page for which you want more details, and Infolust will quickly analyze to come back with 10 related pages from Wikipedia. As I mentioned before the this is an alpha product so it is not yet ready for prime time. From the few search queries I ran, most of the results were way off track. So lot of work needs to done in that aspect, which even Systemone openly admits. Besides this, Systemone will be adding more content sources beyond the Wikipedia domain. Even if Systemone can get Wikipedia part working right, it will be big improvement over the standard Wikipedia search which is no one’s favorite. [...]

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