Helioid Video Review

December 15th, 2011

Olhar Digital has a video review of Helioid in Portuguese:

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Helioid on TechCrunch

December 6th, 2011
Helioid was recently featured in a TechCrunch article by Eric Eldon. Here’s an excerpt:
Helioid is a small startup out of New York that’s trying to change that, by delivering results tied to categories of information. It’s aiming at students, professionals and others who are trying to do exploratory research across a topic, and aren’t just looking for a specific answer to a question.

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Using Helioid for Science Learning

October 11th, 2011

Consider a high school physics student researching neutrinos, the graphic below depicts how she can use Helioid to explore and refine her search, gathering knowledge as she goes.

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Helioid’s Got a Brand New Bag (of Features)

September 29th, 2011

We’ve rolled out a new set of search refinement features on Helioid. Now if you click on the colored circle next to a category name, your original query is amended with the name of the category, producing a new search drilling further down into the set of results. Also, a “View By Site” button has [...]

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Search Refinement (and Helioid) is the Top Tech Trend

September 25th, 2011
The top tech trend presented by Amy Webb at ONA11 was “search refinement” and Helioid is the first start-up mentioned! Fast-forward to minute 9 for comments on Helioid.



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Helioid is a KillerStartup

September 4th, 2011
This is according to KillerStartups:
While nobody in his right mind would think this new search engine would pose a threat to giants such as Google or Bing, there’s no denying it has come into the fold with some new ideas. And that’s always something worthy of a round of applause, and more than its fair share of respect.

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Helioid reviewed on Wwwhat’s New

August 30th, 2011

Yesterday, on August 29th, Helioid was reviewed by Juan Diego Polo on Wwwhat’s New. Juan gives an example of Helioid’s usefulness when searching for cities:

“When searching for cities, for example, we see categories for hotels, guides, events, trips..”

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New York Times Says it’s Time to Rethink Search

August 19th, 2011
In a recent article entitled, “A Call to Rethink Internet Search,” New York Times technology reporter, Steve Lohr, discusses the rising call for greater innovation and experimentation in web search. Lohr focuses on the criticisms voiced by University of Washington computer scientist, Oren Etzioni, in a recent essay published in Nature, concerning the need to move beyond keyword search to natural language search and question answering. Here’s an exciting prediction from the original Nature article:
“We could soon view today’s keyword searching with the same nostalgia and amusement reserved for bygone technologies such as electric typewriters and vinyl records.”Continue Reading...