Archive for August, 2011

Helioid reviewed on Wwwhat’s New

Tuesday, 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..”

Gracias por sus comentarios.

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New York Times Says it’s Time to Rethink Search

Friday, 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...

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Helioid Reviewed on TechWeb.com.cn and Winmani

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
On August 4th of last week TechWeb.com.cn released a review of Helioid in Chinese (English translation). Here’s a quote from the translation:
What is unique about it? Compared with conventional search engines, Helioid places search results on the left column with filtering options, users can choose which filter option, or simply show only some of the options. Provides fast and efficient search results. Support for Chinese search.


A day earlier, on August 3rd Winmani also released a review of Helioid in Tamil (English translation). The translation quality is poor, so we’ve chosen what sounds like a complementary koan:
Search results are quickly and wisely.

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