Helioid

Helioid Video Review

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:02:33 +0000

Olhar Digital has a video review of Helioid in Portuguese:

Helioid on TechCrunch

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:52:32 +0000

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.

Using Helioid for Science Learning

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:15:48 +0000

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.

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

admin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:46:36 +0000

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 [...]

Search Refinement (and Helioid) is the Top Tech Trend

admin — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:42:51 +0000

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.

Helioid is a KillerStartup

admin — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:38:16 +0000

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.

Helioid reviewed on Wwwhat’s New

admin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:42:37 +0000

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.

New York Times Says it’s Time to Rethink Search

admin — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:48:51 +0000

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."