To innovate at Helioid we stay on the edge of research and development in search and related technologies. In keeping with this, Helioid co-Founder Peter Lubell-Doughtie will be presenting a poster at the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2012.

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Over the last couple months, we’ve added a few awesome new features to further help searchers get serious about finding what’s interesting to them. You may have noticed that some time back we added the History feature, which lets you take a look at the backlog of changes in results and categories over time for [...]

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Paul Graham of Y Combinator fame recently mused on what he sees as seven “Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas” in areas ripe for revolution. Interestingly, Search tops the list, an area which we feel could actually do with a few revolutions to populate the field with a more competitive landscape of players. And we must say, we can’t disagree with the clear, though daunting, opportunities for shake-ups in the other areas identified by Graham.

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Olhar Digital has a video review of Helioid in Portuguese:

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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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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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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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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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