hakia Joins Yahoo!’s Search BOSS
We are pleased to announce our participation in Yahoo!’s Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) today. As part of this initiative, we have access to one of the largest Web directories on the Internet, which accelerates hakia’s QDEXing process and semantic analysis of the Web’s content. QDEXing is a critical element that replaces traditional index to allow scalable semantic search. Without this kind of infrastructure, application of semantic technology is destined to be limited, such as covering Wikipedia only.
The search landscape is currently in a dynamic stage of reinvention. Yahoo! is inviting more innovation to enter the market, while Microsoft validates the importance of semantic search technology with its recent acquisition of Powerset. For the latter, we congratulate both parties, yet are disappointed by the fact that we’ve lost our favorite competitor. From now on, we will look for traces of the Powerset-effect in LiveSearch.
For hakia’s part, we will continue the momentum as we keep up our progress towards coming out of BETA later this year. As we always say, the every day application of semantic technology is an irreversible, long-overdue process. It is coming…
July 11th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Glad to hear the good news. Looking forward to seeing the results. All of us in SF will miss Powerset too….
July 11th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I enjoyed your writing style and I’ve added you to my Reader. Keep these posts coming. Karen.
July 12th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Having access to Yahoo Search is indeed a giant technological step that many users will be pleased to use for free.