Tag Archives: Search Engines

Another attempt at an EU Google-Killer

Posted by coulson on July 20, 2007 None comments

At a time when Google holds 90% of the search market in Germany and Spain, and almost 75% in Britain and it is generally acknowledged that European companies in spend far less on research than those based in other parts …

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Exalead – not throwing in the towel

Posted by coulson on April 12, 2007 None comments

I’d like to share in some of the optimise shown by …?… (alarm:clock euro posts are never signed apparently) on the subject of Exalead the French Search Engine. I would. But I can’t.

Mr Twingly & Oscar Torrents

Posted by coulson on February 24, 2007 None comments

Two Swedes in the Net news. Twingly pulls in blog RSS feeds from all over the world, showing them accumulate in pillars on a rotating 3D globe. Post titles scroll by; click on any title to display the post and …

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The widget wagon rolls on…

Posted by coulson on February 8, 2007 None comments

French start-up Criteo, the distributed recommendation service, is dishing out their ‘collaborative filtering technology’ for use in the blogosphere with the AutoRoll widget. The idea is a dynamic blog roll made up of similar sites that the people who visit …

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Musipedia names that Tune

Posted by coulson on January 10, 2007 None comments

If you can you sing it or whistle it, or piece it together on a virtual piano, or even tap it’s rhythm on your PC keyboard, then there is a chance you might find out where that song comes from …

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PHAROS ‘the other Eurogoogle’ receives EU funding

Posted by coulson on December 31, 2006 None comments

FAST, the Norwegian company leading the search engine project known as Pharos – Platform for Search of Audiovisual Resources Across Online Spaces – has announced an €8 million grant from the European Commission. “This research fund is validation of the …

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Germany pulls the plug on Eurogoogle

Posted by coulson on December 19, 2006 3 comments

To anybody left wondering what ever happened to Quaero – the Franco-German Internet search engine that was scheduled to be officially launched in early 2006 – it appears to have taken yet another two steps backwards into Franco-French. At an …

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