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echo: barktopus
to: tim hawkins
from: John Beamish
date: 2004-01-06 09:18:08
subject: Re: New search engine

From: "John Beamish" 

Yeah, my subject line was poorly phrased.  I did point out in the message
text that it wasn't a search ... well, you can see the full text below.

"tim hawkins"  wrote in
message news:3ffa8e69$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Its not actualy a new engine, its a clustering system running on top of
> google etc,  You are going to see a lot
> of systems like this appearing very soon, from a lot of players.
>
> Tim Hawkins.
> Head of Search Engineering
> Yahoo Europe
>
>
>
>
> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:3ff9e151$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > http://vivisimo.com/
> >
> > Saw the reference to it on Slashdot.  It's point of differentiation is
> that
> > instead of simply providing a list of sites, it
"categorizes" them on
the
> > fly so you can see a "clustering" (their term).  It's
not a search
engine,
> > as such, but uses existing search engines to get results and it then
> > categorizes/clusters them.
> >
> > Try searching on Barkto to get a feel for it.
> >
> > BTW ... since it was mentioned on Slashdot, their servers seem to be
> > responding slowly.
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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