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Powerset: Natural Language Search

Spinfield — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:43:43 EDT

Earlier this week Powerset launched the beta version of its new natural language search. With Powerset, you can perform a search using keyterms, or you can type in a simple sentence as your query. The goal is to improve the way people interact with technology. Currently it provides search capabilities for Wikipedia and Freebase content only.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Powerset Freebase Wikipedia search engines search engine news

Google Maps Adds Wikipedia Entries, Geo-Tagged Photos

TechnologyExpert — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:31:39 EDT

What won't Google do with their maps? Tuesday, if you went to Google Maps, you would have found a "More" button between the "Map" and "Traffic" buttons. Click on it, and you can, as you see to the left, tick checkboxes labeled "Photos" or "Wikipedia."

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Wikipedia Google Maps Photos

Wikipedia in your pocket from Instructables

Wil — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:59:24 EDT

This Instructable will set out how to construct what I believe to be a unique implementation of Wikipedia in an offline, portable device. It involves installing a stripped-down distribution of Linux on a Psion 5mx handheld, and installing a static HTML version of Wikipedia for use with one of two browsers. [via io9]

Channel: Do-It-Yourself Tags: Gadgets Wikipedia HOWTO Linux Open Source Geeks

Getting your Business Listed on Wikipedia

qj67 — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:19:03 EDT

Getting your business listed on Wikipedia... need I say more?

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: wikipedia listed business ecommerce tools SEO

Powerset Debuts New Search Engine Technology

enbite — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:54:13 EDT

Powerset, the startup founded in 2005 with the objective of challenging Google with the development of an improved search engine, made its official launch to the public today.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Powerset powerlabs search engine google wikipedia internet

Search Engine better than Google

abhishekkumar — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:56:24 EDT

PowerSet is a San Francisco based search engine company who is developing a natural language search engine which will compete with Google, Live, AltaVista and Yahoo. That search engine will answer the query of user's questions. At present all the search engines are based on keywords.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: google powerset wikipedia search engine

Powerset Launches Wikipedia Articles Search Engine

richardpalace — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:58:28 EDT

Powerset Launches Wikipedia Articles Search Engine What is Powerset? Powerset is a company based in San Francisco, California that is developing a natural language search engine for the Internet. The company's desire is to build a search engine to compete with Google and Yahoo which would act on a user's questions, as opposed to keywords.

Channel: News Tags: powerset wikipedia search engine articles

Homeopathy | alternative medicine

doctorannie — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:25:57 EDT

Homeopathic practitioners contend that an ill person can be treated using a substance that can produce, in a healthy person, symptoms similar to those of the illness. According to homeopaths, serial dilution, with shaking between each dilution, removes the toxic effects of the remedy while the qualities of the substance are retained by the diluent

Channel: Health & Fitness Tags: Homeopathy wikipedia

Web start-up unveils semantic Wikipedia search tool

Ousama — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:14:24 EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Powerset on Sunday unveiled tools for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords, marking the first step of its challenge to established Web search services such as Google.Powerset's technology breaks down the meaning of words and sentences into related concepts,freeing users from always needing

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Web start up Wikipedia search tool

Naturopathy

doctorannie — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:54:57 EDT

Naturopathic medicine (also known as naturopathy) is a complementary and alternative medicine which emphasizes the ability of the body to heal and maintain itself, which practitioners believe is innate.

Channel: Health & Fitness Tags: naturopathy wikipedia

Powerset brings the Semantic Web to Wikipedia

DiffeeOnline — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:03:42 EDT

Amid speculation that Microsoft is looking to make an acquisition, Powerset launched a public beta of its Wikipedia search engine. It brings a new, rich semantic dimension via natural language query processing to Wikipedia that greatly improves the search and reading experience.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: powerset wikipedia semantic web google microsoft

Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool

DiffeeOnline — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:48:11 EDT

Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: wikipedia college education teaching professors

What do you think Wikipedia Should Do About Porn Content

digitalfever — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:07:24 EDT

In an article at World Net Daily posted only two days ago you can read some shocking news: FBI investigates the Wikimedia foundation as a result of reports about the presence of questionable material (with serious, explicit sexual content) present on Wikipedia.

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: pornography wikimedia wikipedia featured

Erik Moeller and Defenses of Pedophilia

Fedquip — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:54:35 EDT

The story in question is Wikimedia Deputy Director Erik Moeller, his recent hiring at Wikimedia, and his continued self-defense of statements generally indicating that pedophelia is something that's less than evil.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Wikipedia Wikimedia Erik Moeller Pedophelia

Wikipedia Gets Published - Should Writers Get Paid? - ReadWriteWeb

Fedquip — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:26:30 EDT

It seems a debate is brewing in the "Wikipedia-sphere" surrounding the commercialization and the soon-to-be-made profit from the voluntarily written and edited online encyclopedia web site.

Channel: Books Tags: Wikipedia Profil Money

The German Wikipedia: Rip-Off Incorporated

nowsourcing — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:19:50 EDT

It seems that plans are in the works for a slimmed down, condensed version of the German Wikipedia to be made into a printed encyclopedia book and it will be sold in bookstores for 20 Euros ($32). As many people have said, it's "reverse publishing". I say it's a bit of a scam on the part of the German publisher Bertelsmann.

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: wikipedia germany writers encyclopedia bertelsmann

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles

bonnieweelass — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:40:51 EDT

It is quite apparent that Wikiepdia is the destination of choice for people looking for more information about people in the news as Eliot Spitzer demonstrates. Spitzer's Wikiepedia page saw a 5316% increase in views after news of his scandal broke.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: wikipedia internet

Toyota 4Runner Wiki

dlegal — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:49:45 EDT

toyota 4runner information mashup wikipeida/other sources.

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Quassia New Era in Internet Marketing?

miroxy — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:55:08 EDT

At Qassia, you can add your websites for free, and without having to add reciprocal backlinks. You'll get unlimited quality backlinks (as opposed to useless "no-follow" backlinks). You can also add intel. Short for "intelligence", intel is a tidbit of information.

Channel: News Tags: internet marketing qassia digg wikipedia

Apple CEO's stage notes appear on Wikipedia

hotdrhot — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:34:41 EDT

We're used to seeing the online tech world go crazy with rumours and speculation in the days before Macworld, but this year a new element has been introduced to the mix.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: apple ceo steve jobs wikipedia macworld

When Web 2.0 goes offline: print version of Wikipedia

gardos_attila — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:24:09 EDT

Bertelsmann AG, one of world's biggest publishing house will publish what could be the first in a series of annual yearbooks whose content is derived from the many hundreds of thousands of user-created entries on Wikipedia.

Channel: Books Tags: Wikipedia book Bertelsmann internet web2.0

Publisher plans printed version of Wikipedia

jeremytoday — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:44:14 EDT

In a move combining user-created online encyclopedias with the printed page, Germany's Bertelsmann AG will publish what could be the first in a series of annual yearbooks whose content is derived from the many hundreds of thousands of user-created entries on Wikipedia.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Wikipedia encyclopedia print

Wikipedia Under Attack by Pro-Israel Groups Distorting Palestinian History

gauharjk — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:09:08 EDT

What is the first place you turn to for finding information on the Internet? Encarta? Britannica? No! its Wikipedia!!! And now, Wikipedia is under threat by CAMERA, the pro-israel organization, who wants to destroy any credibility Wikipedia has by distorting history on Palestine. They have a very detailed plan, which has been exposed, thanks to Th

Channel: Politics Tags: lies manipulate public opinion wikipedia rewrite history

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Now Free - to Web Publishers

TechnologyExpert — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:57:42 EDT

When I was a kid, my parents bought me the full set of Encyclopedia Britannica for me to use in school projects, etc. Nowadays, if you need something like that, you probably wouldn't even consider something hard copy - and thus not as current as you might want. You might use Microsoft's Encarta software or even Wikipedia. Some of you might wonder i

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Wikipedia Encyclopaedia Britannica Bloggers

Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Bloggers

MyWayOnNow — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:42:54 EDT

You can get access to the online version for free through a new program called Britannica Webshare - provided that you are a "web publisher." The definition of a web publisher is rather squishy: "This program is intended for people who publish with some regularity on the Internet ...

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: britannica encyclopedia wikipedia internet technology

Economical with the truthiness

_kam0_ — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:24:46 EDT

In our Wiki-world, first-hand knowledge seems unnecessary and the story more important.

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: Colbert truth truthiness Wikipedia books

Wikipedia Article creates Circular references

lantrix — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:24:42 EDT

An anonymous user added information about Ali G. in his Wikipedia article 3 days before the now referenced external article was written. The independent wrote the referenced article apparently using Wikipedia as the source of this "Goldman Sachs" career. Now Wikipedia uses as its references the articles that came after the initial modific

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Jimbo Wales dumps lover on Wikipedia

Lifeoflava — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:56:05 EDT

Break-up-by-Wikipedia was the weirdest thing until Divorce-by-Youtube.

Channel: Love & Personals Tags: Wikipedia break up jinbo wales rachel marsden