Try http://vivisimo.com/ for their clusty search engine.

On 12/17/06, Marcus G. Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Owen Densmore wrote:

>The next big thing?
>
>
These programs perform statistical characterization of content, with no
logical processing of verbs or nouns nor a model of the author
intentions.  No doubt there are situations where the clustering can be
useful for making search more efficient, but, come on, it's just a
matter of time until Google overshadows such technology.

I find I have more trouble with web searches finding interesting results
at all than wading through some irrelvant or unclustered info.  I'm
happy to filter through a few pages of results if there is a payoff.
The answers to more complex questions often aren't available in literal
form from just a simple vector of words, they require generalization,
extrapolation and careful qualification of *conceptually* related work.

Instead, imagine a computerized reader that can tell a decision maker
"this argument appears to be bogus on available evidence", or a
researcher "this paper demonstrates a novel idea".

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