Next frontier: searching images
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- Next frontier: searching images
- Large-scale Community Protein Annotation — WikiProteins
- Malilong: Motorcycle ban
- Hands ff My Kindle
- Sorting Through the Mac S X 10.5.3 Update
Next frontier: searching images
News & bserver – May 28, 2008
Powerset impressesPowerset has rolled out its first engine using these methods. It’s hardly a Google-killer. In fact the current design does nothing more than search Wikipedia and the open database Freebase which on its face seems unimpressive because Wikipedia has a perfectly good search function of its own. But play around with the site a bit and prepare to be impressed. Enter a keyword and you’ll get a results page that includes semantic pointers (Powerset calls them “factz”) about your subject each built on relationships that the engine has discerned about the topic. You can quickly click into specific information no matter which Wikipedia article it appears in a process that saves time over conventional search methods and is more accurate. You also get useful article outlines amid results that can seem eerily targeted because Powerset doesn’t just follow keywords but the concepts behind them… You also get useful article outlines amid results that can seem eerily targeted because Powerset doesn’t just follow keywords but the concepts behind them. Entering a specific search question (”What cities did the Doolittle raiders bomb?”) often produces lightning-fast results. So what is the strategy behind using Wikipedia to promote what could be a Web-wide search engine?Clearly Powerset is making a virtue of necessity the necessity being that its indexing methods are hugely intensive. Remember it’s trying to figure out what pages are about so that it can answer a query even if the page it finds does not contain the specific keywords entered. Showing how the technology works on a limited basis keeps the company relevant to search users as further financing helps it expand. I would imagine Powerset is going to be attractive as an acquisition based on its current work alone. There are rumors about Microsoft’s interest.
Large-scale Community Protein Annotation — WikiProteins
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – May 28, 2008
The WikiProfessional technology underlying the site has been developed based upon the collaborative Wikipedia approach. WikiProteins provides a method for community annotation on a huge scale.
Malilong: Motorcycle ban
sunstar.com.ph – May 28, 2008
Star Pampanga – Malilong: Motorcycle ban. It was not until nine years later however when the first motorcycle went on sale… It was not until nine years later however when the first motorcycle went on sale. Motorcycles have since come in different styles says Wikipedia depending on whether it is “designed for long distance travel navigating congested urban traffic cruising sport racing or off-road conditions. Star blog on President Arroyo Couriers and messengers ride on a motorcycle.
Hands ff My Kindle
Motley Fool – May 28, 2008
It even kept promoting the Kindle when it was out of stock a move that thankfully didn’t cost Amazon’s fiscal performance. Today’s competitors are trickier. The Kindle’s EVD connectivity allows owners to download book purchases or surf Wikipedia without having to be within range of a Wi-Fi hotspot. The same can be said of popular Apple (Nasdaq:.
Sorting Through the Mac S X 10.5.3 Update
PC World – May 28, 2008
iSync added support for some new phones from Samsung. A number of other applications received updates of some kind but the changes were either minor (noted in parentheses below) or I can’t find any detail on what’s changed. Items on this list include DVD Player Dictionary (something to do with Wikipedia support) Exposè Photo Booth Preview (related to PDFs and images) Safari (some language changes on preference panels; help files) Activity Monitor (changes in some phrases) Bluetooth File Exchange ColorSync Utility (changes in filters and profiles) Directory Disk Utility (changes in many plug-ins including those that handle disk first aid info windows partitioning and RAID) Keychain Access Migration Assistant (lots of changes and a new version number 1. 1) RAID Utility (changes in the main window and menu) Remote Install S X and X11. That’s a heck of a lot of stuff to update and it’s nowhere near complete–these are only the things that seemed worthy of highlighting out of more than 35000 changed files in this update.
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