Those wacky Googlers …

“To try out this demo, please follow these simple steps:
1. Pick up the phone and call the automated voice search system at (650) 318-0165.
2. After the prompt Say your Search Keywords, say your query to the system.
3. Click this link and a new window will open with your voice search results.
4. Say another query, and the new window with the search results will be updated with the new results.

pretty cool, google “… now extracts and indexes the text from many file formats, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PostScript, RTF, Lotus files, WordStar 2000, RFT (and old IBM format), MacWrite, and on and on. The extracted information is also converted in most cases to HTML which you can view by clicking a link next to the result."

And it’s not a Soprano … New Jersey “technology company Hawk Holdings has launched an internet search engine called Teoma which is set to rival favourite Google.”

“Vivisimo’s clustering technology is based on a specially developed algorithm to group or “cluster’’ textual documents … The output is a clear and hierarchical folder structure, allowing users to avoid “link overload’’ and to click only on the specific category of information that they need.”

From: Vivisimo Search Engine Developed at Carnegie Mellon

octopus super search: [weblog]

i’m thinking of experimenting with yourmom.com as a collaborative portal modeled after ODP … just a thought.