Thursday, October 9, 2008


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Evri, a Seattle-based semantic-Web task backed by Paul Allen s Vulcan Capital, has thrown open the doors on its beta location and on Evri s Garden, a sandbox for researchers and interested bystanders.

Formerly known as Hypertext Solutions, Evri s first doodad submission in the Plot is a pop-up that examines the lexis it finds significant generally nouns on a side and returns various related articles, images, and video, and rider sufficient associations are available a circle-and spine chart, presentation provisions with which a given declaration has a close connection. An automatically generated map power link, for example, Barack Obama with Joe Biden, or Beverly Hills with Ed McMahon, or Mariners with failure. I may have made that last one up. You can check for yourself on Evri s location or download the doodad for your own uses.

Like Google News, the search progression is entirely algorithm-driven, depiction its associations from a array of highly regarded information services, very nearly in real time. By parsing the semantics of the information it finds, Evri aims to provide better milieu than a search locomotive power -- guiding you to, for instance, articles on Madonna the lead singer rather than Madonna the religious figure. One of individuals Madonnas is, by the way, Evri-linked directly to Tab Clinton. Guess.

An early story of the search doodad originally saying sunshine at last May s All Stuff D conference. During his display there, Head of the company Neil Roseman, formerly VP of expertise at Amazon, described the doodad s MO as search less, understand more.

I query whether Evri entirely understands my most profound search wishes a check for the tube show Pushing Daisies passed reverse on-point images, news, associations and a Wikipedia-based show synopsis, but the photocopy photos of the show-inspired crochet afghan may have been a crumb random. Still, it works, and could add a little semantic sparkle to many a dull Netting page.
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