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A new experimental "similarity search" algorithm. Thoughts?

3 pointsby eserorgalmost 17 years ago

5 comments

eserorgalmost 17 years ago
Currently, we're text-mining the english version of Wikipedia.<p>There's a lot of room for improvement: optimizing for speed and pruning down the results are at the top of our "TODO" list.<p>Also, the UI is simplistic -- that's because we've been spending 99% of our time working on the algorithm in matlab.<p>But, we wanted to get something out -- warts and all -- to get some feedback on the general idea.<p>We'd value any feedback -- positive or negative.
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uuillyalmost 17 years ago
For what it's worth I searched for "google.com" and got "The International Society for Cryptozoology" as a top hit. Not sure how useful it was but I did learn that there was such a thing as Crytozoology and my day instantly got 10% better.<p>I actually use this one all the time: <a href="http://www.similicio.us/" rel="nofollow">http://www.similicio.us/</a><p>I think it uses delicious tags.
andralmost 17 years ago
I tried Bach and it appears that it just returned Wikipedia articles that mentioned Bach. My initial expectations were more along the lines of Google Sets.<p>What are the shapes on the homepage for? It was kind of intriguing that they seemed to do something, but I didn't know what.
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okeumenialmost 17 years ago
Besides the fact that it thinks too long, what is new about it, what are you trying to achieve?<p>I search for "Test" and results were not really relevant.
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vznalmost 17 years ago
It like google with schizophrenia. Pretty impressive. It seems like drugs and alcohol as mind enhancer for creative people (writers, designers, painters) is obsoleted now :-)