DISQUS

Curious George · 3 years ago

Ahem, business model? Is there one? What is it? More facts, please. And please don't say Google Ads.

Matt Marshall · 3 years ago

Ahem, yes, very good point. Yes, it is ad-based. I have updated the post. It is indeed Google Ads right now, but they will launch ads more ambitiously at Demo, they say.

yumgo@yumgo.co.uk · 3 years ago

It appears they are try to find better results when looking for niche searches.

A website already does this.

It simply groups the best of breed search engines together.

That website is yumgo www.yumgo.co.uk

Mike · 3 years ago

Try www.clusty.com with the same parameters, ACL Knee. Exact same results & categorization.

BlogContestSite.com · 3 years ago

"..crack the code on a vexing problem in search.."
Way to go guys. Just do it. Competition always brings the best things out for us. :)

regards,
jane

dumbfounder · 3 years ago

Clusty's approach is limited because they only look at the first few hundred results. Try a search for the keyword "acl" and a topic tag of "health" on Dumbfind. I believe the results speak for themselves.

www.dumbfind.com

Peter Murray · 3 years ago

Chris, I just tried out your search engine. It blows away Clusty. How long did it take you to put this thing together? It is awesome. Pete.

Matt, you should take a serious look at Dumbfind. I think they are already doing what these guys are going to try to do!! Pete

Matt Marshall · 3 years ago

Yeah, the Kosmix guys were telling me Clusty is ok, but it still tries to give you one set of search results. So if try looking at the subject categories it gives you for ACL -- it gives you vague things like "control" or "league." I think the Kosmix guys are saying they want to give you flavored searches from the beginning, so you don't run into the one-size-fits-all problem. However, their challenge is to figure out how to give people these different flavors in an easy way. Are they going to use tabs, so that you can pick on "travel," "health" or "real estate" searches? They haven't answered how they plan the user interface going forward. They freely admit, that is their challenge.

peter murray · 3 years ago

Matt, Clusty is one thing, but if you take a close look at dumbfind.com which just launched the other day, I think they are streets ahead of where kosmix hope to be in a few months. You should take a look at. I think dumbfounder and his guys are on to something here. I actually came across it by chance in a blog the other day.

http://digability.blogspot.com/2006/01/dumbfounded-chat-with-chris-seline-ceo.html

Who said that · 3 years ago

Lots of lesser known engines here, all producing very interesting results.

Healthline, mentioned in the article, produces amazing results on a search for ACL.

How so? Well, it knows that ACL is a knee injury, and gives that as a Broaden Search option. And, it knows that it's a disease/condition, so it gives you drill downs for symptoms, treatment, etc. And, it knows it's anatomy, and allows you to see all of the related anatomical objects (that you can also navigate).

But the Healthmap, which provides a detailed visual overview of ACL tear topics, just crushes it.

http://www.healthline.com/search?q1=acl

The good news, regardless of who does what, is that many are offering consumers more than they've had before, and that's a win for all of us.

Matt Marshall · 3 years ago

Nice find on Dumbfind. Just looked at it, and you're right that it has a good tag system. Haven't had a chance to check it out in detail, but yikes, only five employees! I'm, uh, dumbfounded on how this will play out.

John · 3 years ago

I remember Amazon scraped the Junglee’s technology. I have my own doubts, after becoming millionaires and spoiled by the money all these years (about 8 years) they could have still fire and drive in them to come with a revolutionary technology. Especially it is proven that their first product/invention was just an irrational exuberance of dot-com era and found useless by Amazon.

Ed · 3 years ago

Best of luck guys.

jacobino · 3 years ago

makes sense...

Helen Wang · 3 years ago

I agree with Charlene Li that Kosmix is more a topical search engine while Google is general purpose search.

John Doerr said "the next Google is still going to be Google." This certainly raised alert. I would think Google will aquire Kosmix some day.

healthline · 3 years ago

why not Google acquire Healthline or webMD? I can't see too much differenece between Kosmix, HealthLine and WebMd.

Andrien Zanier · 3 years ago

Vivisimo is a much solid company than Dumbfind, Kosmix or whatever's similar. Clusty is still years ahead (literally) of all these newbies, not only it's the pioneer, their mission is to make the web a better place, not a place to only make money.

rachna · 3 years ago

Heard about Kosmix a while ago. But, wasn't clear (till now :))on what you guys are really doing...

Well, Kosmix sure sounds like something to watch out for..

Hey Venky, Anand & team - Best Luck for Demo!!

Ankush · 3 years ago

Interesting, finally search includes intelligence and presentation.

Good Luck!

K.Kasturi · 3 years ago

Hi Venky & Anand,I read about your achievment in our local daily(in Chennai) and successfully found your website.Congrats.I have devised a Romanized script common to all the major Indian languages and have launched the package on the web(Quoted above)I am 81 and had spent more than ten years collecting and correlating information on the phonetic values of the letters of the Indian languages.If you could spare the time could you go through the website? Among other benefits that derive from the package the possibility of a multilingual lexicon is one ., wherein at the click of a mouse the English as well as the other Indian language equivalents of any Indian word can be viewed.This is a huge task which persons like me cannot undertake. I have however given a microscopic specimen of it in my website.Now I offer the concept to you for development. There are millions of Indians both athome as well as abroad who would benefit.Would you care to reply? Thanks. Kasturi

Joby Stephen · 3 years ago

Hello sir, Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan,I read about your achievment in The Indian Express local daily(in kerala) and i am eagerly waiting for the launch of the site.i was searching for sites which could give me better results than google.At last there is some one to beat google.
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Ashish Mohan · 3 years ago

may god help u to grow more faster than google

kundan krishna · 3 years ago

hello sir,thanks for your exciting start in the search engine world.surely this time google is the best search engine but here is the indian competetor that will flow them out.i read in times of india that it will be based on contents not on popularity like google.this would surely make KOSMIX more faster.we are eagerly waiting for launching of KOSMIX. best of luck

Gurudatt Shenoy · 3 years ago

Anything that refines search and provides more accurate results is welcome.

Having said this, I feel research is more personalized and people though use search engines to locate new sites and information, those who are into serious research bookmark them.

That is why I developed LookupThis.com. Being a net researcher myself I found it difficult to keep track of my favorite links, organize them and search it.

So when I want to find something on the web, I need to first check if it is in my bookmarks list and then if not there search the web.

This is what LookupThis.com does and I believe it works well for the 25 users who are presently registered with this FREE service.

A Bonus to using LookupThis.com is that it provides an AD Space Sharing Feature using which users can make money by hosting their affiliate links. The ADs get displayed free of cost on LookupThis Search Result Pages.

Check it out yourself

Bill Hoover · 3 years ago

Hi,

I went through your website and its quite interesting. I feel that this venture has great potential.

I have a small suggesstion for you guys. May be you might wanna work on your Kosmix Logo. Instead of having a "Star" to dot the ' i ' you might wanna replace that with just a dot but in red (color of vermillon). Similar to the color of "bindi", that is worn on the forehead by Indian Women.

Thanks and Regards,

Bill Hoover

itispals · 3 years ago

Hey Anand & Venky,

Even before Hindu featured kosmix, we have been tracking about its development. Since it has been a venture from IIT-M Guys.
We need to prove our mettle in comparison to Google's performance.
All the best for your venture.

Thanks and regards,
with wishes,
pals.

shiva · 3 years ago

It's too good to see such search engine compete with the google in the present technology ranges.
I'm very happy to see that the co-founders are from india. I would like to see many those inventions comes from india.

P.krishna chaitanya · 3 years ago

Hi sir,


I am krishna chaitanya ,doing my MCA SECOND YEAR IN OSMANIA CAMPUS,HYDERABAD.I feel great that the indians are competing with google and give better results than google.Ofcourse what u said regarding google is exatly correct and i wish our new search engine 'KOSMIX' will retain it.Wishing u all the best.

shamanthareddy · 3 years ago

i am from india iam very proud you are working on kosomix i wish you both succes i want to invest in kosomix before it comes into public as an ipo please advise thanking both shamanthareddy

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