SearchEngineUpdate with Vanessa Zamora - 06-20-2008 Part II
Abstract: 1. Hakia Serves Semantic Search to Businesses, 2. Facebook Targets China With Local Language Version
Vanessa Zamora
Video Content Producer, SearchEngineWorld
9:49 pm on June 20, 2008 (utc 0)
Transcript
Friday June 20, 2008
Hakia Serves Semantic Search to Businesses
Semantic search engine Hakia aims to provide businesses with the tools to help visitors to their web site find the right information. In order to accomplish this goal and to better compete against other semantic search engines, like Powerset and Textwise, Hakia is opening up API’s to let developers build their own semantic search applications. Hakia’s Syndication Web Services are twofold, enabling search queries, which allow developers to add web search functionality leveraging Hakia's five billion page index, and XML feed calls, which give developers access to Hakia's underlying natural language processing technology. Under the terms of the API, developers and startups will get 30,000 searches per day for free, with licensing required for anything more. Hakia’s first partner is mobile video firm Berggi, which created a semantic mobile search app for AT&T and Sprint phones, to let users search Hakia’s index via the API from mobile phones.
Facebook Targets China With Local Language Version
Online social networking site Facebook has its eye on China, and for good reason. China by some standards is now the world’s largest Internet market and in attempt to compete with local and overseas rivals, such as News Corporations MySpace which established a Chinese-language Web site in April 2007, Facebook has launched a localized version targeting mainland Chinese Web surfers. Along with the simplified version of Chinese used on the mainland, Facebook China is also offering a version in traditional Chinese.
