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Wednesday June 25, 2008

Paul Allen's Evri Launches Semantic Search Service

Semantic search engine Evri aims to give users the power to search less and understand more by creating connections between people, products, concepts, and events to help users discover related information on any search. Evri, which yesterday launched in private beta form, was founded by Neil Roseman, former VP of Technology at Amazon and spun out of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s investment firm Vulcan Capital. Evri completely relies on its algorithms to help users find related information by analyzing text to determine relationships between related terms. Evri is entering in direct competition with a number of other recently introduced semantic search engines, namely Wikipedia driven Powerset and Hakia.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062500018.html
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/141967.asp
http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/24/evri-launches-semantic-site-to-help-blaze-paths-through-the-internet/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/evri_beta_launches_search_less.php

Kosmix Expands Beyond Vertical Search Engine

Vertical search engine Kosmix has expanded its offerings beyond health, automobile and travel information to provide universal search results for all subjects. Kosmix works by delivering search results from a variety of sources across the web such as Flickr, Google, Wikipedia, TheFind, Yahoo Answers, Amazon, Truveo, and YouTube.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/25/kosmix-goes-horizontal/K
http://www.kosmix.com/

Google, Yahoo and Baidu Lead Asia Search: comScore

Web measurement firm comScore released its rankings of the top search properties in the Asia Pacific region based on data from its comScore qSearch 2.0 service. Google leads Asia’s search rankings in April with 39.1 percent of all searches, followed by Yahoo at 24 percent. Baidu ranked third with 16.7 percent, and was the highest-ranking Asia-based search engine, one of five that appeared in comScore's top 10. Among Asians, Korean Internet users were the heaviest searchers for April, with an average of 103.5, followed by users in Japan with 102.6, and Singapore with 100.9. Chinese searchers were the largest as a group, with 82.8 million. Japan came in second, followed by India.

http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2289
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147532/google_yahoo_lead_asia_search.html

[edited by: Vanessa_Zamora at 10:15 pm (utc) on June 25, 2008]