Geekovation

Sphinx search (www.sphinxsearch.com) is one of the fastest developing search engine. Sphinx is used by Craigslist amongst several popular sites. If you have not already tried Sphinx and you are interested in a building your own search engine, give it a shot. Some of the salient features of sphinx is around easier integration with [...]

The swine flu epidemic (leading to a pandemic) has terrified the world. It’s impact can be felt across industries - with travel and hospitality being the worst hit. I tried to see which companies report a hit in performance because of swine flu. Using Gridstone’s Search Engine, I searched for swine flu. Here is a [...]

Gridstone Search (http://search.gridstoneresearch.com) is avilable as beta for all the information seekers who have to sieve through SEC documents and company transcripts. Gridstone Search is now loaded with EDGAR filed documents (includes the five most important filing types - 10K, 6K, 10Q, 8K and 14A) starting 2007 and Transcripts provided by Seeking Alpha (through a [...]

Yahoo! Inc recently announced the release of BOSS - its open search (web-service based) platform. BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) exposes Yahoo Search through an App ID and a web-service. It will be interesting to see how BOSS matures around two main search engine buzz-words: vertical search and semantic search capabilities. I spent some [...]