Quite Week

Quite here at NCL this week with the majority of my colleagues having gone to attend the AHM2008 meeting. I was looking at a couple of interesting 'new'-ish search engines that came to my attention namely Cuil and Freebase Parallex

Cuil was developed by fomer Google employees and their claims is that unlike other engines 'probably google' they do not store any private information about the users. They also claim that they have larger index than google. I tried it and i like the way they present information. Chekc it out too.

Freebase is in development but it demonstrates very well the power of 'processable' semantics or metadata associated with web content. I have processable in quotes since it is very difficult define the metadata information to be stored and to develop schemas to hold that information as well as algorithms to process them. Still it is a very interesting idea and it should be cheked out.