[ILUG] Are IBM preparing a search engine?

Michael Armbrecht marmbrecht at eircom.net
Sat Oct 16 17:16:26 IST 2004


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Am Samstag, 16. Oktober 2004 15:25 schrieb Aidan Delaney:
> Hey all,
> 	Can people check their apache logs for searches from
> http://www.almaden.ibm.com/
> IBM seem to have a new web crawler indexing some of my sites regularly.

See:
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/webfountain/ 

> Are they about to take on Google?

AFAIK all big companies are somehow interested in "Semantic Web" stuff, 
especially indexing, creating metadata, classifying information etc, not only 
Google.

Mick

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