People Search, first comer

So here the first comer came for people search. I was waiting for a search engine which will find the person you are looking for.
ZabaSearch is a “people search engine” (US only).

www 2005 Conference

The WWW 2005 Conference took place last week in Japan and many of the papers presented at the conference are now available via the online proceedings.
The main blog is here

content blocker from Google (funny)

I got a link to contant blocker , it's nice criticism on google. I like it very much. Read specially the privacy policy.

search the open source world

A nice initiative from the koders , is trying to index all the open source projects into search engine.
But when I searched for libsvm I got some sample programs which were using libsvm not the original libsvm :(

search engine relevancy test

Now a efort to compare the 4 competiteres.

Barry and the folks at Rusty Brick have built a search engine relevancy test - essentially its a "blind" engine which gives you results randomly from either Yahoo, Google, Ask, or MSN, then asks you to rate the results (more on the details here). They call it "RustySearch" and Barry just pinged me asking me to get the word out - he needs a larger sampling of searches before he can draw any further conclusions. (His initial results are here.)

The initial results are saying that Yahoo! and Google are having same relevance. Lets see...

Omnipelagos: connecting words...

Omnipelagos finds the shortest paths between any two things.
I checked for relation between Bose and Tipu Sultan:
Bose
- also known as Netaji, a leader of the Indian independence movement and founder of the Indian National Army
Indian independence movement
[The beginnings of the British empire] Main articles: European colonies in India, British East India Company
British East India Company
[History / The road to a complete monopoly] Clive thus became the first British Governor of Bengal. Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan, the legendary rulers of Mysore (in Carnatic)
Tipu Sultan

It's nice and intresting, isn't it?

lets do KDD...

Hay the call for KDD cup is up at official site.
I have registered for that, but until I finishes my project, I can't think about that. I have friends with me in our team. This time very interesting task is up. Classify the search queries. You have been given a long(800000 queries) list of search queries, now classify them into one of the 74 predefined queries. Now you a query of around 2-3 words, ya, nothing else, tell me which category it belongs to?