Dr. Riza C. Berkan, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Hakia
Dr. Berkan is a nuclear scientist by training with a specialization in artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic. He is the author of several articles, including the book Fuzzy Systems Design Principles published by IEEE in 1997. After a decade long career in the nuclear field [...]

Netvue allows users to search the internet for graphics, clipart, and photos. Netvue’s slide show presentation of results allows users to see the images in full size.
While other image search sites restrict you to looking at a page of tiny thumbnails, Netvue simply retrieves the originating image itself. Other image search engines are fallible because [...]

The Star challenge is a race to build the next-generation of multi-media search engines. A US$100,000 cash prize awaits the winners of this world-class competition. The objective of the search challenge is to encourage participation from international teams to develop new, interesting and practical search techniques.
The voice search challenge consists of three subtasks, as [...]

This year at SES New York City there will be a very special panel entitled, “My search is better than your search.” Details here:

The conference runs from March 17-20, and this panel will take place 12:45-1:45 Thursday March 20
Session Description
The entrepreneurs and those who dare to do things differently have shaped the web [...]

Guest Author Phil Bradley

Have you ever heard of Black Stump? How about TicoFun, Leit, Tanikalang Ginto or Kanoksearch? Don’t worry if you haven’t, but on the off chance that you have, I’d take a guess that you’re interested in Australia, Costa Rica, Iceland, the Philippines or Thailand respectively. They’re all search engines – the [...]