[Sigia-l] FW: Kozaru: new search engine

[Boniface Lau]

> From: Listera
> 
> I'm not unfamiliar with the notion of "intent", but I haven't been
> able to read anything rigorous. Has anyone?

According to:

    http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=766

Kozoru is a natural language search engine. I wouldn't be surprised if
its technology platform was similar to that of Blinkx which is based
on Autonomy:

    http://www.autonomy.com/c/content/Technology

Based on what is displayed in a window, Blinkx suggests a list of
articles. After the window scrolled to another screen, Blinkx revises
its suggestion. That is a pretty good way of gauging user intent.

My experience with Blinkx has been very good. To explore further on
what I was reading, I simply moved the cursor to the Blinkx bar to get
suggestions. I often got what I wanted. Thus, I did not have to come
up with a set of keywords to characterize what I was looking for. In
fact, I got the above Search Engine Journal link from Blinkx. However,
Blinkx is available only for Windows:

    http://www.blinkx.com/content/download.php


Boniface