IIT Bombay working on a new search engine to provide relevant answers to queries
28 August, 2009
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay is working on a new search engine that would trawl the web and provide relevant answers to queries like ‘how old is Feng Shui’, ‘how many people are infected with AIDS worldwide’, ‘length of the Nile River’, ‘maximum speed of a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren’, or ‘driving time between Delhi and Jaipur’.
The idea is that unlike the existing search engines that expect 2-3 word queries and return URLs to browse, the new engine should be able to understand structures in the query and respond with information nuggets and tables, and not just the links of the pages from which this knowledge is distilled. The IIT-B team has already created billions of annotation links between a 500-million web page corpus and millions of entities known to Wikipedia.
The project is being headed by Professor Soumen Chakrabarti of IIT-B’s Computer Science Department, which has received a research grant from Hewlett-Packard (HP) Labs. Microsoft Research has provided additional research funding, while Yahoo has donated a number of high-end servers. Chakrabarti and his team plan to release their new search API to key research partners, including several universities, by the end of this year. [Source: Business Standard]
Kudos Guys!!!. IIT rocks. Keep up the Good work guys. I wont surprise me that someday a few IITians will actually come up with a search engine that will give Google a run for its money.
Cheers Mate. You guys make us all Indian proud.
If we can have the answer we seek at the press of a button, nay, mouse that would be like Aladdin and his genie.
Looks like BS motoring guys are spamming alootechie with link on Car Reviews as their comment name linking to bs motoring site hehe
sorry bs guys, such seo tricks dont work anymore
I think on an average, a net-user browses through 4 pages/sites before he reaches the information he really started out to get. If we develop this, it would be remarkable in saving time and energy
This should prove useful. At present, one has to browse through various websites before one reaches the one which could give a straight reply to a straight query.
This search engine algorithm seems interesting as Google gets results based on the keywords not the queries mentioned above. Looking forward to use it.
Way to go guys!!!!
All the best. Good to see some effort being put on this from India :)
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