{"id":223,"date":"2005-06-13T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T18:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2005-06-13T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T18:40:28","slug":"search-engines-in-the-news-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/13\/search-engines-in-the-news-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Engines In The News: Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a year ago, I posted about a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevensquared.com\/blog\/archives\/000053.html\">interesting search engines<\/a> that haven&#8217;t gotten combined the amount of press that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Google<\/a> alone has garnered.  Today, the NY Times had an article about search engines which provided two more interesting engines that I felt compelled to list.  Here they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrsapo.com\">MrSapo<\/a>, a bizarrely named but extremely useful engine because it allows quick, easy comparisons of the results of the same search on 45 different search engines.  Using a DHTML interface, you toggle between the various engines.  Using MrSapo, I found a picture  <a href=\"http:\/\/stephanieklein.blogs.com\/\">Stephanie<\/a> took of what she thinks an <a href=\"http:\/\/stephanieklein.blogs.com\/photos\/hermes\/jeff_lipson_older.html\">older me<\/a> will look like.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ic-arda.org\/InfoExploit\/aquaint\/\">Aquaint<\/a> project, whose work is unclassified but has gone virtually unnoticed in the news media. The name stands for <strong>&#8220;advanced question answering for intelligence,&#8221;<\/strong> and it refers to a joint effort by the National Security Agency, the C.I.A. and other federal intelligence organizations. To computer scientists, &#8220;question answering,&#8221; or Q.A., means a form of search that does not just match keywords but also scans, parses and &#8220;understands&#8221; vast quantities of information to respond to queries.  In the real Aquaint program, the questions are more likely to be, &#8220;Did any potential terrorist just buy an airplane ticket?&#8221; or &#8220;How strong is the new evidence of nuclear programs in Country X?&#8221; Apart from whatever the project does for national security, its innovations could eventually improve civilian search systems, much as the Pentagon&#8217;s Arpanet eventually became the civilian Internet. Of course, the dark potential in ever more effective search-and-surveillance systems is also obvious.  I&#8217;ll be keeping my eye out for more news on this project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a year ago, I posted about a number of interesting search engines that haven&#8217;t gotten combined the amount of press that Google alone has garnered. Today, the NY Times had an article about search engines which provided two more interesting engines that I felt compelled to list. Here they are: MrSapo, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[565,630,692],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-searchengines","tag-tech","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}