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Confirmed: Wikia Search launched Monday

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The project Wikia Search , was referred to as "the murderer of Google", will soon be available in alpha mode. This was written by Jimmy Wales Wikia Search mailing list. In its letter dated December 24, stated that on Monday( From the author. Not quite clear what, but apparently the 7th of January. ) will be available the first public preview version of a new search engine. Wikia Search relies on the ability of users to determine the level of importance of web pages; the system also will allow users to edit the search results like Mahalo . / > It is obvious that the Wikia search was combined with another search project Grub, acquired by Wikia Search in July 2006. Grub uses distributed computing power of users-volunteers for indexing web pages. Jimmy Wales, well known as one of the founders of Wikipedia, has high hopes that the project Wikia Search will press the other search engines. But he is careful not to call out loud the name of Google. Still,

Restlook so small and such a virtual Moscow

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Hello, community! All about know what are the city portals . Yes, these are mutants where the horoscope for each day glued to the news about the landscaping of the streets, in the top corner fearfully trembles weather and resource center — a mishmash of new movies, political events and announcements “sell tomato seeds cheap.” Moreover to the monster lived on, on the same resources just plenty of cheap banner advertising. In General, it really is not for the faint of heart. Who all uses it is still a big mystery. But the need for a quality guide to the cultural (and not so) places, have people in almost every major city. And Nerezinovoy, among other services to the country, is known for the unreal amount fleshpots of different properties. In which Muscovites do not always focus. For them we built Restlook — 3D-guide to establishments in the capital. As they say, the bottom line is this... Panoramic photos and 3D tours — a well-known technique. Some restaurant

A wearable computer AR-Go — the top ten finalists Lenovo

System that I'm working more than one year, and about the history which I recently told habré, reached the final of the competition Lenovo. Competition with Lenovo (and at the same time Google announced its Google Goggles , very similar to AR-Go — up to form factor points) gave us a good momentum, forcing him to sharply intensify the work on the project. The development team has increased from two to six people (not counting dozens of people, ready for them to participate in the project — but still does not show activity). Is written a new version of the kernel. Went to work on the applications with augmented reality. But yesterday... well, the feeling is, what happens when full-run crash into a brick wall. A couple of weeks ago the representatives of Lenovo in the correspondence said that in the second round the winner will be determined not by votes, but by set of parameters, one of which is to promote the work on the project. Inspired, we started work on the killer-ap

Scientific search engine Wolfram — starting tonight!

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Today at 19: 00 CST (4:00 GMT) will be launching a search engine WolframAlpha called one of the most anticipated web products this year . Around this mysterious new items there are a lot of conversations, and those who have tried the system in action is in awe of the work done by the genius himself, Mr. Wolfram (Creator of Mathematica, and before that at age 15 he wrote his first scientific work in particle physics) and 100 researchers, for several years were selected as a basis for a mathematical operation of the engine system WolframAlpha. The new search engine will be the world's first universal search of scientific knowledge. There scored absolutely all scientific books, encyclopedias in all fields of knowledge. He even isn't going to compete with Google, but it will be much more useful Wikipedia for the search and processing of scientific information. Published under jabracada a dozen of screenshots taken during the preview alpha version of the system, hel

Nigma index new

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Nigma again, lit — has launched a new algorithm for indexing websites. It is similar to the fact that Nigma was launched last week, but now the information is extracted from a larger number of sites and mixed directly in the results. / > The result Nigma has increased the number of questions she answers and the snippets are more informative — say, about Anna Semenovich Nigma now known not only bust: In Nigma argue that using such technology results is more relevant, because clicks on these snippets – twice. Well, really, how can you not click? I've spoken about this with Nigma — I was told that the CTR of the second links is obtained is the same as the first, and CTR-thirds of the references do almost three times higher than normal. I.e. once the user actively click on such snippets, and do not think it is, then this feature is really useful. The engine is launched with a small pilot index, so such snippets are displayed only 1% of user queries. But Nig

The first CloudCamp in Belarus (scientific program of the event)

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April 7 will be held in Minsk Belarus ' first CloudCamp. The host of the event – Dave Nielsen (USA), founder of the Silicon Valley CloudCenter and organizer of CloudCamps around the world. the purpose of the event The popularization of Cloud Computing in Belarus. Who will be interested At CloudCamp traditionally gather developers, system engineers, managers, R&D specialists, technical experts and all those interested in the subject of cloud computing. when and Where 7 APR 2012 in the Club "Center", Minsk, October square, 1 (the Republic Palace). the Program 12:00 — Welcome & Introductions (welcome and introduction) 12:20 — Lightning Talks (mini presentations to 10 minutes) Section 1 the Dave Nielsen , Cloud Computing Evangelist, Founder CloudCamp – The economically unstoppable cloud. the Alena Matokhina , Cloud Computing Solution Architect EPAM Systems – Main issues during migration to cloud and process unification.

Nigma Organics 2.0

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/ > The team Nigma.ru launched a new version of the search for organic reactions, whose first version was presented in December of last year (earlier it was possible to search only for inorganic reactions and combinations of chemical compounds). This time the system was introduced a few important changes and improvements. Now users Nigma.ru will be able to: the the to Search for organic reaction is not only original, but also according to the final substances. for Example, = C2H5OH the to Learn how one organic substance to another. for Example, C2H5OH = CH3COOC2H5 the to Search for reactions in which react with several organic substances. for Example, CH3OH + acetic acid Also, the developers have made the update generation system of symbols that allow the system to work with more complex, including cyclic compounds. In the near future, the main direction of the work of the creators will be filling base chemical reactions.