Yandex has released a social-search application for the US



Yandex has released a social search app called Wonder, which combined for the iOS platform's own search algorithms with data from social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Foursquare and also with the voice recognition from Nuance, pichet TechCrunch.

The app is released only for the American market and as a "pure experiment". It is expected that some of the key technology Wonder in the future will also be used in other applications. The app itself is Wonder may appear in other markets, including in Russia — it all depends on its success in the United States.

The application combined data from users of various social networks and using readily available APIs and voice service Nuance it provides guidance about where to go, what to see, what music to buy and so on. It allows users to directly make purchases where possible — for example, in the case of music.

The app was developed by an American team of Yandex. According to TechCrunch, directly behind the project is a team of three from startup The Tweeted Times, which Yandex bought in 2011. According to the same source, the Moscow office did not take the idea seriously until the app was not developed.

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In a blog Yandex notes that currently supports search, Wonder places, music and news and only a few types of questions. However, the scope of application can be expanded based on user feedback.

App release for USA helps Yandex strengthen its presence in the American market, to demonstrate the ability to work with English users and data in English. In addition, it's a way for Yandex to roll out to the market three service, which soon will somehow appear in other applications Yandex.

First, it is the technology that Yandex is called the "system of natural language understanding". This voice recognition service that is based on Nuance technologies and who understands the issues and other types of interaction.

Secondly, it is the algorithm of Yandex, which helps to collect and integrate streams from different social networks to find the most recent and accurate information. "We want to look at social data without duplication and errors," — said in the Yandex.

And thirdly, this is another step to aggregation: "We are experimenting with an interface in which all the information about what the user is looking for, can be placed in one folder".
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru

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