Webhamer Weblog: Search & ICT-related blogging

Miiget is a celebrity search engine that allows you to search for famous people and explore their relationships with others. Combines Exalead's core technologies plus advanced image analytics (face detection & similarity) from LTU
Technologies. Technologies deployed include:

* Named Entity Detector
* Relation Context Extraction
* Advanced Picture Analysis (face detection & similarity)

As a demo Miiget is currently limited to a subset of People extracted from the Web (a few hundred thousand people).

“The triumph of the distributed Web.” He said the aggregate power of distributed human activity will trump centralized control. His main point was that Google, and other search engines that analyze the Web and links, are much less useful than a (theoretical) search engine that knows not what people have linked to (as Google does), but rather what pages are open on people’s browsers at the moment that people are searching. “All the problems of search would be solved if search relevance was ranked by what browsers were displaying,” he said.