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chenli

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About chenli

Founder of Bimaple Technology Inc. Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Irvine

Recent public activity

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    Building a hosted search service

    We are building a hosted search service at Bimaple (http://service.bimaple.com). The effort has multiple years of rooting in academic research, but is turning into a commercial eff…

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    Comment #3754768

    Hi nkurz, Thanks for voting my comment up. Based on your request, I provide the following information. Let me know if you want to move this discussion to a private email discussion…

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    Comment #3748465

    This is the founder of Bimaple. We provide hosted search and license our engine software with significantly better performance and capabilities than Lucene: (1) Supporting "Google-…

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    Comment #3190641

    Disclaimer: I am the founder of Bimaple.com. Bimaple provides powerful location-based search services. Check omniplaces.com for a demonstration site that supports instant, error-to…

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    Comment #2990351

    So far the backend is using more than 17 million business listings in the US, licensed from Factual.com. Chen Li

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    Comment #2990347

    Agreed completely. I am glad you noticed the value of our backend technologies.

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    Comment #2990344

    Please check my reply to Durga's message. We use OmniPlaces.com to demonstrate our backend technologies, which are our main focus currently.

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    Comment #2990338

    Durga, Thanks a lot for your suggestions. They are all very valid. (1) I should admit we didn't do any preparation before the interview since we didn't think we could get selected.…

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    Comment #2989162

    I am the person talking about OmniPlaces.com. It's an amazing experience and Paul was right-on with his questions. Given the time limit, I was not able to answer all the questions.…