The Future of Search Has Arrived… And Its Name is Swingly

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Post by polomasta » Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 5:28 AM UTC

The Future of Search Has Arrived… And Its Name is Swingly
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Re: The Future of Search Has Arrived… And Its Name is Swingly

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Post by bradleyjoyce » Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 5:48 AM UTC

hi - we just moved the site to a new server today and the DNS is still propagating in some regions, so if you get a 404 that is why!

Re: The Future of Search Has Arrived… And Its Name is Swingly

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Post by yr » Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 5:52 AM UTC

Answering # of your questions, Are you sure the number is correct ? It's kind of unbelievable for a startup in beta.

Re: The Future of Search Has Arrived… And Its Name is Swingly

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Post by martey » Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 6:07 AM UTC

From the article: In Swingly…. I just ask it the question. ”Who was the first manager of the Texas Rangers?” And then I’m given an answer (Mickey Vernon).

When I google "Who was the first manager of the Texas Rangers?", the first result is the Wikipedia article "List of Texas Rangers managers" which has the answer in its description. The same thing happens when I use Bing, DuckDuckGo, and even AltaVista.

Re: The Future of Search Has Arrived… And Its Name is Swingly

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Post by bradleyjoyce » Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 7:26 AM UTC

yr wrote: post #3

Answering # of your questions, Are you sure the number is correct ? It's kind of unbelievable for a startup in beta.

it's sort of hard to classify swingly as a typical startup... it's more like a company incubated within a larger corporation.. they are licensing TONS of data from their parent company, which has been collecting this type of data for 10+ years or something like that

Re: The Future of Search Has Arrived… And Its Name is Swingly

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Post by shangomoons » Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 5:19 PM UTC

martey wrote: post #4

From the article: In Swingly…. I just ask it the question. ”Who was the first manager of the Texas Rangers?” And then I’m given an answer (Mickey Vernon). When I google "Who was the first manager of the Texas Rangers?", the first result is the Wikipedia article "List of Texas Rangers managers" which has the answer in its description. The same thing happens when I use Bing, DuckDuckGo, and even AltaVista.

Right. The point is that you don't have to search for the answer, it just gives it to you. That's a simple example of the possibilities of semantic search engines.

Re: The Future of Search Has Arrived… And Its Name is Swingly

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Post by shangomoons » Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 5:22 PM UTC

yr wrote: post #3

Answering # of your questions, Are you sure the number is correct ? It's kind of unbelievable for a startup in beta.

That's what they claim. And what Brad said is correct. According to the CEO (who is also CEO of LCC) their software is much more granular than other search engines. For example, when they scour NYT, Twitter, Blogs, etc. they are able to create about 100 semantic tags for every 1 that most of their competition does. This is how they're able to create so many Q&A pairs. They also incorporate real time keyword search along with the Q&A pairs that they have, which is something that (AFAIK) isn't done by any other company.