Natural language processing is partly used in text search today, but its use in image search is mostly unexplored. I did a quick hack: askBoss, which retrieves images to questions posed in natural language. askBoss attempts to enhance image results for...
Topics: mashup, search, yahoo boss

We at Y! MyBlogLog have launched one of the very first open recommendation systems for publishers. The personal content offerings are now no longer limited to the big players with huge amount of user generated content. It is now possible through our new..
Topics: mybloglog, Personal, plugins, recommendations, wordpress

Webaroo has raised $10 million in a recent round of funding for its product SMSGupshup. Webaroo was founded by IIT Bombay alumnus and serial entrepreneurs Rakesh Mathur (founder of Armedia, Junglee, Stratify) and Beerud Sheth (founder of Elance) in 2004..
Topics: iitb, Startups, trends, twitter, webaroo

I have been damn lazy to write this post, but recently after reading a RWW post, 11 Search Trends That May Disrupt Google, I decided to gather my thoughts here.Adding to the RWW post, let me try to bring up some minus and plus of todays search era ruled..
Topics: google, search, trends

Yesterday, a friend of mine was looking for a way to download original photos from one of his sets on flickr. Since we could not find any flickr downloader which can run on Linux, (for windows you can try : http://flickrslideshow.fateback.com/), I...
Topics: downloader, flickr