Hakia Raises $2 Million for Semantic Search
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Semantic search engine Hakia has raised $2 million of a planned $5 million round, according to VentureWire (via VentureBeat). The funding, from an unidentified investor, follows $16 million in funding that was announced last year, bringing its total raise to $18 million. Previous institutional backers include Noble Grossart Investments Ltd., Alexandra Investment Management, Prokom Investments and KVK. The NYC-based company is one of several startups claiming to be analyze content based on meaning. Others in the space include Powerset and Yedda, which was acquired by AOL. The site has also unveiled a social element, similar to what ChaCha is doing.
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Will a nonprofit-driven browser tackle the behemoth from Redmond?
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OSLO/NEW YORK  - Microsoft Corp made a $1.2 billion offer to buy Norwegian Web search software company Fast Search & Transfer in a deal that would help the world's largest software maker expand into the market for business-oriented search.
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Ask.com enhances its search engine offerings.
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The Jimmy Wales-founded organization, which encompasses Wikipedia and a number of other wiki-based sites, is appealing to its reader for donations to help expand its language reach (among other things).
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New Scholar service promises next level of search engines.
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A British firm wins a prestigious Artificial Intelligence prize for the second year running.
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The world's most popular search engine has launched a new tool to improve access to academic publications.
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Microsoft bid $1.2 billion for Fast Search & Transfer, which specializes in high-end Internet search and business intelligence systems now used by many major companies.
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Its new enterprise search appliance has more tagging and customization.
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The search engine (www.ask.com) made its fame toward the end of the last millennium by encouraging Web surfers to enter &quot;natural language&quot; questions, rather than search terms -- instead of
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Human-assisted search site ChaCha.com offers its work-at-home guides a way
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Search engine Google launches a service that allows users to search and browse over two centuries of news.
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Ask.com is the newest search engine to dish up new features.
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Germany gets a green light from the European Union to give $165 million for research on internet search-engine tech that could challenge Google. The Theseus project would develop an advanced multimedia search engine to translate, identify and index images, audio and text.
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Krugle search engine gaining popularity as a key tool for developers looking for open-source code.
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OSLO/LAS VEGAS  - Microsoft Corp  bid $1.2  billion to buy Norwegian business search software company Fast  Search & Transfer  in a deal focused on helping  corporations manage and sift through their own files, a growing  market also targeted by Google Inc .