Tag: search engine
Pinecone to Bolster Vector Search Engineering Team Following Series A
Pinecone Systems, a pioneer in enabling vector search, will be bolstering its engineering team to solidify its early momentum in the booming vector database business following its $28 million Series A, the company told D Read more…
Domain Codex Releases Domain Intelligence Search Engine
There are hundreds of millions of registered domain names in the world, with tens of millions of new domains registered every year. Meaningfully combing through these domain names — and the data associated with them � Read more…
Home Depot Finds DIY Success with Vector Search
Like all big companies, Home Depot has a list of IT projects that it wants to tackle. When the COVID pandemic hit two years ago and ecommerce activity surged, it accelerated one of them in particular: the development of Read more…
Are Neural Nets the Next Big Thing in Search?
Many, if not most, search engines in use today are based on keywords, in which the search engine attempts to find the best match for a word or set of words used as input. It’s a tried-and-true method that has been depl Read more…
Yahoo’s Vespa Takes a Whack at CORD-19 Data
Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) is giving its new Vespa search engine a chance to show what it can do against CORD-19, the collection of scholarly articles about COVID-19. The company is inviting the public to try using V Read more…
Searching Geospatial Data Gets Easier
Geo-location data is among the next wave of content to be churned by search engines as public access to more geospatial data becomes widely available. Several new approaches have emerging to both provide easier access Read more…
Unstructured Data Search Engine Has Roots in HPC
A search engine first developed in the HPC world to identify anomalies in biomedical images and then used by the military to track terrorists from UAV imagery is now being applied to the world's vast supply of unstructur Read more…
Machine Vision Used to Wrangle Image Explosion
We live in a world besotted with images: selfies, Instagram photos, video clips running on social media platforms that make it easy to instantly post images captured by smartphones and other devices. The explosion of Read more…