RSSMicro: News and Newsfeed Search and Retrieval
August 16, 2008
I
received a thoughtful email mentioning RSSMicro, a company with a different and potentially significant approach to search and retrieval. You can learn about the company here. The company says:
RSSMicro was formed to explore new search capabilities where the web contents become extremely dynamic and grow exponentially. This behavior, along with higher user expectations, creates a dilemma that requires a search service whose capabilities go beyond the limits of conventional search engines. Without new data formats or attached date and time to the content, there will be no reliable search service or product that can efficiently index and make the content available for search. RSSMicro is building and exploring a new search service which balances the freshness, relevance, and reliability of the search results along with a substantial gain in search performance and efficiency.
The company focuses on RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, not a general Web crawl. Among the system’s features are:
- Indexing more than 5,400 news sources and about 3.2 million RSS feeds
- Search in news, blogs, press releases, forums, discussion boards, articles, and potentially anything that can be published in RSS/Atom format
- Search suggestions
- Result clustering.
I have added this company to my watch list. Check it out here. A happy quack to the person who called this interesting service to my attention.
Stephen Arnold, August 16, 2008
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