Comments on: Grokker Mystery

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:16:58 +0000

We tried to work with Groxis/Grokker, but their price was too high for a small non-profit. The technology could really help us though. If anyone comes across with anything comparable, we would be very interested in it.I have been searching for two years for something even remotely close, but I have yet to find something. We are looking at trying to build something internally, but would prefer not to reinvent the wheel.

By: David Penney

David Penney — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:05:55 +0000

Grokker should of never went away. This is incredible software with a number of applications. Personally, I loved the web search results view. Not only did it have content rollover (maybe the first) but also able to view the relationships your query has to other data was incredible. To me the linear results that traditional search returns is numbing, Grokker bridged the gap and brought something organic to search results. I don’t believe this will be gone forever, hopefully Mr. Marcinko has the vision necessary to see this through.

By: Stephen E. Arnold

Stephen E. Arnold — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:24:38 +0000

Ever,

Like that name, Ever. Appreciate the comment.

Stephen E Arnold, January 23, 2011

By: Ever

Ever — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:57:25 +0000

Stanford University had a serious intention to use Grokker (and actually it did for a while) as it’s main searching device internally. I used it several times and I was very much looking forward to continue to do so, but for some reason it just faded away and that was that. I think I may still have an old disk where the original downloadable files came for its firs release, but finding it in my piles of stuff might be the challenge. It was nice because it allowed you to do good searches both locally on your desktop, as well as on the network and the wider Net. Was the product too advanced for its time? Did the marketing failed? Perhaps, but certainly a product like that would bring great competition to Google, and if Google ever gets interested in implementing such interface, they will be stepping in the next generation of searching engines.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:24:02 +0000

I’ve got this Grokker 2.1 icon on my desktop and wish I had the code to use the application for personal use in WIndows XP. If anyone out there has a way for me to open Grokker 2.1 and use it, I would appreciate a hollar. I’m Gary and you can find me at books@happyme.com. This was posted on Sept. 26, 2010.

By the way, I got permission to use the application from executive staff at Groxis just before they folded, but I did not get the code.

Thanks.

By: JDK

JDK — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:07:11 +0000

Sad to see it gone. Microsoft brags about Bing being a decision engine, but I find that it lags behind Google’s results, and Google is not a decision engine Grokker was.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:57:06 +0000

Sorry to hear about your problems. Good luck in the future.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:44:21 +0000

Laurie, actually Google is one of few search engines that do not skew their results based on cash from advertisers. They base their search results on popularity of the website and connections to that website. That is why they have become so popular, because, at the time Google was created, they were the only search engine that did not skew results.
The pay-per-click ads system that Google has is only for those sidebar ads and the ads you see at the top or bottom of some pages (such as this one). Those are based on you searches, but they are not part of your search results.
Google was founded, and has become one of the most successful companies in the world, based on an unbiased search engine, so you can be certain that they will never bias their search results.

By: bob jones

bob jones — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:59:26 +0000

Randy is the worse ceo and terrible business man on the planet I
have done business with him- he deliberlately lied and mislead on contracts that he was obliged to pay and did not ever do what he said he would as the ceo.

his explanation above is a cover your butt for a terrible job well done
bye to you randy you are a legend in your own mind- your investors should go to jail for investing in you.

the product is never the issue good leadership is who hire Randy???

By: Elissa Jury

Elissa Jury — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:45:21 +0000

I am a high school science research teacher. My students loved using your visual search tools and it got them started on many research paths for the last 2 years. You are sorely missed. Please let me know of any continuation of your search engine and good luck!