Kngine: Web 3.0 Search

December 15, 2009

A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to Kngine, not to be confused with Autonomy’s origin kinjin. I think both are pronounced in a similar way. Kngine (based in Cairo) is an:

evolutionary Semantic Search Engine and Question Answer Engine designed to provide meaningful search result, such as: Semantic Information about the keyword/concept, Answer the user’s questions, Discover the relations between the keywords/concepts, and link the different kind of data together, such as: Movies, Subtitles, Photos, Price at sale store, User reviews, and Influenced story. We working on new indexing technology to unlock meaning; rather than indexing the document in Inverted Index fashion, Kngine tries to understand the documents and the search queries in order to provide meaningful search result.

There is some information about Kngine’s plumbing in the High Scalability Web log. The system uses “semantic technology”. One interesting feature of the system is snippet search. The idea is:

Snippet Search results will consist of collection of rich ranked paragraphs rather than collection of documents links. Snippet Search paragraphs is semantically related to what you looking for (i.e. content what you looking) so we will be able to get what he looking for directly without open other pages.

Haytham El-Fadeel in his blog provided additional color about the search system. He wrote on September 4, 2009:

Kngine long-term goal is to make all human beings systematic knowledge and experience accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and organize all objective data, and make it possible and easy to access. Our goal is to build on the advances of Web search engine, semantic web, data representation technologies a new form of Web search engine that will unleash a revolution of new possibilities.

I ran a number of queries on the system. I found the results useful. My query for Amtrak provided relevant hits, some suggested queries, and a thumbnail.

You can contact the company at Info@Kngine.com.

Stephen E. Arnold, December 15, 2009

Okay, okay, someone fed me date nut bread this morning in the hopes I would write about their product. That did not work. I ate the date nut bread and wrote about this outfit in Cairo. I guess this shows that you can pay this goose, but the goose does what it wants. Honk.

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under News, Online (general), Search, Semantic, Technology, Text processing

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.