Exclusive Interview with the Founder of Xyggy
January 25, 2011
Last year, I had an email exchange with Dinesh Vadhia, founder of the Xyggy search and content processing company. I did some poking around as did one of my colleagues. We were able to engage Mr. Vadhia in a lengthy conversation on January 20, 2011. In the course of that discussion he said:
Xyggy’s item-search is a new framework for IR based on how people learn concepts and generalize to new items. For instance, shown one or two apples for the first time you will thereafter be able to point to apples every time one crosses your path. The apple may appear as the fruit or in an image and yet we have the remarkable ability to absorb a small amount of information and generalize to new instances. The ability to learn concepts from examples and to generalize to new items is one of the cornerstones of intelligence….Xyggy’s item-search method is a new IR tool for solving the ‘findability’ problem. Without a new tool you only have conventional and well travelled paths to address the problem.
We found his approach and insights refreshing. You can read the full text of the interview with Mr. Vadhia on the ArnoldIT.com Web site in the Search Wizards Speak sub-site. SWS is the largest collection of first-person statements about search and content processing available without charge. Why pay crazy amounts for recycled pablum. Read what search developers themselves say about their methods and systems.
Stephen E Arnold, January 25, 2011
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