Gool.li Service Offline
October 16, 2014
This may be old news. We were updating out list of search engines and received an error from the service called Gool.li, a metasearch system. Our last check for this system was in January 2013. At that time the company’s Web site was online and an Android app was available. The name is a variant of the Arabic phrase for “tell me”. More information about the system is available in a nine deck slide presentation at this link.
As you may recall, the service used a panel-style interface or what the company called “cards design”. Each panel corresponded to particular types of content.
The system was described as delivering “knowledge as a service.” One interesting feature of the search results was a grouping of links by domains.
The company was based in Montréal and was a project of Al Akhawayn University. My search file suggests that the system architect may have been Jawad Jari and the service utilized Amazon Web services.
Web metasearch seems to be a harsh taskmaster.
Stephen E Arnold, October 17, 2014
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