Professional social network Declara has expanded its series A round to include two new investors and an additional $9 million in funding. The company's technology platform uses machine learning to connect people with co-workers and content that will help them learn.…
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Semantic search will help find hidden knowledge in education and more
Semantic search will combine natural language processing and compute to help people learn and share information quickly.…
Read MoreWith a new iPad app Yummly aims to put its recipe engine right next to your stove
Recipe search engine Yummly wants to be more than just a research tool. With its new iPad app it hopes to become a digital kitchen assistant.…
Read MoreIt looks like dark search is now the norm at Google
The latest traffic report from publishing analytics startup Parse.ly shows Google still dominating in terms of referring traffic to publishers' sites -- but that referral data now comes without associated search terms 87 percent of the time.…
Read MoreYummly brings its recipe-crunching tools to the grocery store with a new iPhone app
Yummly's first mobile app doesn't just port its semantic food search engine over to iOS. Rather, the company has designed its iPhone app to be used in the grocery store rather than the kitchen.…
Read MorePureDiscovery wants to remake search in the brain’s image, raises $10M to do it
Dallas-based enterprise-search company PureDiscovery has closed a $10 million series C funding round that should help it brings its BrainSpace platform to the masses. The idea is one to build knowledge about the content of documents rather than just an index of what's where.…
Read MorePeter Thiel’s latest investments: better search and cellular nanotechnology
Thiel Foundation subsidiary Breakout Labs has funded two new startups called SkyPhrase and Stealth Biosciences that, respectively, are trying to reinvent natural language processing and improve our ability to interact with individual cells.…
Read MoreYummly opens up its recipe API to food app developers
As Punchfork gets ready to shut down its API post Pinterest acquisition, Yummly hopes to step into its shoes, proving recipe content to food sites and apps. Yummly's semantic search technology, however, has a lot to offer.…
Read MoreThe future of search is gravitational: Content will come to you
First, it was semantic search and knowledge graphs surfacing information related to our keyword searches. But there's a handful of companies working to make relevant content come to us, whatever we're doing.…
Read MoreHow recipe search site Yummly will pay its bills: Very targeted food ads
Yummly is been doing semantic recipe search for more than two years. Now it's applying its food parsing algorithms to food advertising. Its new ad platform will go beyond on the usual keywords and seek to make deeper associations between taste, nutrition and products.…
Read MoreGoogle opens prior-art patent search to the entire web
In yet another move to simplify the process of patent search, Google is now tackling the particularly tough problem of prior with a new feature. But all this innovation begs the question of whether Google, not the USPTO, should become the de facto patent search engine.…
Read MoreT-Mobile’s Genius voice-command button just got a lot smarter
T-Mobile is giving its rather pathetic MyTouch voice-command feature a much-needed overhaul. It's incorporating the same semantic-search technology Nuance uses in Dragon Go into Genius, allowing the voice assistant to search over 200 different content providers and understand intent rather than just words.…
Read MoreFor Google, keeping search relevant means baking big data into everything
Google has opened its Knowledge Graph to the English-speaking world and has made intelligent voice search possible on mobile phones. Underneath it all, of course, are ever more-complex methods of analyzing data to make search smarter and easier than it has any business being.…
Read MoreHow Atigeo uses semantics to make search interactive
Sure, you can trust a site is delivering you the best search results, but sometimes it might be nice to dig down, see a little of what the system sees and find that needle in the haystack. A new semantic search interface might let that happen.…
Read MoreSwype’s new “living keyboard” doesn’t just predict: It learns
Swype just got a whole lot smarter. Nuance is updating Swype with the same sophisticated contextual-anguage technologies it uses in its speech-recognition products. The result is what Nuance is calling a “living keyboard” -- one that can learn both its user’s vocabulary and his habits.…
Read MoreMove over Knight Rider: Nuance debuts a Siri for cars
Nuance wants you to converse with your car via the cloud. The speech recognition company already powers many of the voice technologies embedded into today’s automobiles, but today it unveiled Dragon Drive, which moves beyond simple voice commands into the realm of natural language understanding.…
Read MoreSocial commerce remains a licensing play
Right now, social commerce feels like a technology platform play rather than a retail business. According to our GigaOM Pro 1Q12 U.S. consumer survey, only 7 percent of social network users regularly shop on social networks. That’s a condition likely to continue for 24 to 36 months at least.…
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When Google started talking about exposing more of its semantic search technology, I agreed with long-time search watcher Danny Sullivan that it…
Read MoreGoogle shakes up search with new Wikipedia-like feature
Google is trying to encourage searchers to spend more time on its pages while also hoping they'll continue to think of the search company as their first destination when looking for information. A new feature called Knowledge Graph is a step in that direction.…
Read MoreSay goodbye to search and hello to BrainSpace
PureDiscovery, a Dallas-based big data startup, thinks it has the has the answer to outdated enterprise search technology, and it's called BrainSpace. Its goal is to let users find information that matters without having to search for it, to bring data to users.…
Read MoreCan big data fix a broken system for software patents?
Legal scholars are always searching for ways to improve the patent system, sometimes via sweeping changes, but big data -- especially techniques such as machine learning and natural-language processing -- could help provide a technological fix to a big part of the problem.…
Read MoreBloomReach wants to save your site traffic with big data
BloomReach emerged from stealth mode a message about how it will help ensure companies get their web pages heard above the noise online. Using a potent brew of big data techniques, BloomReach says it can significantly improve traffic by making pages more relevant to consumers.…
Read MoreTrustYou grabs $5M to make sense of online reviews
TrustYou, a Munich-based startup that makes semantic search technology for categorizing online reviews, has taken on $5 million in Series A funding to fuel its U.S. growth. The company has already put a significant portion of the funding round toward acquiring ReviewAnalyst, its Texas-based rival.…
Read MoreMonster.com melds SaaS, big data for job searches
Monster.com is getting into the cloud-computing mix with a new "semantic search and analytics platform" service called SeeMore. Merging two hot capabilities -- cloud-based delivery and analytics -- makes a lot of sense for Monster, which no doubt supplies many companies with a lot of data.…
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