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Wednesday, 11th August 2004

Learn About A New Search Startup: Kozoru

Information Retrieval
Web Search
Source: The Johnson County Sun
Learn About A New Search Startup: Kozoru
and
Search engine startup gets funds
Source: Kansas City Star
It's always exciting to read about new efforts in search. This one appears to go into the natural language/answer engine category. Remember, most of the big names in search today started small, very small. One of them will soon go public. Of course, bigger doesn't always mean better and numerous small and specialized search tools do a great job and offer exciting innovations. Kozoru is based in Overland Park, Kansas. Here are a few interesting sections from the JCS article:
+ "Kozoru's goal is to transcend the likes of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft by creating an entirely new platform that would allow language-based - not keyword-based - searches."
+ "[Company founder John] Flowers and his team believe today's search technology user is being sold on the idea of 'more is better' instead of 'correct is better.'"
+ "The fundamental paradox, as Flowers puts it, is that computers are really good with math but really bad with language. Flowers struggled with this dilemma through a stint working for Microsoft and while helping develop the Inquisite Web survey system and starting his first entrepreneurial effort, nCircle Network Security.
+ "After translating more than 980,000 words in the English language into codes of ones and zeroes, Kozoru's first objective will be to establish a knowledge base. To do this they will first turn to the most objective source for language information, the dictionary. After establishing that system, they will incorporate the most objective source for historical information, the encyclopedia."
This might also be an opportunity for the info community to get involved with a search community in the very early stages. Thanks to SEW Forums for the link.
See Also: Direct to the Kozoru Home Page

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