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The Future of Search Has Arrived… And Its Name is Swingly
- bradleyjoyce 16y agohi - we just moved the site to a new server today and the DNS is still propagating in some regions, so if you get a 404 that is why!
- yr 16y agoAnswering # of your questions, Are you sure the number is correct ? It's kind of unbelievable for a startup in beta.
- bradleyjoyce 16y agoit's sort of hard to classify swingly as a typical startup... it's more like a company incubated within a larger corporation.. they are licensing TONS of data from their parent company, which has been collecting this type of data for 10+ years or something like that
- shangomoons 16y agoThat's what they claim. And what Brad said is correct. According to the CEO (who is also CEO of LCC) their software is much more granular than other search engines. For example, when they scour NYT, Twitter, Blogs, etc. they are able to create about 100 semantic tags for every 1 that most of their competition does. This is how they're able to create so many Q&A pairs. They also incorporate real time keyword search along with the Q&A pairs that they have, which is something that (AFAIK) isn't done by any other company.
- martey 16y agoFrom the article: In Swingly…. I just ask it the question. ”Who was the first manager of the Texas Rangers?” And then I’m given an answer (Mickey Vernon). When I google "Who was the first manager of the Texas Rangers?", the first result is the Wikipedia article "List of Texas Rangers managers" which has the answer in its description. The same thing happens when I use Bing, DuckDuckGo, and even AltaVista.
- shangomoons 16y agoRight. The point is that you don't have to search for the answer, it just gives it to you. That's a simple example of the possibilities of semantic search engines.