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Liquid Helium works through heuristiics. LHe is the symbol for Liquid Helium in science, and is the intitials for Language Heuristics Engine. (we are so clever
by drakaal 14y ago
Liquid Helium works through heuristiics. LHe is the symbol for Liquid Helium in science, and is the intitials for Language Heuristics Engine. (we are so clever we know)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pb_F1mwLCo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pb_F1mwLCo explains it oversimplified.
Basically we create a very efficient set of classifiers using sieves.
Imagine you want to find a "How To".
What makes a great How To? It should be instructional. Have steps. It shouldn't have a lot of opinion. It should have good descriptions. It should be written as commands in the "you" form.
These are all language constructs we can identify. Then we score a document to see that it meets a minimum requirement to be a "how to".
When you do a search we filter and rank results based on what kind of search we think you were performing. We determine the type of search based on what other people have searched, what kinds of documents come back and we build an "ideal result profile" which we attempt to meet with the documents in our result set.
If you are looking for a review we try to find a balance of positive and negative.
If you are looking for a song we try to find lyrics and videos of that song.
We also summarize each result.
Some of these things happen only after someone has done a search for the first time. So if you are the first person to try a search you may have to wait 30 seconds and try again.
- hnriot 14y agoSo, like google except not anywhere near as fast? I tried it, the results were ok, I didn't see any result that was better than Google (or bing). I'm suspicious of anything that starts out by saying search is broken. It isn't. All these things you have built like sentiment analysis and summarization etc do nothing new than using page rank. The reason is, those balanced review, well written pages are the same ones that humans have curated and used in their own citations. People do a much better job of language understanding than some simple sentiment analysis and the other other things you do. Because humans do it better, when google comes along and leverages all that human curation, the results are staggeringly good. Sure, there are easy to find edge cases, just like there were with your engine when i tried it, but I don't see anything new here. Maybe you could provide some example queries that demonstrate it producing better results than google or bing? If, you could do comparison queries like Nikon vs canon and it produced a summarized report, that would be interesting, but it didn't do that. Song lyrics are easy! That doesn't demo anything, nothing could be easier for a search engine than song lyrics...
- drakaal 14y agoLike Google? No. Google uses inlinks and Keyword density. Really how do you know something is a song? It's not the finding that is hard, it is the knowing what to look for.