http://www.chinawebradar.com/445/entertainment-site-koowo-got-funding-of-55-million.html Next Generation Web in China Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:52:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.chinawebradar.com/445/entertainment-site-koowo-got-funding-of-55-million.html/comment-page-1#comment-99277 VentureBeat » The rush to people search: Viadeo, ZoomInfo, Yahoo China, Spock Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:10:10 +0000 http://www.chinawebradar.com/445/entertainment-site-koowo-got-funding-of-55-million.html#comment-99277 [...] – Yahoo China has just released a new version of its search, Yahoo.cn, that includes a people search, though it’s focused on celebrities. Yahoo uses information extraction technology and semantic analysis to create a Flash-based map of relationships, along with explanations of why they are related to and the sources of the information. China Web 2.0 provides an example of Jack Ma. Another Chinese company, Koowo, reportedly got $5.5 million for among other things, a similar mapping of Chinese stars. However, the downside is that these offerings often appear to be inaccurate. [...] [...] – Yahoo China has just released a new version of its search, Yahoo.cn, that includes a people search, though it’s focused on celebrities. Yahoo uses information extraction technology and semantic analysis to create a Flash-based map of relationships, along with explanations of why they are related to and the sources of the information. China Web 2.0 provides an example of Jack Ma. Another Chinese company, Koowo, reportedly got $5.5 million for among other things, a similar mapping of Chinese stars. However, the downside is that these offerings often appear to be inaccurate. [...]

]]> http://www.chinawebradar.com/445/entertainment-site-koowo-got-funding-of-55-million.html/comment-page-1#comment-99193 Yahoo China Launches People Search : China Web2.0 Review Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:20:26 +0000 http://www.chinawebradar.com/445/entertainment-site-koowo-got-funding-of-55-million.html#comment-99193 [...] In fact, the idea of a flash relationship map is not new, Koowo also has a people relationship map for entertainment stars. And I found there are many incorrect relationships found by Yahoo, it still has to put great efforts in improving it before it finally becomes useful. If comparing it with the real people search engine as Spock, I would prefer Spock, since it provide better aggregated results than Yahoo China. [...] [...] In fact, the idea of a flash relationship map is not new, Koowo also has a people relationship map for entertainment stars. And I found there are many incorrect relationships found by Yahoo, it still has to put great efforts in improving it before it finally becomes useful. If comparing it with the real people search engine as Spock, I would prefer Spock, since it provide better aggregated results than Yahoo China. [...]

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