Posted on 12/06/2004 9:04:42 PM PST by quantim
NEW YORK (AP) Former president Bill Clinton on Monday helped launch a new Internet search company backed by the Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google Inc.
"I hope you all make lots of money," Clinton told executives at the launch of Accoona Corp., which donated an undisclosed amount to the William J. Clinton Foundation.
The Chinese government, one of several large backers, has granted Accoona a 20-year exclusive partnership with the China Daily Information Co., the government agency that runs an official Chinese and English Web site.
The deal gives Accoona data on some 5 million Chinese companies, which Accoona sees as a lucrative opportunity as U.S. businesses seek to do business in China ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
The new company's executives include chairman Eckhard Pfeiffer, the former chief executive of Compaq Corp., and Stuart Kauder, a former business development director at online advertising company DoubleClick Inc.
Accoona takes its name from the Swahili phrase, "accoona matata," for "no worries," popularized by Disney's film, "The Lion King."
The company seeks to distinguish itself from Google, Yahoo Inc. and growing list of other search engine players by using artificial intelligence to make the results more relevant, said Pfeiffer. Unlike traditional search engines that seek specific "keyword" matches, Accoona will access Web pages that may have no exact keyword matches but are still relevant to the query, he explained.
"Accoona's artificial intelligence technology will elevate search engine performance to a new unprecedented level, allowing the most relevant search available today," Pfeiffer said.
I was wrong.
I was certain it was going to be about
a very tailored search engine to
seek out AVAILABLE BIMBOS
at every locale.
Holy crap!
I said it in jest but search "tiananmen massacre"
It returns the Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the first few results and only one result that mentions it in passing. A total whitewash of the event. No wonder Bill Clinton loves this. It clears bad events from history.
Good one.
"Democrap", hehehehe love that toooooooo.
I bit too, blush. "Search to no avail" has not yet failed me.
Does it have a lot of pop-ups?
Now maybe he can help find all of those documents Sandy Burger stole.
exactly my thoughts. and he must be searching for more ways to sell out America.
When I searched, the damn thing didn't even work.
This was my result:
HTTP Status 503 - Servlet accoona is currently unavailable
If it's a searh engine, perhaps it can be used to find all those asians who fled the nation rather than testify about their knowledge regarding Clinton's campaign finance violations. Once it finds them, it could be tasked to find him a dark cold cell, suitable for his housing for the next thirty years.
This is their great AI:
A check-box.
How to Supertarget
Accoona gives you the ability to use Artificial Intelligence technology to "SuperTarget" your searches. "SuperTarget" is the term used by Accoona to describe the search features that enable searchers to highlight specific terms within the search query.
The ability to "SuperTarget" a search is valuable to all Internet users who want to be able to focus their search to individual words within a query. This technology allows users to efficiently find their way through the billions of pages published on the Internet.
How "SuperTargeting" Works
"SuperTargeting" depends on sophisticated Artificial Intelligence technology but Accoona makes this feature easy to use. Accoona adds another step in which you see the words you typed in your search query appear separately with a box next to each one. All you have to do is put a check into the box that contains the most important word or words in the phrase.
For example, let's assume the search term you are using is "Discount Diamond Jewelry." If you are most interested in paying a low price you would put a check in the "discount" box. If more than one term is more important you can check additional boxes. Providing this additional search information takes only seconds as it provides Accoona Artificial Intelligence technology the information to find more relevant results for you.
Is Slick Willy still on the Chicom payroll?
You can bet on it!!!!!!!!!!!!! What are you going to do?
Is there anything this piece of slime won't do for a dollar?
Funny thing about this search engine... if you type in "Whitewater", or "Rose Law Firm," or "Lewinsky" you get 0 results...
I just tried to search my tagline on this domain and got the same error. It remains #1 on Google.
Victory is not relative, it is absolute. And that goes for search engines too.
Accoona Corp
China and Clinton, could we even trust it??
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