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Bill Clinton Helps Launch Search Engine
AP ^ | 12/7/04 | DESMOND BUTLER

Posted on 12/07/2004 8:10:24 AM PST by dukeman

NEW YORK - Former president Bill Clinton (news - web sites) 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 (news - web sites) 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. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) 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.


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I wonder whether it will filter out all the websites banned in China.
1 posted on 12/07/2004 8:10:25 AM PST by dukeman
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To: dukeman

It is really nice of him to help the chinese out. Again!


2 posted on 12/07/2004 8:12:31 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, AIr Force, Pray for all our military in hostile territory.)
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To: dukeman

Does it let the ChiComs search our classified government databases or do they go straight in with the passwords BlowJob gave them?


3 posted on 12/07/2004 8:13:48 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: dukeman

The sickening sell out of a president continues apace.

Traitorous b@stard.


4 posted on 12/07/2004 8:14:54 AM PST by datura (It's Time To Destroy The UN.)
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To: dukeman

Is it called Gobble?


5 posted on 12/07/2004 8:17:09 AM PST by BritishBulldog (New Labour - Putting the "National" back into "Socialist")
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To: Piquaboy
It is really nice of him to help the chinese out. Again!

It's payback time. He's got plenty of stock and/or options.

6 posted on 12/07/2004 8:18:04 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (if a man lives long enough, he gets to see the same thing over and over.)
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To: dukeman

Chinese still paying for the US military secrets Clinton helped them steal?

Good thing the Pubbies nailed him with Monica's stained dress though....


7 posted on 12/07/2004 8:19:11 AM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: dukeman

Can we find Monica on this fabulous website?


8 posted on 12/07/2004 8:19:14 AM PST by hgro
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To: dukeman

he's back home where he truly belongs --- now bury him with mao.


9 posted on 12/07/2004 8:20:47 AM PST by steplock (http://www.outoftimeradio.org)
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I wonder if we could have them keep him there?


10 posted on 12/07/2004 8:23:38 AM PST by bmwcyle (I wear sleepwear therefore I think (When they are off I am single minded))
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To: BritishBulldog
Is it called Gobble?

Nah, I think it's called Ogle...

11 posted on 12/07/2004 8:24:50 AM PST by Andonius_99
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"Bill Clinton Helps Launch Search Engine"

To find more WW billing records, Mena AR drug imports, the real VF sucide note? Inquiring minds want to know.


12 posted on 12/07/2004 8:29:41 AM PST by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis

Pardon me. Says Monica, my tastes have changed. I now like cream of sum-yung-gy.


13 posted on 12/07/2004 8:41:22 AM PST by JustAnotherOkie
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To: dukeman

New Chinrese sauch site rusing auhtafisher interergence disprays diflint resahts than google. Dis sho no supplies to anyrun who hab visit Chinratown. ;)


14 posted on 12/07/2004 8:43:19 AM PST by Semper Vigilantis (Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs; got to keep the loonies on the path.)
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To: dukeman

So, is this a seach engine that looks up fat sluts?


15 posted on 12/07/2004 8:45:14 AM PST by Casloy
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To: dukeman; Phantom Lord; Behind Liberal Lines
I compared searches of, shall we say, sensitive issues at Accoona and at Google. Like "tiananmen square massacre" and "china prevents access to web sites". You can see the results here.
16 posted on 12/07/2004 8:45:58 AM PST by Darth Reagan
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Is it optimized to search for porn and fast-food delivery?


17 posted on 12/07/2004 8:50:05 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: dukeman
Internet geniuses at work .... (for the children ....)


18 posted on 12/07/2004 8:50:52 AM PST by Tuba Guy
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To: dukeman

""I hope you all make lots of money," [c]linton told executives at the launch of Accoona Corp., which donated an undisclosed amount to the [c]linton Foundation."

And I'll bet that'a the last we hear of the clinton-Accoona connection in the MSM. With the right technology, an AI--actually, natural language--search engine could be 10 times more powerful than Google. I wonder what the old schlickmeister is up to...besides filling his coffers with Chinese money, that is.


19 posted on 12/07/2004 8:53:01 AM PST by cloud8
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Score!!! A new search engine backed by Clinton! I needed a better way of looking up porn on the internet.


20 posted on 12/07/2004 9:07:03 AM PST by Atomicfever
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