Could IBM Shake up the Search Engine World? 193
overshoot writes "IBM has just tossed a bucket of chum into the whole search showdown, which Microsoft thought was between them and Google. Apparently, IBM Research has developed a 'key facts' search technology (as distinct from 'key words') over the last several years. Now they're going public with it -- by putting it on SourceForge under an OSS license!" (According to the article, it's expected to show up on SourceForge by the end of this year, not immediately.)
Slow down IBM ... (Score:2, Funny)
SourceForge proposal... (Score:2, Funny)
ok but (Score:5, Funny)
Yay. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yay. (Score:2, Funny)
chum and guns (Score:5, Funny)
This is an awful mixed metaphor. How does Slashdot expect its readers to navigate the treacherous IT seas with such poorly-seasoned and half-baked information?
I, for one, ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Spotlight! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:chum and guns (Score:5, Funny)
It's easy when you're three sheets to the wind, even if you pepper your reply with editorial condiments. Anyway, the goose is sufficiently sauced to be worth a gander.
Re:chum and guns (Score:5, Funny)
Re:what about yahoo!? (Score:4, Funny)
My grandparents are weird.
Just for Reference (Score:5, Funny)
10 fews = 1 some
10 somes = 1 alot
10 alots = 1 load
10 loads = 1 buttload
10 buttloads = 1 assload
10 assloads = 1 shitload
10 shitloads = 1 fuckload
I do not have the book here or I would give the non-metric chart, you know how hard it is to remeber how many hogsheads are in an imperial buttload?
Re:http://almaden.ibm.com/cs/crawler (Score:2, Funny)