1. Dongyao Li from Wiser-Pku 2009-09-09
-Cuil, Kosmix and Wolfram Alpha
INTRODUCTION OF THREE SEARCH
ENGINES

2. Dongyao Li from Wiser-Pku 2009-09-09
DIFFERENCES WITH GOOGLE
 The most significant difference between the first
two with Google is that they provide organized
data and result.
 Furthermore, Wolfram Alpha tries to make all the
knowledge computable. Become a question and
answer

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CUIL
 Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge.
 Cuil declares itself as the world’s biggest search engine
 Most important -- Cuil offers, organizes and categorizes
search result according to the content’s internal relation
rather then the popularity of each item.
 Search Visualization and refine results.
 Good interface

4. Dongyao Li from Wiser-Pku 2009-09-09
CUIL EXAMPLE-- GOOGLE

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KOSMIX
 Kosmix is a guide to the Web and quite different
from traditional Web search
 goal : tell me more about something
 Presenting a dashboard of relevant videos,
photos, news, commentary, opinion,
communities and links to related topics in a
magazine-style topic pages

7. Dongyao Li from Wiser-Pku 2009-09-09
KOSMIX EXAMPLE– GOOGLE(COMPANY)

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AND A LOT OF THINGS IN THIS “MAGAZINE”

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WOLFRAM ALPHA
 Quick introduction(video show):
http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/intr
oducingwolframalpha.html
 Type input and give you the result
 A few example can be fascinating enough.

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JUST A FEW EXAMPLES AND MORE FOR YOU TO
EXPLORE
 Let’s use them!