hakia, the First Search Engine to Mix News with Web Search Results, Increases News Content Volume by 100%

hakia, the Web’s new meaning-based search engine, which became the first-ever search engine to mix news with Web search results in August 2006, has announced

immediate doubling of content volume in its “news with Web search results.” The technology upgrade further assures split-second freshness-of-results to a given query.

Unlike other search engines, hakia's semantic capability does not require a list of trigger words.

According to Dr. Riza C. Berkan, CEO of hakia, "Our approach is to analyze news content without relying on designated trigger words. This capability is due to full-scale

semantic analysis that we can perform in a split second, on-the-fly. With this announcement one sees that the future of searching dynamic content is already here. The

standard practice had been to bring news only if your query included a trigger word or phrase like 'election votes'."

The proprietary SemanticRankTM algorithm lets hakia analyze news content in a split-second, unlike other search algorithms which rely on the accumulation of statistics for

popularity-based ranking. “There is no time to collect popularity votes for news content, thus the only means for effective search is the semantic approach, which does a

complete job almost instantaneously," added Dr. Berkan.

hakia continues its development and evolution through its BETA operation, and expects to reach maturation by the end of 2007. Until then, the company plans to continue to

increase its news-mixing capacity.

About hakia

hakia has developed the Web’s new meaning-based search engine, utilizing a radically new infrastructure designed to deliver the most relevant search results. Founded in

2004, the company is privately held and based in New York City. Go to http://www.hakia.com.

Contacts
For hakia
Rob Wyse, 212-920-1470
rob@m1pr.com

Source : businesswire.com