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Posted By : Vikram Sahai, on August 25, 2007 @ 11:20 pm | View Original
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Ever heard of Spock?

Well, it is search engine for people!!! There has been quite a buzz about it lately. It is still in beta version but it has already began to spread its popularity on the web with its rich feature set and social aspects.

There are four things that makes their approach special:

  • The person-centric perspective of a query
  • Rich set of attributes that characterize people (geography, birthday, occupation, etc.)
  • Usage of tags as links or relationships between people (friend, foe, son, daughter,etc.)
  • Self-correcting mechanism via user feedback loop

My Spock Profile:

By the way, the co-founders of spock are Jaideep Singh and Jay Bhatti. Take a look at their profiles…

“Spock is going to become the central point for searching for people,” Bhatti says simply. “Everyone will go to us and nowhere else.”


I personally think that this search engine is the future. Just Imagine how valuable information could be obtained. Just Imagine. A new dimension to the internet….Lovely…

Currently, spock.com has a google rank of 5…It is just a matter of time that it will attain level 10!!!

What next ?

We could be witnessing a Google vs Spock!!!!
There are lots of differences about the functioning of these two. For example, when Google looks at a web page, it doesn’t care what the document is about. All it cares about is whether the document has the relevant keyword that you’ve searched for. When Spock builds up a search, it has to care about whether it’s about a person, and, if it is a person, what’s relevant, and what are all the keywords about that person. So the technology and the algorithms for what we do are totally different from Google’s.

Let’s wait n watch…
Don’t forget to register there as soon as possible

Useful Links:
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3684341
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/spock_vertical_search_done_right.php

Posted By : Vikram Sahai, on April 23, 2007 @ 9:08 pm | View Original
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Linux on PS3 would have meant nothing to me, if i had not done parallel processing at the university of Mauritius. I intend to get myself a PS3 within the next 6 month and do justice to the PS3 processing capabilities by installing Linux on it.

So, if you already got your PS3 and want to install Linux on your machine then check this site.

Get your free Ubuntu 7.04 here

Note: PS3 is approximately 40 times more powerful than the PS2 and 3 times more powerful than the XBOX 360. And, emulating a PS2!!! game requires a very powerful Pentium 4 (3.00 GHz or above). The rest is simple logic!!! Check this Link for more details.

Like someone very familiar/popular always says….Have Fun ;-)

Posted By : Vikram Sahai, on April 15, 2007 @ 8:50 pm | View Original
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Imagine the real monsters of Yu-Gi-Oh coming to life… Just imagine…Ok Ok that’s may be a bit far-fetched. But, Playstation 3 mixed with some fantastic abilities of computer vision may well do the job.

Watch this video and start dreaming

Until then why not challenge me for a duel…
In case you don’t know how to play Yu-Gi-Oh online, check this link

Have fun!!!

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