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In Battle With Amazon, Walmart Unveils Polaris, A Semantic Search Engine For Products
Walmart is today unveiling a new search engine named “Polaris” which now powers Walmart.com, as well as the company’s mobile web and mobile apps, and offers a 10%-15% increased likelihood that a customer…
How Your Social Data Will Power Walmart’s E-Commerce Revolution
Walmart is planning to launch several new projects this holiday season based on the technology it acquired from the social media startup Kosmix back in April. Kosmix’s platform previously powered…
Walmart Ventures Into The Social Media Space With Acquisition Of Kosmix
Walmart this morning said it is buying Mountain View-based Kosmix, a heavily funded social media technology provider that has built a platform that enables users to filter and organize content…
Kosmix Kills Off MeeHive's Custom News Service As It Focuses On TweetBeat
Back in March 2009 I wrote about MeeHive, a service launched by Kosmix that promised to give users custom-built newspapers by piecing together stories from blogs and news sites across…
TweetBeat Wants To Kill Hashtags On Twitter By Making Them Obsolete
Back in June we previewed a new product by social media search engine Kosmix called TweetBeat. Essentially, it’s a way to follow news being discussed on Twitter in realtime. Today…
Kosmix Unleashes Its Realtime Tweetbeat On The World Cup
The problem with Twitter is that it is too noisy. Filtering the signal from the noise is still too burdensome. The founders of search engine Kosmix think they have an…
Twitter Turns On The Firehose For Realtime Search Startups
When it comes to getting access to all the data that flows through Twitter, there are the 50,000 apps that drink from Twitter’s Streaming API, which is subject to various…
Kosmix Acquires Cruxlux, The Online Version Of 'Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon'
Kosmix, the reference engine that dynamically generates comprehensive topic pages as soon as you search for them, has just acquired a small startup called Cruxlux. Cruxlux has spent the last…
Universal Search Takes Off: Kosmix Posts 419% Growth In March
Kosmix, the universal search engine that dynamically generates guides to search queries using dozens of different content sources, is quickly gaining momentum. According to today’s latest comScore numbers, the site…
MeeHive Taps Into Kosmix To Build Your Daily Personalized Newspaper
MeeHive is a new service launching today that is looking to give users a custom-tailored newspaper composed of stories from sources spanning a vast number of blogs and news sites.…
Kosmix Raises $20 Million More For Its Universal Search Engine
Kosmix, a universal search engine that pulls data from a variety of sources including Wikipedia, Yahoo Buzz and our own CrunchBase, has closed a $20 million round led by Time…
Kosmix Goes Horizontal
Kosmix, until now a vertical search engine for information about health, automobiles and travel, transformed itself into a universal search engine for all subjects earlier today during a general redesign.…
Find Something That Is "X" And Has "Y" With Circos
Keyword search gets you pretty far when looking for pure information, but doesn’t help much on more qualitative searches like trying to find the hippest restaurant in SOHO. Searches like…
Will Kosmix's Plan To Take Vertical Search Horizontal Go Flat?
Kosmix is a vertical search engine that launched in 2006. They also raised a heap of cash – over $25 million from Accel, Lightspeed and Cambrian Ventures as well as…
A Taste of DEMO 2006
DEMO 2006: 70 companies gather at a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona to compete head on for our attention. $15,000 buys you 5 minutes in front of 700 people, and a…