When Pinecone announced a vector database at the beginning of last year, it was building something that was specifically designed for machine learning and aimed at data scientists. The idea was that y
Swiss-based semantic search company Hulbee, which launched a consumer search engine in the U.S. this August, has closed a $9 million angel funding. It's positioning its consumer search offering as a p
Apple's <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/apple-siri-200-million/">acquisition of Siri in 2010</a> gave the company the technology it needed to build a voice-activated personal assistant for
Some more consolidation in the world of social media services and technology. UK-based <a target="_blank" href="http://www.brandembassy.com">Brand Embassy</a>, a provider of social-media based custom
Walmart is today unveiling a new search engine named "Polaris" which now powers <a target="_blank" href="http://www.walmart.com">Walmart.com</a>, as well as the company's mobile web and mobile apps,
Today, Google is launching one of its most ambitious and interesting updates to its search engine in recent months. Starting in a few days, you will start to see large panels with additional factual
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