Accoona Search Engine Debuts

Posted on March 13, 2006

PC Magazine reports that Accoona has raised $100 million to produce a search engine that can take on the search leaders. Accoona uses AI algorithms and is quite bold about the capability of its search engine.

AI algorithms analyze results and rank search results according to relevance to each specific user. Information is directly relevant to the search terms.
"Accoona is modeled after the human brain, it's designed to think with you and for you," said Eckhard Pfeiffer, Accoona chairman and former Compaq president and CEO. "The next phase of the Internet is about finding, not searching. It's all about context."
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"Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning," Pfeiffer noted, quoting Winston Churchill. "Today we are making history."
With Wednesday's launch, Americans join millions of consumers in China that are already using their own version of the search tool. Accoona has secured an agreement with China Daily Information Company as the "preferred search engine portal across China for the next 20 years on an exclusive basis." China Daily was established in 1981 as the only national English-language newspaper distributed in China, according to its Web site.

Accoona lets users quickly change results from web search to news or business search. Accoona also has some great targeting options that let you limit the search results. One of the targeting options lets you show only webpages that have been updated recently -- options here include last hour, last 24 hours, last seven days and last 30 days.

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