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Search Engine Uses Distributed Computing System
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Los Angeles, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 19, 2006 -
Inventerprise LLC, a product development company based in Los Angeles, California, and Viking Web Development, based in Fargo, North Dakota have developed a search engine that is 100% user-generated. Jatalla.com is expected for beta release in July. The essential system was created in 1999, and patent filings in 2003 and 2004 disclose the current Jatalla.com search engine, plus numerous functions not scheduled for deployment until next year.
An Inventerprise representative noted, ''We're excited, and we're counting on users to make the project a success. Just like a wiki, a social bookmarking service, or a folksonomic tagging system, Jatalla.com offers 100% user-created and user-maintained content. We provide the vessel; users themselves provide the search results. We believe that people are still smarter than computers, and that people are better researchers than are computer algorithms. Jatalla.com is like a modern 'John Henry' story.''
Jatalla.com is designed so that any registered user can submit a vote called a ''lexivote'', consisting of two parts: (i) a word or phrase and (ii) a list of up to three URLs. The lexivote is counted along with all others that include the exact same term. Thereafter, when a user queries the search engine using that term, a list of URLs, ranked according to the lexivotes, is returned. Each user is limited to only one lexivote per search term.
According to the company, in leveraging the collective intelligence of Internet users worldwide, the Jatalla.com search engine can be likened to a distributed computing system, except that all the search algorithms are contained in people's heads. Such an approach departs from the computer-based algorithms that drive the dominant search engines of today and leverages increased demand for adding the consumer’s voice to the media chorus. Another noteworthy benefit the new search engine provides, is immediate responsiveness. Jatalla.com system instantaneously responds to lexivotes, so that web pages pertaining to a particular news event can appear in search results moments after being posted.
To learn more, please visit: www.jatalla.com.
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