Inform.com Makes Its Debut
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Written By Reprise Media | October 17, 2005 | Share This
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Inform.com launched today. It’s an online news and blog search system that serves up links to related material based on an individual’s reading history.
New York-based Inform Technologies LLC is behind the endeavour with former CapitalIQ CEO Neal Goldman at the helm.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah,” you say. “Another news and blog search site. What makes Inform think it’s so great?”
According to this AP article, the difference is in the way items are indexed:
“Inform tags and scores the elements of each article, making them far more searchable than keyword-based news search offered by Google News or the summary searches of a story’s first paragraph offered by RSS (Really Simple Syndication) services.”
This comes in handy when you’re dealing with disambiguation. A search for “Ivory Coast” will also give you results for the country’s proper name, “Cote d’Ivoire.”
Ad revenue is next on the agenda for the 55 employee company with eventual plans to offer subscriptions, pay-per-view articles, archived news and merchandise sales.
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