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Twitter Acquires Social Search Company Julpan

in Social on September 21, 2011 at 11:10 am PT

Twitter has acquired a social search company called Julpan, founded by noted search engineer Ori Allon, and will be bringing its team of 12 into its new New York office.
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Google Tries to Get Smarter, More Useful

in News on March 23, 2009 at 1:27 pm PT

Search engines are pretty good at finding Web pages closely related to exact terms users type in. They’ve had less success finding results that are conceptually related to what a user is looking for. For instance, a search for “abstract expressionism” may have missed certain results for the related artistic movement “surrealism.”