Infoaxe Real-time Search
Infoaxe Real-time Search
At Infoaxe, we launched our new Real-time Search Engine at the Real-time CrunchUp organized by TechCrunch in San Francisco. TechCrunch, VentureBeat & GigaOm covered our launch. Many thanks to Leena, Kim & Liz! The NYTimes & CNN also picked up the story which was exciting.
With Infoaxe’s Real Time Search you ask the question, ‘What’s popular now for X?’ (where X is your search query).
For eg. if you search for ‘iphone review’, Google shows a review of the first generation iphone from 2007 which is irrelevant now. Infoaxe on the other hand, shows a review of the iphone 3GS which is what is relevant NOW for such a query.
Infoaxe’s real-time search engine works by analyzing the aggregate attention data collected by our Web History Search Engine with over 2.5 million users. We know what the world is looking at NOW and leverage that data to figure out the most timely and relevant results for queries. Infoaxe’s ranking algorithms use signals derived from this aggregate browsing data to provide a real-time view of the Web for searchers. Instead of merely sorting results by time, Infoaxe’s algorithms use freshness as a signal alongside several other relevance signals to provide relevant results. We think the best result for a query is one that is as fresh as possible but not fresher ;P. We think Einstein would agree 
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Infoaxe does particularly well for queries relating to Shopping, deals, movies/sitcoms/ebooks etc. Check it out here and let us know what you think! This is just our first step out the door. We are constantly tuning our ranking our indexing algorithms so expect search quality to keep improving!
FeedShare – What are my friends reading today?
At Infoaxe, we are currently experimenting with a new Feature called ‘Feed Share’. You might have received an Infoaxe friend request/message inviting you to try out the service.
So, what is FeedShare?
With the deluge of information available on the Web, it has become much harder to sift through and find content(news, videos etc) that is relevant and interesting to us. At Infoaxe, we are hoping to make that sifting a little easier (and maybe even fun ) by letting you filter it via your friends.
Feed Share answers the simple question “What are my friends reading today?” You can,
- Stay up to date with news, videos and other interesting articles your friends are reading on the Web
- Share your favorite sites with your friends who will be able to see whenever you read an article on these sites (or watch a video)
[Image courtesy:http://blog.campography.com/]
Using FeedShare is very simple,
Step 1: Select the sites you want to share with your friends. You will be able to conveniently manage your shared sites later.
Step 2: Invite friends to follow (in a manner similar to Twitter, Friendfeed etc). Invite your friends so that, they can see what you’re sharing and you can keep track of what they are sharing as well. In your FeedShare home page, you will see updates from the friends you are following.
Webpages get added to your Feed on FeedShare ONLY if you have the extension installed with Record ON. You can get the infoaxe addon for Firefox here and for Internet Explorer here.
As always, at Infoaxe we are extremely careful with respecting your Privacy. We will never share anything without your explicit permission. You can always a delete a site later from your shared sites. You can also delete explicit items that are shared.
Click here to get started with FeedShare!
Infoaxe is now a Mozilla Recommended Addon for Firefox!
Infoaxe is now a Mozilla Recommended Addon for Firefox! You can download Infoaxe from the Mozilla site here.
You can find Infoaxe under Bookmarks, Search Tools, Toolbars, Social & Communication & Other categories on the Mozilla Addons Site.
Remember that Infoaxe is also available for Internet Explorer here in the brand new Microsoft Internet Explorer Addons Gallery!
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We hope you’re finding Infoaxe useful. As always email us at support@infoaxe.com to let us know your thoughts, what you like, hate etc.
With Infoaxe, View a Page on IE at work, search & find it on Firefox at home!
One of the benefits of maintaining your Web Memory/History with Infoaxe is to keep your Web Memory in sync across multiple computers and browsers. For example, with Infoaxe you can view a page in your Internet Explorer browser at work and search and find it again from Firefox at home! 
With Quick Links (which are like bookmarks), you can bookmark something in Internet Explorer and have it show up on Firefox! (and vice versa of course)
How cool is that? It’s one unified web memory that you can maintain across ALL the computers and browsers you use. To reap these benefits make sure you have Infoaxe installed on ALL the computers and browsers you use.
You can find our Firefox addon here and our Internet Explorer Addon here.
The Infoaxe Vs Google Challenge! (Be Lazy while searching!:))
“Be Lazy” may not sound like particularly good advice but that is the advice we give to Infoaxe users!
The obvious benefit of having a search engine for your Web Memory is that you will never forget a web page again. You have a search engine for our very own slice of the Web.
However, there is a slightly less obvious but LARGER benefit to using Infoaxe namely Personalization for Search. With Infoaxe searching your personal Web, you can now be lazy when you query Google/Yahoo/Live. (In the remainder of this post, when I say Google please do a macro substitution with Google/Yahoo/Live Search ).
Let me explain with an example, say I wanted to go to Martin Lefebvre’s page on linkedin (Martin is an investor at Infoaxe). In Google only the query “martin lefebvre linkedin” gives me the right result at number 1.
With Infoaxe (see image below) on the other hand, I can just type in “martin” and get what I want right at the top! Here its a savings of 2 words (or ~67% improvement).
Convinced?
Here is another example (again from personal usage). There is this really cool Thai restaurant called Siam Royal in Palo Alto. Just like everybody else, if I want to meet someone for lunch at Siam Royal I send them a pointer to its yelp page. To get to this page in Google, I need to type “siam royal yelp”. With Infoaxe all I need to type is “siam” !!
Search for Siam Royal
Here, there is again a savings of ~67%. These savings add up very fast…
This is our challenge for Infoaxe users. Be Lazy! The next time you search on Google to get to a page you know you’ve visited before, query with RIDICULOUSLY fewer words. We’ll find it! Let us do the work for you.
If we don’t find it now, let us know. We are constantly tuning our ranking algorithms and your feedback is very important to us.
Infoaxe has ranking algorithms tuned for Web Memory search, these are different from a tradional Web Search Engine which cannot be as aggressive with personalization for obvious reasons. General Web Search is a one size fits all for the most part (with some exceptions), and that works best in many cases. Infoaxe is your Personal Web’s Search Engine. So, be lazy & try querying with fewer words…we dare you!
Infoaxe – Your Personal Web Memory. No more bookmarking!
Infoaxe (http://www.infoaxe.com), is a Personal Browsing History Search Engine. With Infoaxe every page that you visit on the Internet gets added to a collection called your Personal Web Memory and infoaxe makes this collection, searchable across all the computers you use. Thanks to Infoaxe, there is no need to ever bookmark a page again. It makes getting back to web pages seen in the past (like videos, news articles etc) extremely fast and easy. Infoaxe also lets you ‘pivot’ around web pages seen in the past to see other pages that you visited at the same time. Tagging and sharing pages from your web memory with your friends is also very convenient with Infoaxe.
We have been receiving rave reviews from our existing users and hope you find Infoaxe compelling as well and join the growing number of happy Infoaxe users!
Why Infoaxe?
The Infoaxe story began when Vijay and I were graduate students in Computer Science at Stanford, as a result of the increasing problem we faced, of being able to keep track of interesting and useful information on the Web. The Web is growing rapidly and it is rapidly outgrowing the tools we are using to keep track of the Web (bookmarks, emailing links to yourself etc). Infoaxe is the next big step in this regard. We wanted to make it extremely easy for web users to keep track of their personal slice of the Web.
What is Infoaxe?
Infoaxe is a search engine for your web memory.
Every page that you see on the Web gets added to your personal Web Memory and is now searchable.
Your Web memory is private to you and portable (can be accessed across any computer that you use).
You never have to bookmark a page again!
(everything gets implicitly bookmarked and becomes searchable)
What should I do to get started?
V. Simple. Sign up for Infoaxe and install the infoaxe toolbar. The toolbar sends the urls to be added to
your personal web memory so its necessary to install the toolbar on all computers you use.
Go to http://www.infoaxe.com and watch the quick demo video. Check out the FAQ as well, which should answer most
of your questions.
Here are some cool things you can do with your Web Memory at your finger tips,
* Your web history synchronized, searchable and portable across all computers and browsers you use. Take it wherever you go!
* Pivot on events: Say, you wanted to look at all the websites you looked at when you were researching grad schools many months ago. This sounds almost impossible to accomplish with a general Web Search Engine like Google. The right query is quite hard in this case since there likely isn’t one single query which will give you all the pages. You might have looked at other grad schools like MIT, CMU etc, tips for writing good grad school essays etc. infoaxe helps you here by letting you pivot around a Web page in your Web Memory. Think of this as something like time travel. You can ask infoaxe to show you all the web pages you were looking at when you were looking at the Stanford University Graduate Admissions home page. We think its more natural to remember events than dates, and pivot lets you pivot around events in your Web Memory.
* Many of our users tell us that thanks to infoaxe, their search queries to Google have become a lot shorter. For eg. these days to go to the website of the restaurant Siam Royal in Palo Alto, I no longer need to type ” siam royal palo alto” to Google. I just type “siam royal”.(That’s a lie, I actually just type “siam” )With of our convenient Google widget, searching on Google.com displays infoaxe web memory results on the vacant right column of the Google search results page.
* Here is another example, Mary is hunting for apartments in Palo Alto. She has looked at many apartments on craigslist and rent.com. She is finding it impossible to keep track of the ones she liked. Bookmarking seems like a lot of work for so many pages and an overkill since she is sure that after this week she wouldn’t really be looking at these apartments again. Mary does not have to bookmark anything. If she wanted to revisit all the apartments she looked at on University Avenue, she could just search infoaxe with the query ‘university avenue’.
* Tagging – add labels to saved web pages to help organize them better.
Again, Check out our FAQ for answers to more questions.
Infoaxe is still very young and we have many more exciting features in the offing that we will be releasing over the next couple of months. So sign up, download the infoaxe toolbar and we hope you find it useful!
If you like Infoaxe, do tell your friends about it! You can also become a fan of Infoaxe on facebook (search for infoaxe on facebook and join the growing infoaxe community).
The Big Picture: The Infoaxe Vision
In a user’s Web Memory there is enormous knowledge and experience, very similar to what you would find with an avid book reader. Infoaxe connects a user with her Web Memory so that she can better reuse and tap into her Web experience. Think of it as your very own Bookcase for the Web where you have access to a copy of every page that you ever saw on the Web.
We also believe that if we connect you to your Web Memory and allow you to derive value from it, there is also an interesting side effect which is that your friends benefit!
Here is an example:
Ann: Hey do you think I should get the iPhone or the Google Phone?
Mark: Hmmm…tough call..but hey I remember this great review that I read a while back which compared the two and gave some great insights..
Ann: Do you think you can dig up that review again?
Mark: No prob…I use Infoaxe!! I can refind it
in no time from my Web Memory.
