Brainboost
Encyclopedia
Brainboost is a metasearch engine
designed to provide specific answers to questions asked in natural language. Currently it only supports English. The Brainboost engine uses machine learning
and natural language processing
AI techniques to answer the questions.
Traditional engines return the links to the pages that appear most relevant. Additionally the results page may include a summary of the page. The user then needs to download the pages and read them to see if the answer to his question is in fact there. Brainboost, however, generates a number of different queries that it submits to traditional search engines, downloads several hundred pages returned by the search engines, reads the pages and isolates the answers in the text of these pages, and ranks the different answers based on its AnswerRank algorithm.
The engine is best suited to relatively common questions that might have been already discussed somewhere on the Web in one form or another.
In December 2005, Brainboost was acquired by Answers Corporation.
Metasearch engine
A metasearch engine is a search tool that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and aggregates the results into a single list or displays them according to their source. Metasearch engines enable users to enter search criteria once and access several search engines...
designed to provide specific answers to questions asked in natural language. Currently it only supports English. The Brainboost engine uses machine learning
Machine learning
Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a scientific discipline concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data, such as from sensor data or databases...
and natural language processing
Natural language processing
Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....
AI techniques to answer the questions.
Traditional engines return the links to the pages that appear most relevant. Additionally the results page may include a summary of the page. The user then needs to download the pages and read them to see if the answer to his question is in fact there. Brainboost, however, generates a number of different queries that it submits to traditional search engines, downloads several hundred pages returned by the search engines, reads the pages and isolates the answers in the text of these pages, and ranks the different answers based on its AnswerRank algorithm.
The engine is best suited to relatively common questions that might have been already discussed somewhere on the Web in one form or another.
In December 2005, Brainboost was acquired by Answers Corporation.