Russian Search Engine Yandex Gets A Semantic Injection

Wednesday, 15 December 2010 13:57

Russian Search Engine Yandex Gets A Semantic Injection

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Yandex, Russia's leading search engine which is thought to be mulling over an IPO for up to $1.5 billion, is rolling out a new feature today that aims to make its search experience seem a lot more intelligent. Dubbed "Spectrum" and claiming to be able to read users' minds, it uses what sounds like a

combination of semantic technology and machine learning to "infer implicit queries and return matching search results." In other words, Spectrum is able to make better sense of the meaning of searches based on its own classification system. It's based on what Yandex describes as query statistics: