Oculus looks to improve VR app discovery with content-based search
Oculus will roll out content-based app search for Gear VR and options for developers to promote app events, announcements.
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IAC buying Angie’s List, will combine with HomeAdvisor into new public company
The two companies will create a home services lead-gen powerhouse.
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DMCA Takedown Database ChillingEffects.org Takes Itself Out Of Search Results
The irony here is almost too obvious to mention: an entity dedicated to monitoring the potential “chilling effects” of DMCA takedown notices is censoring itself. Chillingeffects.org has now removed itself from search results, making those notices harder to find. Chillingeffects.org was…
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Yahoo Says Goodbye, ZEEF Says Hello
Human-curated directories have long been a staple of the internet, but ultimately they’re very hard to scale. See how newcomer ZEEF hopes to tackle this challenge.
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Expect Labs Offers Free API: Google Now In A Box
Expect Labs, which is behind the MindMeld consumer application, has announced a new developer API. The new API brings the company’s ”anticipatory computing” platform to third parties in the cloud. Use of the API is free. Expect Labs is trying to get it “out there” and…
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KitchMe Launches Recipe Search Engine For Google Glass
KitchMe, a recipe and meal-planning website recently acquired by Coupons.com, has launched what appears to be the first recipe search engine and cooking assistant app for Google Glass. The app is free and currently available at kitchme.com/googleglass….
Samsung, Intel Invest In “Anticipatory Search” Startup Expect Labs
Expect Labs, which is a small startup in the San Francisco Bay Area, has a very impressive list of investors. Today the company announced a new funding round, though the figures weren’t disclosed. Investors are the venture or investment arms of Intel, Samsung and Telefonica. Telefonica is the…
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Search Engine Designed By Denmark Researchers Helps Medics Diagnose Rare Diseases
Technical University of Denmark researchers have designed a search engine that indexes specific sets of databases to help identify rare diseases. Users can query patient symptoms on FindZebra.com which crawls over 31,000 medical articles focused on rar…