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About Rapid Intelligence
Rapid Intelligence Pty Ltd is the brainchild of Luke Metcalfe, a web publisher and web mining expert based in Sydney, Australia. Our flagship site NationMaster was launched in January 2003. At that time, it was a collection of around two hundred statistics together with the tools to graph and compare them, compiled and built by Luke himself. By 2004 NationMaster had grown to become the world's largest online database of statistical comparisons between countries, and had attracted enthusiastic reviews from such sources as CNN, The New York Times, and the BBC.
Global Reach
Our international focus makes us well suited to the new global economy. From its humble beginnings in Sydney, Australia, Rapid Intelligence has grown to employ staff in Asia, Europe, and both North and Central America. The professionals who make up our team are drawn from areas as diverse as economics, literature, and linguistics as well as information technology. Our second major site, FactBites - a search engine/encyclopedia hybrid - has become a recognised alternative to Google for encyclopedia-style searches, gaining favourable mentions in BusinessWeek and SearchEngineJournal.
Today
Rapid Intelligence continues to grow and develop. As our name suggests, we value responsiveness and adaptability as the keys to success in a changing technological environment. We employ intelligent and versatile IT professionals from a wide range of cultural backgrounds, whilst approaching business with an informal and personal attitude reflective of our Australian origins.
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Press Releases
StateMaster launches today
11 APR 2006
StateMaster, a state comparison site and free educational resource, has been launched today, giving the general public an easy-to-use database which compares US
states on several thousand stats. More »
Qwika Released!
17 FEB 2006
Rapid Intelligence has today released a beta of Qwika.com, a wiki search engine. The technology is designed from the
ground up to work with wiki-based content and has number of unique features of interest to researchers and Wikipedia editors. It is the only search engine to index
machine translated content, so that users may search for terms in their own language and see results translated from English. More »
NationMaster's Correlations tool is free!
5 NOV 2005
NationMaster.com, the world's largest online statistical database for country comparisons, has today announced free
access to their correlation tools. This service allows the user to compare any two statistics (out of a database of over 5,700) in order to shed new light on
information highly-useful to journalists, writers, professors and the general public.More »
FactBites Released!
14 MAR 2005
What do you get if you cross a search engine with an encyclopedia? The answer just arrived on the net - Factbites,
a new approach to search. Under the slogan "where results make sense", Factbites provides searchers with full sentences about their search topic, rather than the
sentence fragments most search engines offer. More »
Additional NationMaster Reviews:Nielsen//NetRatings sees NationMaster as one of the Top 10 Fastest Growing Educational Reference Sites. Note: this is a PDF file. If you do not have a PDF Reader, please click here for a free download.
Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade rolls out their list of Internet Gems: NationMaster.
AskMen.com rates NationMaster Best & Coolest Sites Around.
Dry Facts Transformed into Entertainment, a review of NationMaster by the Christian Science Monitor.
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