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NationMaster is the world's largest online database of statistical comparisons between countries. Our system uses an automated, purpose-built search engine to collect country comparison statistics on the internet on an extremely broad scale. Human operators ensure that the statistics are reliable and appropriate. Our system then compiles the data and presents it to the user in a wide variety of forms, including graphs, maps, scatterplots and pie charts. In this way, we can build, maintain, and present a huge database in an exciting and intelligible fashion with a minimum of human labour. NationMaster has been featured in The New York Times, CNN and BBC and is recommended by the Harvard Business School and the American Library Association.
NationMaster technology can be adapted to any topic domain. This allowed us to easily create StateMaster, a comparative database for US states.
The 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.
FactBites is an encyclopedia / search engine hybrid that provides complete, meaningful sentences on the search topic as an integral part of the search results. Its uniquely sophisticated web mining and computational linguistic techniques allow it to isolate informative sentences relevant to the search topic, even if they do not contain the search terms. As well as being a powerful tool for separating factual, relevant text from the rest of the web, the system allows the refinement of search results by detecting and suggesting relevant filter categories. Although released in Beta version only recently (March 2005), FactBites has already received favourable mentions in BusinessWeek, SearchEngineJournal and the American Press Institute's Journalist's Toolbox.
UltimateJudgment is a satirical site that allows users to rate well-known people, concepts, and objects as either "Good" or "Evil". One of the "punchiest" and most direct sites on the net, UltimateJudgment puts puts a fun and ironic spin on the rashness of judgements that polarise the world into good and evil.
AskTheBrain is the world's first and largest computer generated satire site. It uses computational linguistics and web mining technology to put amusing automated discussions of a vast array of subjects into the mouths of a panel of stereotypical "experts". Light-hearted and amusing, AskTheBrain shows how the immense power of computational linguistics can be put to absolutely frivolous use.
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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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