NationMaster

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.

Qwika

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

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.

AskTheBrain

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.