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January 04, 2008

Prof. Meng's Company Released News Metasearch Engine

Webscalers, a company co-founded by Computer Science Professor Weiyi Meng who serves as its President, released to the public a news metasearch engine called AllInOneNews in August 2007. AllInOneNews connects to over 1,800 news sources in more than 200 countries and regions. The ability to connect with many search engines simultaneously enables AllInOneNews to provide the timeliest information possible. AllInOneNews also performs "semantic search," meaning that it looks not only for keywords, but also for subject matter closely related to the original query.

AllInOneNews grew out of a research project sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Later, NSF's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program provided funds for Phase I and II of the project. Prof. Meng is a leading researcher in large-scale metasearch technology. A PR Newswire Item contains more information about the release.

Posted by jdixon at January 4, 2008 03:58 PM