Thursday 24 November 2011

Trap your search results with Trapit - A Sibling Technology of Siri

As Siri has been sensational with its AI ,A sibling technology of Siri 'Trapit' - a seach and web content aggregator has opened up offering  new search experience to users.Trapit uses same AI technology behind Apple's Siri to let users have magic experience over Web search.


Trapit evolved out of the five-year CALO project , or Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes, which is the largest artificial intelligence program in U.S. history. The $200 million project was co-produced  by SRI Ventures and the Department of Defense's innovation arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.

Users can type in a keyword ,phrase or URL and Trapit will find real time information including news articles ,blog posts pages that may be related.Users can save those results as 'trap' ,which will  constantly comb the web for more relevant content.Over time ,Trapit will improve search recommendation as users provide feedback to the search engine.
 Trapit’s list of  sources now includes roughly 100,000 sites from across the Web, and the service continues to add more sources every week.

“We’re starting with our own web app, but the opportunity here is much bigger, this is about the next evolution of web discovery in a post-search world. We expect to power sites and services across the web. The web has gotten way too big for a one-size-fits-all solution; no one likes to think of themselves as ‘the crowd.’ All web services are going to need personalization.”said Gary Griffiths, CEO and co-founder of Trapit.

Trapit can find the stuff users don’t want to miss by scouring the web,organizing the best, most relevant content into individual topic-based “traps” for easy consumption.Trapit is available to public beta.You can sign  up at  http://trap.it

              " Your search is over - with Trapit, the web comes to you. "

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