Comments on: Fooky Tests AI Search

By: Billy The Kid

Billy The Kid — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:23:02 +0000

Wow, this are all the unpublished features of Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask in a nice web 2.0 package and advertised as “AI”. Where do I send my VC investment check?

By: Paul Watson

Paul Watson — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:32:15 +0000

Well being an optimist, and seeing it has been in dev since 1995, I look forward to our new overlord, FOOKY. Seriously though, if it does what it says on the box then it is going to be great. Google has commands but they are hard-coded I imagine, not AI learnt.

By: Evlin

Evlin — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:38:13 +0000

Looks very impressive. From what I read I am anxious to check out the AI.

By: Texas Venture Capital Blog » Blog Archive » Fooky AI Search for Web 2.0

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:05:07 +0000

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By: Alexander Muse

Alexander Muse — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:47:31 +0000

I actually like the logo. I have no idea if I will ever visit the site, much less use the service – but I am going to reblog this just to get the pretty logo on my front page for a day or two. Thanks!

By: dextre

dextre — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:20:40 +0000

oops. did i blurt that out loud? i’m sorry.

By: dextre

dextre — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:18:31 +0000

the spelling. the colors. how original. they’re trying too hard NOT to immitate google.

and can you get used to using it as a verb like “google”: “gooky up that piece of information”? it sounds racist too.

By: Andrew Lampert

Andrew Lampert — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:43:20 +0000

An honest question: why would people want their search engine to be their ‘artificial friend’?? What’s the motivation for including chatterbot interaction in a search engine? Presumably there must be something more to it?