An Open Decentralized Platform for Collaborative Search, Filtering and content Curation

Peer-to-Peer

Peer-to-Peer

Seeks implements a decentralized Peer-to-Peer architecture: install Seeks on your machine, server or laptop, and automatically start sharing results. While users share queries over the Peer-to-Peer network, Seeks protects your privacy by sending encrypted query fragments to peers. This scheme makes it difficult for other peers to devise your initial...
Personal Expertise and Profiles

Personal Expertise and Profiles

Using Seeks on your machine, it builds a personal profile for you, based on your queries, result selection, and Web navigation. This profile is stored locally on your machine, for your own use. The profile is used by Seeks to filter your feeds and results and make recommendations. Though you...
Collaborative Search

Collaborative Search

Seeks regroups users who perform similar queries so they can passively collaborate on the results. At this stage, collaboration is semi-passive: user clicks affect other users’ results on similar queries, and every user can reject recommendations and results. More active collaboration will emerge, through comments, chats, user to user result...
Meta-engine / Meta-sources

Meta-engine / Meta-sources

Seeks works on top of data feeds and search engines, such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Blekko, Youtube, Dailymotion, Wikipedia, Dokuwiki, OpenSearch, RSS, ATOM,… It detects and fuses similar results, and ranks them. In proxy mode, Seeks can see your Web navigation and recommend results accordingly.
Seeks in a nutshell

Seeks in a nutshell

Seeks acts as a personalizing Web server or proxy between you and your data feeds. Connect most search engines, RSS/ATOM feeds, Twitter / Identica, Youtube / Dailymotion, Wikis, and basically any source of data, and Seeks will produce a fused personalized batch / stream of results to your queries, coming...

Seeks is Free Software, and distributed under the AGPLv3 license. Through open code and data formats, Seeks allows you to regain control over your selection of results and to build a personnal profile you can share with others. This is your control over curation of any feed of textual and image data. Seeks is decentralized and lets users share through passive collaborative filtering.


11/21/2011: Current release is HIPPY-0.4: P2P collaborative filter on top of metasearch engine. Seeks also implements a websearch proxy and a mini Web server. Download now! Or Try it out!.

seeks.fr va s’améliorer

Seeks.fr sert quotidiennement un nombre toujours plus important d’utilisateurs. A ce stade il semble donc que certains d’entre vous apprécient le service rendu par le moteur. Les utilisateurs de Seeks.fr sont de deux types : les utilisateurs du site directement : environ 12000 requêtes par jour; les utilisateurs par l’intermédiaire du pair-à-pair (P2P) en utilisant...

Use Seeks to make pages more ‘readable’

A fresh addition to the set of existing Seeks plugins, is the so-called ‘readability’ functionality. Readability basically removes the clutter from webpages and in most cases, correctly grabs the true content of a webpage. Seeks now embeds a C implementation of the readability algorithm by Alberto Garcia. We turned into a plugin for Seeks. The...

What Freedom in websearch truely means

There’s been some highly welcome buzz around the release of Yacy 1.0, a P2P search engine. At Seeks, we know Yacy well, as well as its founder. We recognized the enormous amount of work that has been done around the project, as well as the pugnacity of its lead developper Michael Christen. However, Seeks would...

A Startup for the Seeks Project!

We are proud to announce a startup to support the Seeks Project! Read the full announcement on the company’s blog, A Startup for the Seeks Project.

Major Seeks release 0.4 is out!

Seeks develops an open decentralized architecture as well as Free Software applications for enable collaborative search on the Web and beyond (local networks). Seeks implements a Free Software collaborative search platform released under the AGPLv3 license. This platform makes it possible to build a number of applications, ranging from a simple meta-search engine to a...

How to use and benefit from a collaborative search ring

If you have installed Seeks with default configuration, or setup your own collaborative search ring, you’re ready to take advantage of it. There are basically two non-exclusive ways to use your Seeks collaborative search ring: The easiest way to collaborate is to simply use your Seeks instance as a regular Web search engine. This is...

Sharing by cross-posting selected search results

Seeks is all about setting up collaborative search rings. Within a ring you can get recommended results from others for every of you own queries, and you can let others get you results that you do recommend as well. Typically, clicking on search results will boost up the ranking of these results on similar queries...

How to setup a collaborative search ring with Seeks

Seeks lets you setup a peer-to-peer (P2P) ring of machines, each running Seeks, to enable decentralized collaborative websearch. By collaborative websearch, it is meant that queries and clicks on results on one machine will affect ranking and recommendations on other nodes as well. Of course this only occurs within the ring of machines you define....

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Current release is HIPPY: P2P collaborative filter on top of metasearch engine. Additionnally Seeks implements a websearch proxy.   Seeks runs on GNU/Linux and most of *BSD. There is no windows port yet. Stable HIPPY release v0.4.0 is available, adds new API for collaborative filtering and recommendation of results (11/21/2011), the ability to directly post...

How to setup a meta-search engine with Seeks

Besides its other functionalities, including P2P and collaborative search, Seeks implements a meta-search engine. By meta-search it is meant that besides using its own database, Seeks can query a number of sources. These sources come in several formats: search engines, such as Google, Bing, Blekko, Yahoo, Yauba, Exalead, specialized websites such as Youtube, Dailymotion,  Google...

Seeks wins an innovation award at OWF 2011

Seeks won an award last thursday at the Open World Forum Demo Cup. The results are yet to be announced, though the description of this friendly competition is on OWF website. The finalists were six companies, presenting six open source projects. Seeks came out second among the six, and snatched an award. This is good...

Seeks 0.3.5 is out

Seeks 0.3.5 is out. This release brings several improvements. The most notable one is a fix to a computational blowup that was occuring in P2P search collaborative filter. See the ChangeLog for more details. The release brings three new feed parsers in, a Delicious parser that is on by default, and a WordPress search and...