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!.
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Dec 23, 2011 • 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...
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Dec 3, 2011 • 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...
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Nov 24, 2011 • Comments Closed 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.
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Nov 21, 2011 • Comments Closed 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...
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Nov 21, 2011 • 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...
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Nov 21, 2011 • Comments Closed 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...
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Nov 21, 2011 • 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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Oct 21, 2011 • Comments Closed 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...
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Oct 9, 2011 • Comments Closed 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...
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Sep 24, 2011 • Comments Closed 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...
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Aug 30, 2011 • Comments Closed 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...
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Jun 28, 2011 • Comments Closed 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 query.
