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As noticed by many, activity has been reduced on the Seeks Project over the last 6 months. I’ve personnally been busy elsewhere, building some cool projects with others. Today as seen some long due fixes and maintenance the http://www.seeks-project.info/search.php and http://www.seeks-project.info/search_exp.php are back some fixes and patches on the ‘experimental’ branch. More than ever, help...
We wish to improve seeks.fr
This is a summarized version of a French post. Traffic on seeks.fr has increased to the point that we face two problems: * we get throttled down by Google (that we use in the background); * we do not comply with the TOS of underlying search engines such as Google that prevent third parties to...
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...
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...
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 dit merci aux Hackweeks et à l’Epplug de Amiens
L’association eeplug organisait toute la semaine dernière les hackweeks, une semaine de code tous frais payés pour les développeurs de quatre projets préalablement sélectionnés. Seeks avait l’honneur d’être l’un d’entre eux. Merci aux autres projets et à leurs participants pour les bonnes intéractions et rigolades, merci à Domogik donc, Nobjet et Dolibarr. Un grand merci...
Quick search on a seek node from an android phone.
This weeks, EPPLUG an association for the defense and promotion of free software, and llocated in Amiens, France, organized a great devcamp called HACKWEEKS. Four projects were selected. 5 Seeks developers has been invited at Amiens, for 7 days of full time work on seeks. One ticket was to hack an Android Widget to issue...
ARM Seeks Debian package, tested on SheevaPlug
Sileht, one of Seeks contributors has successfully built a Seeks package for ARM devices. It has been reported to work fine on SheevaPlug. The package is for Debian and can be fetched here If you are interested using Seeks on SheevalPlugs and experiencing problems (e.g. with the package above, get in touch. We pay special...
Learning how to take advantage of most higlighted discrimant terms in search results
Most often unconsciously, most searchers look for the most discriminant keywords when crafting their queries to a search engine. Surprisingly, this job of finding most discriminant words in a collection of documents is easily done by machines. For this reason, Seeks highlights the most discriminant terms within search results. These words appear in blue in...
Personalization of results in upcoming Seeks 0.3
Releases version 0.3.x of Seeks, due for early October will introduce personalized results. There are many ways to personalize results and major search engines already do it. This article from a few years back is a good introduction to the different types of personalization. Roughly, personalization uses your past or current behavior to predict, recommend...
