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...
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 query.
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 can export it to several...
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 sharing, …
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 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 from these sources. Seeks records...
