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.
04/03/2012: Current release is HIPPY-0.4.1: 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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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.
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Jun 28, 2011 • Comments Closed 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...
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Jun 28, 2011 • Comments Closed 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, …
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Jun 28, 2011 • Comments Closed 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.
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Jun 28, 2011 • Comments Closed 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...
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Nov 28, 2010 • 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...
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Nov 26, 2010 • Comments Closed 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...
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Oct 10, 2010 • Comments Closed 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...
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Oct 10, 2010 • Comments Closed 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...
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Sep 20, 2010 • Comments Closed This release mostly adds microblogging (Twitter, Identi.ca) and video (Youtube, Dailymotion) search and clustering of results. Thanks to Bram for working on all those parsers! This should be the last release for the meta-search engine. Next steps are personalized results, and passive collaboration over P2P, see our development roadmap
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Sep 12, 2010 • Comments Closed 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...
