Volun, the Italian search engine that goes to attack Google
The tom-toms on the Net is still low but the volume is rising .Especially after Massimo Marchiori participated - a real star - the Roman festival for the 20 years of the Web . The mathematician of Padua - known as "the inventor of the algorithm of Google "( here's the story told by him ) - is launching a new online search engine: Volun, an all-Italian project that you can already start out at this link .
Marchiori says: "With the engine Volun give discomfort to Google."You think you can?
- Yes, the Italian mathematician knows at the bottom of the web and semantic search is the novelty of the future (56%, 2,093 Votes)
- No, the Big G is now a reality too closely tied to the surfing habits in order to be replaced (even partially) (44%, 1,637 Votes)
Total Voters: 3,730
Meanwhile, the name, behind which there is an investor-Mariano Pireddu adventure Marchiori - Sardinian businessman who in 2001 founded Voljatel, Slovenian telecommunications company. "And then little else: the name sounds good," he said Marchiori. "And then the roots of" flight "and" moon ": our desire to fly really high, to reach an ambitious goal and dream." Then there's the effort, and pride, to do something big in Italy. "Had we been abroad, we might be able to go online a year before." But past the bureaucratic difficulties, remains the greatest happiness of a project born and raised in our country. Italian capital, developers mostly grown at the University of Padua. "My former students, all members of the company in various capacities." With an operational basis in fact in the Venetian city. And the servers in Sardinia.
The new search engine, and not for time reasons but just as novel to explore the Web, will start within the first two weeks of December ("definitely before the end of the year, because we want to go online in the year of 150 Anniversary of our country ") in twelve languages. Massimo Marchiori studied for years the semantic network, an approach to the amount of meaningful information in the next Net revolution Why this is, after that of Google Page Rank at the end of the nineties right on cue Hyper Search by Marchiori. Bing Microsoft has tried to improve the results of research data from the Big G while remaining on the same line as the Mountain View giant. And it allowed them to move the mass needed to really annoy Google.
Now comes something new really from Italy . "But more when I can not say, really ... I apologize," Massimo Marchiori is not only a great scholar, is also a great person. "The beta is strictly by invitation and they will come just a week before starting in earnest. The fact is that a reality as Google, for example, there's nothing to put 100 engineers to work day and night on our idea and go out before us. " A prudence which leaves really think the fact that the project aims at raising Volun-up: "Look, I tend to be realistic. And I answer sincerely: had I not thought it was a big thing, able to compete with the big names of online search, I would never put there. " The basic idea is very simple, totally different from the idea of the current search engines: "If Google uses the club, here we will work with the foil. Emerge due to the difference of our system. And why Volun be really useful to people. "
The engine is finished, as I said after 3 years of hard work - "It 'was a commitment crazy ...." - now it is just reaching the critical mass of testers selected in different countries (between 50 and 100 000), make sure that everything goes well, the system will react correctly in all languages and supports the physical impact of user requests. Then go online Volun. And maybe then the Web may not be the same again. And so Italy's role in the digital economy. Thanks to Massimo Marchiori, the mathematician who in 1996 gave way to that which still is the greatest phenomenon that the Net has ever known.Warehouse. "But the idea of revenge, I was never even mentioned," laughs Marchiori. "Really. The reality is that this idea is so beautiful that it would be a shame not being able to do it. And realize now is the right time. "
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