"Entrepreneur": Search your words!

Gossip fans note: Now gossip Entertainment has a specialized tool! Do you know what kind of news has Faye Wong recently? Do you know the people and things that are closest to "diva"? Do you want to know what other people are most concerned about her now? A year ago?　　Two years ago? Login Search Word (http://www.sosoci.com), searching for "Faye Wong" The answer is all out.　　Search word is a product of the word network technology, of course, its use can not only be limited to entertainment gossip, as China's only six-degree space word Relationship website, people's slogan is "word and word sns, so that the search is simpler." How to make the search simpler?　　This is the word network Technology founder Zhang has been thinking of the problem. Zhang is engaged in natural language research in Microsoft before venturing into business. As a technical expert, he knows that the data collection of Google and Baidu is based on statistical algorithms, it takes some time for people to promote and collect, which brings the lag of information update. Semantic search based on natural language can find the association between words and words, words and sentences, words and text according to the habit of speaking, which makes the search more fine. And because language usage habits are constantly changing, the results of the search will change accordingly. "This must be the future of the search engine!"　　"In 2005, Zhang to Microsoft to submit his resignation, then founder of the Word Network technology, embarked on the road to entrepreneurship." The first product of the word net technology operation is "cool" (http://www.jukuu.com/), Zhang describes it as "a special search of Google for examples". Cool and other online translation site is different, it is all based on the sentence, but not the emphasis on grammar and words. At the same time, with the help of the semantic search technology, the backstage will grasp the dynamic change of the language according to the change of language habit.　　A cool 10 million-sentence database, which makes it the world's largest bilingual example website. The search term mentioned above is another product of word net technology. Compared with the traditional search engine, search words appear more "smart". For example, users want to find "who bought IBM", the general search engine only identified "acquisition" and "IBM" two keywords, search results show that a large number of IBM acquisitions companies. If you enter more complex questions, such as "who did IBM acquire in 1996?" "Search based on keywords will be helpless."　　and based on natural language search words, but can accurately understand that the user to find the acquisition of IBM companies, the final display of search results are mainly "Lenovo" and "At&t." From 2005 venture to 2008, although the Word Network technology products and technology is maturing, but let Zhang worry is that the company has not been profitable.　　Zhang even had to put out his savings to pay his employees. In early 2008, Zhang Company began to undertake vertical search business, successively for Beijing Mobile, CSDN and other websites do site search. Although we know that this field is competitive and the space for future development is limited,At that time the company's business model was not very clear. Just then, there was an explosion in the semantic search industry. The Powerset company, founded by Barney Pell, an American natural language technology expert, was bought by Microsoft at a price of 100 million dollars.　　Word Network technology and powerset are the same semantic search field, Powerset victory undoubtedly for Zhang and its team played a stimulant, the industry also began to pay attention to this area, the word network technology became the first to enter their view of the company. Search words by Sina Entertainment channel Fancy, Sina wants to apply interpersonal search technology to entertainment gossip to increase user viscosity. The word cool has also won the bid for translation teaching and research of Beijing second foreign Language College project for the construction of information data base, Zhang and his team are further designing and developing software based on teaching and learning requirements. Once the project succeeds, the Word network is the first company to do translation teaching platform in China, and Zhang and his team will not have to worry about survival in the short term.