Bill Clinton & the Chinese Government bring you the new "Google Killer"

[gsaldivar]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6666890/


NEW YORK - Former president Bill Clinton on Monday helped launch a new Internet search company backed by the Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google Inc.

"I hope you all make lots of money," Clinton told executives at the launch of Accoona Corp., which donated an undisclosed amount to the William J. Clinton Foundation.

The Chinese government, one of several large backers, has granted Accoona a 20-year exclusive partnership with the China Daily Information Co., the government agency that runs an official Chinese and English Web site.

The deal gives Accoona data on some 5 million Chinese companies, which Accoona sees as a lucrative opportunity as U.S. businesses seek to do business in China ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

The new company's executives include chairman Eckhard Pfeiffer, the former chief executive of Compaq Corp., and Stuart Kauder, a former business development director at online advertising company DoubleClick Inc.

Accoona takes its name from the Swahili phrase, "accoona matata," for "no worries," popularized by Disney's film, "The Lion King."

The company seeks to distinguish itself from Google, Yahoo Inc. and growing list of other search engine players by using artificial intelligence to make the results more relevant, said Pfeiffer. Unlike traditional search engines that seek specific "keyword" matches, Accoona will access Web pages that may have no exact keyword matches but are still relevant to the query, he explained.

"Accoona's artificial intelligence technology will elevate search engine performance to a new unprecedented level, allowing the most relevant search available today," Pfeiffer said.

 

[burnedout]

Unsurprisingly, this puff piece rants and raves about "produce better results than Google Inc", "unprecedented level", etc. Yet no mention is made of Chinese internet censorship.

 

[imported_Condor]

Clinton and his long term partnership with Chinese money is one major reason that almost everything purchased in the US says "Made in China". Also a very large force behind the offshoring of much of our industry. It is good that it is finally showing up in the MSM.

 

[Stunt]

Originally posted by: Condor
Clinton and his long term partnership with Chinese money is one major reason that almost everything purchased in the US says "Made in China". Also a very large force behind the offshoring of much of our industry. It is good that it is finally showing up in the MSM.

Actually it has accelerated under Bush as democrats are more protectionist...the rate of outsourcing has gone up drastically more recently.

Agreed that Clinton didn't stop it...or make a huge fuss over it.

 

[Dissipate]

Originally posted by: Condor
Clinton and his long term partnership with Chinese money is one major reason that almost everything purchased in the US says "Made in China". Also a very large force behind the offshoring of much of our industry. It is good that it is finally showing up in the MSM.

Offshoring is great. Offshoring allows firms to escape all the regulatory and union B.S. that they have to put up with back home. Want to end offshoring? Get rid of all the labor and union laws, and all the other red tape.

 

[yllus]

Sounds like a very interesting search engine.

The Chinese government, one of several large backers, has granted Accoona a 20-year exclusive partnership with the China Daily Information Co., the government agency that runs an official Chinese and English Web site.

Sort of overexaggerating the weight of the Chinese gov't, aren't you? The US gov't has silently funded many companies in the past and nobody speaks up in alarm over that.

 

[Genx87]

Former president Bill Clinton on Monday helped launch a new Internet search company backed by the Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google Inc.

Gee you dont say!

What next, chinese missiles given a final blessing by Billy before they are pointed at San Francisco?

The more I think about Bill Clintons legacy. The more I wonder how people were blinded by a good economy.

 

[JacobJ]

if you look at the actual search results...
its pretty bad...irrelevent and spam ridden...

a long way to go to even get close to competing with google...

google, btw, probably already uses a technology that doesn't require the 'actual keyword'...whethe or not it is used in the main search results is of course secret.

 

[daveshel]

The William J. Clinton Foundation - I wonder what they do (other than have a lot of interns).

 

[Sysbuilder05]

Originally posted by: daveshel
The William J. Clinton Foundation - I wonder what they do (other than have a lot of interns).

I'll look up all that benifit from his foundation. I'm going to guess it is people that really need the help instead of assholes like Limbaugh,O'Reilly etc... who get millions off of tax cuts paid for by the working class courtesy of the Smirk Foundation.

 

[eigen]

Artificial Intel== over-used buzzword.

 

[JackStorm]

backed by the Chinese government

I don't know about the rest of you, but that was all I needed to know, to deside to stay the fuvk away from it. The Chinese Government is WELL known for mass censoring stuff. No way I'd ever support a search engine made by or backed by people who support the kind of mass censorship the Chinese Government does.

 

[SuperTool]

Originally posted by: Genx87

Former president Bill Clinton on Monday helped launch a new Internet search company backed by the Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google Inc.

Gee you dont say!

What next, chinese missiles given a final blessing by Billy before they are pointed at San Francisco?

The more I think about Bill Clintons legacy. The more I wonder how people were blinded by a good economy.

Yeah, how dare they think about their own self interest instead of the neverending Republican ranting. :roll:

 

[SuperTool]

Originally posted by: Condor
Clinton and his long term partnership with Chinese money is one major reason that almost everything purchased in the US says "Made in China". Also a very large force behind the offshoring of much of our industry. It is good that it is finally showing up in the MSM.

The reason it says made in China is that it's cheaper to make them in China. Unless Clinton went to China and fathered a billion qualified cheap employees, you can't really blame him for that.