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Thursday, January 08, 2004  

Grokker May Trump Google In Opening Up the Invisible Web
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,563090,00.html

Had any good "info-revelations" lately? A re-tooled software application called Grokker may be just the ticket for an infusion of serendipitous little wonders. Grokker (available at Groxis.com) takes the raw output of a query and organizes it (via visual representation) into categories and subcategories. When you type in, say, "nanotechnology," Grokker sifts through data from multiple search engines and you initially see a big circle, within which are smaller subset circles with such labels as "molecular," "conference," "technology," "science" and "research." It even includes a category circle on "children's books." Click on "molecular," and that circle enlarges so you can see several further subcircles, one of which is "molecular assemblies." Click on that, and another category -- "molecular assembly sequencing software" -- shows up. Groxis CEO R.J. Pittman says Grokker promises to crack open some mysteries of the Web: "Google has indexed several billion pages, but there are between 550 and 600 billion in total on what's referred to as the invisible Web or deep Web. Within a year Grokker will have ten times the reach of Google in terms of available Web pages." The Los Angeles and Chicago school districts have taken trial licenses for their students.

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