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Bil Hansen

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Dec 14, 2004, 8:31:02 AM12/14/04
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The Accoona search engine (http://www.accoona.com/) is running, boasting of
its artificial intelligence and its SuperTarget searches, but that's
probably not news to most.

Some of its features are mildly amusing. Accoona.com is quite commercially
oriented. It offers, for example, three modes of search: View All (you get
sponsored links, Accoona results, and web results), Web (you get much the
same result!) and Business Profiles.

Business Profiles offers a little fun. Search for, say, Barfko Swill in
Business Profile mode. Result is a bunch of URLs which all seem to be owned
by the ZFT, all 4 pages of them (www.3834zappafrank.com? www.aaafnraa.com?
yup, all there).

Then click on the [infinity sign INFO] box beside one of the them and find
out about a company called ICA (?Inter Continental Absurdities?), with
Barbara Monderine as the contact person, Sales Volume in the US$25-75
million range, and employees in the 20-49 range.

Cheers

Bil
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Bil Hansen
Sungai Nibong, Malaysia

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