Europa's antwoord op Google

De universiteit van Glasgow verspreidt het bericht dat haar onderzoekers een zoekmachine hebben ontwikkeld die de concurrentie aankan met Google. Terrier (Terabyte Retriever), de naam van deze machine, is al 3 jaar in ontwikkeling met geld van EPSRC. Het schijnt al in gebruik te zijn op de intranets van verschillende Europese instellingen. Professor Keith van Rijsbergen, hoofd van de information retrieval groep vertelt over Terrier in Research Information: [quote]"Terrier is a better engine than Google, if you measure it, but it not so much better that people are going to say forget about Google and start using Terrier"[...]"Google gives a kind of universal feedback from the connectivity of the web. But you don't always want the most popular site. Some very important work is often very badly connected to the outside world, and people want to find it. The feedback I am talking about is personalised. What guidance does Google give you on changing your query? One of our aims is to build systems that incorporate relevance feedback."[/quote] In de Terrier Wiki is meer informatie te vinden maar die is nogal geeky. Terrier is open source software. Versie 1.01 is hier te downloaden.