One clarification on the post above: Book of Odds is, in fact, not a semantic search engine at all. We do not crawl the web and parse data in real time. Rather, we have a staff of researchers who meticulously vet the data behind the scenes. Once computations have been made the resulting data is then loaded into our ontologies and back-end semantic database (built by Cambridge Semantics) – which is used for organizational efficiencies. It is a subtle point, but an important one: Every data-point that goes into our production process (and there are millions) is evaluated by a human researcher (and much data is thrown out due to methodological issues!), so users can be confident that we are presenting only the best data we could obtain. Keep in mind we’re still in beta and will be fine-tuning our search for as long as we’re in operation – to date, we’ve only loaded about half the content we will have on launch (mid-October) and new content is being created every day, so search results should continually improve.

Thanks again and I hope you’re enjoying the beta!