Carrot2 and meX Search

Carrot2 is an open source framework for building search clustering engines.
[Features]
[Algorithms]

meX Search is an application of Carrot2. meX provides a new look and feel of search engines.

Compared to traditional search engines, meX is visualized. meX starts from a search box as usual. However, results are categorized and presented to users as a graph, bubbles connected to the starting search box. Each bubble, representing one category, may contain one or more results with hyper links. Once a category is clicked, a new search start with the name of the category as the keyword.

meX takes Flash as a way for presenting the results, which means that a plugin is necessary. It should not be a problem (except that you are a member of ...) as flash is widely used on Internet. By the way, Wallop is another good example of flash applications.

VIM

j down
k up
l right
h left
i insert
a append
w word
b back word
ZZ save and quit
g go
gg go to very beginning
G go to end
/ search
? rewind search
o add a line
dd delete a line
^ front none blank
0 front
$ end
\ word interval
u undo

TO BE CONTINUED

Prediction

What will this web page look like in ten years?

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Language Recognition

Here, language recognition refers to distinguishing English from Spanish, etc..

Recognition of Languages seems not a big deal, but why should many translating tools asking users to select the languages.

Online translation websites like Babel Fish and Google Translate both have a language selection box.

One solution, which is quite straight forward, is to recognize the words or characters of different languages. Those words with a high frequency are very good clues. Different encoding also helps recognize languages.