IBM, the CIA and the Acquaint Search Project
James Fallow's article at the New York Times, "Enough Keyword Searches. Just Answer My Question," June 12, 2005, goes far, far beyond the scope of his search frustrations and instead ends up trolling the waters of a virtually hush, hush search project sponsored by the National Security Agency in cahoots with the CIA.Fallow says the project is currently classified, but posits the theory that the project, called Acquaint, aims to design a search tool/algorithm that mimics neural learning (or so it sounds). The hopes for the combined efforts, including IBM's, are that a specific query can be entered into a search field and that new order algorithms will so accurately parse and swiftly traverse the world wide webstore of documents, but return a true, pristine and unmuddied match. While he claims the project's goals, as they currently stand, are focussed on only good, he does make mention of their potential for the Dark Side of search....
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