ZDNET -February 3, 2000

IBM: Not living by databases alone

In addition to previewing key components in the next release of DB2 Universal Database (UDB) to selected journalists, CS researchers showcased research projects that enable enterprises and end-users to leverage the vast amount of data residing on the Web: CueVideo multimedia indexing project, CLEVER search engine project, and Garlic middleware data-manipulation project.

FORBES - August 23, 1999

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Is there any more exasperating experience than trying to search for something on the Web? Some promising new software offers a bit of hope.

NEW YORK TIMES ON THE WEB - June 21, 1999

On the Web, as Elsewhere, Popularity is Self-Reinforcing

On the World Wide Web, the rich are getting richer. Researchers have found that the most popular Web sites command by far the biggest share of Internet traffic -- a signature of what economists refer to as "winner take all" markets. (free registration required to view article)

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - June 1999

Hypersearching the Web

With the volume of on-line information in cyberspace growing at a breakneck pace, more effective search tools are desperately needed. A new technique analyzes how Web pages are linked together.

WIRED NEWS - November 27, 1998

A Clever New Way to Search?

IBM has developed a new search engine process that the company says will blend the speed and comprehension of an automated search engine with the discerning results of a human-generated index.

FORBES - November 23, 1998

How clever is Clever?

Internet search engines are a little like the weather: Everyone complains about them but no one does anything. But in trying to do something about searching the web, computer scientists at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif. may have become the web's first anthropologists.

ZDNET - October 13, 1998

Five Amazing Inventions Still in the Labs

Search specialists at Cornell University and IBM's Almaden Research Center have created an algorithm, dubbed "Clever," that filters Web pages by both content and the related links contained therein. As a result, a Clever search on, say fishing, finds 30 authoritative pages, compared with 1 million URLs on a traditional engine.

THE INDUSTRY STANDARD - September 25, 1998

The Future of Search Engines

It's not always easy to find what you're looking for on the Web. Three new players offer technology to make the search process a whole lot less painful.

PC WORLD TODAY - September 21, 1998

An end to mile-long searches?

With more than 270 million documents now on the Web and growing by a million pages a day, cataloging and organizing the electronic compendium of human thought, actions, intellect, and all matters banal and serious is more than daunting.

PC WORLD TODAY - September 21, 1998

IBM Promises Pinpoint Searches

IBM researchers create a "Clever" technology for finding just the information you need.

SEARCH ENGINE WATCH - August 4, 1998

Counting Clicks and Looking at Links

You may have heard of Clever through some scattered press coverage recently given to its core technology, HITS. HITS stands for Hypertext-Induced Topic Search, and it was developed by Cornell University researcher Jon Kleinberg, while he was a visiting scientist at IBM's Almaden Research Center.

TECHNOLOGY REVIEW MIT's Magazine of Innovation - July 6, 1998

Untangling Web Searches: A more discerning way to find information

Kleinberg has devised an approach for sifting the contents of the Web that could go a long way toward solving what he calls the Web's "abundance problem."

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - July 1998

LOST IN CYBERSPACE: Scientists look for a better way to search the Web

A new technique that analyzes how documents posted on the Internet are linked to one another could provide relief.

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