For the 2007 model year, Toyota discontinued the Matrix XRS (the most powerful version of that particular model). Closer to 2000, the Ford Escort, a perfectly nice little car, was replaced with the Focus, which was then recalled 12 times. But things in the automotive world generally improve over the years, and so it was fairly exciting when Autobytel selected Kosmix to power its next-generation website, MyRide.com.
Kosmix, Healthline Had Death Cap Cure
Our earlier story about a doctor in California who turned to Google Scholar to find a treatment for death cap mushroom poisoning has an interesting coda: he wasted too much time on the Big G.
Kosmix Searches Yield Oddities
Kosmix.com is a self-proclaimed “world class search engine that lets people search less, and discover more great stuff.” It attempts to return search results sorted into categories that the user can then inspect or ignore. But based on the results several test queries generated, Kosmix still has a few kinks to work out.
Kosmix Health Search Goes Alpha
A new health topic search engine that will compete with Healthline and established sites like WebMD has launched as an early public test.