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good idea in theory, but the search is "ridiculously" slow. Not to mention the fact that it doesn't work after the first search. Also, you're using the term "semantic" wrong.

HN effect, search should be < 500msec normally. It is indeed semantic (POS tagger & chunker), but as mentioned atm this only tries to build Yahoo BOSS queries, which can't OR and rank, thus the bit lame results.

POS tagger & chunker has nothing to do with search being semantic. Here's the definition of semantic search: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_search

As I said, i think it's a good idea. I just think you should do some due diligence when using buzz words like "ridiculously fast" or "semantic search". A lot of people are allergic to buzzwords

After meandering through the Euro SemWeb ecosystem in 2005 i took the idiosyncratic liberty to include everything that uses semantics (eg POS) in that bracket. But definitely get the point, ridiculously was the next choice after "here's your weekly writer app".

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