What is Kosmix?
Kosmix is a search engine and web portal launched in 2005. It aims to revolutionize search by structuring the world's information into an easy-to-understand format.
Unlike traditional search engines that return a list of blue links, Kosmix organizes information into topic pages, almost like a Wikipedia article. The goal is to provide more meaningful and structured results that satisfy the user's informational needs.
Kosmix uses semantic technologies to understand the meaning and context behind queries. By identifying a user's intent, it can provide direct answers to questions, data from structured sources, images, videos, and other relevant information on a topic - all presented in an intuitive graphic format.
A key advantage of Kosmix is its use of the Topic Pages index, which has pre-compiled information on millions of topics. This database-style organization allows it to serve up structured data faster than generating web summaries on the fly.
Kosmix was founded by Anand Rajaraman, Venky Harinarayan, and Anand Rajaraman. The technology behind Kosmix later became the foundation for Walmart Labs after the company was acquired in 2011.