Although the search engine company will debut its service in Europe, its Chinese history has driven some to criticize Accoona. Britain's Guardian co-founded there by the China Daily Information Company. The report cited China Daily as an agency of the government. Member of Parliament Not exactly a warm welcome for the search engine, whose CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer said that right or wrong, "We cannot violate local laws." Accoona touts its Artificial Intelligence technology as being an advantage over other search engines. By understanding the meaning of queries made by searchers, Accoona claims it can deliver more relevant results than just finding pages containing all of the keywords queried. Its SuperTarget technology lets users designate one keyword out of a group as being the most important. Accoona's results then rank the pages by the importance of the meaning of that one keyword over the others in the string. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.
Accoona Europe Launch Spurs Controversy
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