Elevator Pitch Friday: Truevert, The Green Search Engine(techcrunch.com)

Elevator Pitch Friday: Truevert, The Green Search Engine

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/14/elevator-pitch-friday-truevert-the-green-search-engine/

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"Truevert gives you special results—everything comes back through green-colored glasses. So a search for 'SUV' brings back HybridSUV.com as the top result. A search for 'building materials' brings back results for green building materials."

Until you search for something that isn't generic, then it returns poor results -- or at least it did when searching for relatively simple things in Seattle.

"It is a Yahoo BOSS search mashup. Truevert is actually just a demonstration of some powerful underlying semantic technology developed at OrcaTec, a company co-founded by Roitblat and Brian Golbère. Truevert gets its search results from Yahoo BOSS and applies its own text-analyzing software to generate the most relevant green results. OrcaTec’s software could just as easily be used to create a fashion search engine, a startup search engine, or any of a thousand other vertical search engines."

Once it works.