Web guide focuses on organization over relevance to serve up experiences around topics When searching for something specific, like "Pizza San Francisco" or "Piano instructors, Manhattan," using Google like the Yellow Pages is commonplace. But when searching for unknown or hard-to-put-your-finger-on information, it's more an act of browsing. When browsing for a topic, say "Calvin & Hobbes," Google or other search engines aren't very useful in providing a 360 degree view of what's available on the Web. That's where Kosmix comes in. "Topics are areas where search doesn’t do a good job on. They do a great job when you have a simple question for which you want an answer. When you have an open-ended exploration process, that’s what we want to get into," said Venky Harinarayan, co-founder of Kosmix, in the first ... [ Read more ]