hakia Launches Syndication Web Services

hakia's First Partner, Berggi, Offers Semantic Search to Mobile Market in a
Pioneering Role

NEW YORK, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- hakia, the Web's leading semantic search
engine, today announced the launch of its Syndication Web Services for Web
sites and businesses looking to offer semantic search to their visitors.
Berggi, an emerging global leader in mobile consumer applications, is hakia's
first partner to offer semantic search on mobile phones.
hakia's Syndication Web Services deliver the same core semantic technology
that powers hakia's award winning search engine, along with many other
applications suitable for portals, search engine marketing firms, mobile
applications and document management systems. The services provide an XML
feed, and options to customize the feed. hakia offers 30,000 searches per day
free of charge and free of advertising that is available to early adopters
until the partners' quota is filled.
"The hakia implementation is simple and beneficial to a range of
applications, from advertising to document management," said Dr. Riza Berkan,
CEO, hakia. "Now, webmasters with the most complex projects will experience
unique improvements that are possible only by semantic search technology."
"The ability to search the web from your mobile phone will soon be a key
consumer need, as people do more with their cell phones on the go. What drew
us to hakia is the power of their semantic search results, which we believe
will be central to global mass market adoption of any web search offer for
mobile phones," said Babur Ozden, CEO of Berggi.
Using hakia Syndication Web Services, Berggi has already released an alpha
version of a simple and easy to use mobile search application for global
market adoption. The application is compatible with AT&T and Sprint phones and
can be downloaded from http://www.berggisearch.com.
Key Features - hakia Syndication Web Services
hakia's exclusive syndication services will include the following key
features:
-- Web Search - Brings search results from the World Wide Web
-- News Search - Brings news articles for a given query
-- Vertical Search - Brings search results from a vertical (for example,
health) or from a particular database (such as PubMed.org)
-- Summarizer - Provides a summary of a given text block or URL, ideal
for content management systems
-- Categorizer - Identifies categorical terms from a given text (URL or
text block)
-- Characterizer - Identifies and expands descriptive phrases, keywords
or tags. Ideal for SEM professionals and publishers
-- TMR (Text Meaning Representation) - Provides text meaning
representation of a given text block, suitable for core technology development
For simpler and direct applications, partners can benefit from hakia's
Search Box. For more complex development projects, the hakia Technology
Licensing program is available.
More information on hakia's Syndication Web Services can be found at
http://club.hakia.com.
About hakia
hakia is a pioneer in the semantic search space and is currently in the
late stages of developing technology with the potential to revolutionize the
search industry. Founded in 2004, hakia is privately held and based in New
York City. For more information about hakia, please visit
http://www.hakia.com.
SOURCE hakia

Farrah Hamid, +1-212-219-0255 x. 121, farrah@hakia.com, of hakia; or Stephen
Sumner, +1-212-445-8475, ssumner@webershandwick.com, of Weber Shandwick, for
hakia