Thanks to some recent extra hours by our team we're ready to release our latest labs prototype to the public in a hipness compliant alpha-state:

Infolust is a new context search engine. It's for all those moments when you sit in front of a website and think "Now that's interesting" and would like to know more. Now this "More" is just a single click away. It compares existing web-pages with all Wikipedia pages and fetches up to 10 related ones. It's a first step of bringing our Similarity Engine to consumers for free.

While we're still working hard on improving things like the IE6 bookmarklet capabilities, especially for pages that contain frames, it's necessary to gain as much statistics (of course no personal or address related whatsoever) as possible to optimize it for additional content sources than Wikipedia and improve the backend efficiency.

So far the results are surprisingly good for a third of the queries, quite OK for another third and not so good for the last third. The main issue isn't so much to determine the similarity itself but distinguish between the actual content on a query page and things like navigation, footers etc. especially because we don't do any "lookup wikipedia page titles in text" tricks but rather rely on a full semantic analysis and comparison of pages.

That said we'd be more than happy to hear your suggestions /sightings / comments and hope you enjoy what Infolust is doing so far!