Ask Bluey is a search and discovery engine that helps you to find new web pages that relate to your own interests and the pages that you "like".
Designed and developed in Bondi Beach, we compared the way unexpected objects wash up on the beach to the way you discover things on the internet. So we wanted "Bluey" to represent the ocean with all its possibilities of new discovery.
Ask Bluey is built in c++ and c# on an ASP.NET MVC 3 stack. The custom built indexing technology leverages natural language processing and semantic analysis and is built in c++ for performance.
Third party front end libraries used by Ask Bluey include:
Back end libraries include:
- Boost - specifically the Boost Graph Library
- LIBSVM for support vector classification
- Eigen and dnAnalytics for linear algebra and decomposition
- Facebook SDK for Facebook integration
- Twitterizer for Twitter integration
- SharpZipLib for zip file handling
- 51Degrees.mobi for mobile detection
- ASP.NET MVC Sprite and Image Optimization
Icon sets are from led24 and Pro Theme Design.
Additional Information
Ask Bluey was developed by Ice Blue Digital between 2008 and 2012 - starting as a side project by Jack Dermody that slowly took on a life of its own.
Parts of this website are available under the following licenses:
Wordnet
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
THIS SOFTWARE AND DATABASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT- ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, DATABASE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS.
Wikipedia
Text from Wikipedia is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license and the GNU Free Documentation License.
Bing
Some web and image results on Ask Bluey are retrieved via the Bing API.
