Paperball
Paperball is a German news search engine . Based on Friedrich Förster's thesis, it was developed by the Communication and Information Technology (KIT) project group at the TU Berlin as part of a cooperation with the Gruner + Jahr subsidiary Electronic Media Service GmbH, through which the German-language Internet search service Fireball was developed . The first version of Paperball searched around 40 German daily newspapers and was the most widely used news search engine in Germany until the start of Google News Search.
development
In March 2000, the operating company Netsearch GmbH was sold by Gruner + Jahr to Lycos Europe in exchange for a stake .
In 2003 the second version of the search engine was published. The offer now comprised more than 100 German daily newspapers as well as some international daily newspapers. In the following years Paperball was continuously developed, u. a. with technologies of the neofonie later with AOL and Web.de were used. The index was provided by Yahoo .
In 2008 the search engine was fundamentally revised in terms of content and technology. In addition to more than 3000 German sources and 6 million messages, Paperball has since also offered a news search engine for mobile devices. The index was provided by findo.de.
In spring 2009, the search engine Paperball.de was sold to “Munich entrepreneurs” as part of the liquidation of Lycos Europe. Since then it has been continued by Paperball GmbH as an "independent news search".
The latest addition was the “Paperball Knowledge” area, with which a “Paperball Community” is to build a “Knowledge Pool” with information on topics that are not covered by Wikipedia or a lexicon.
Web links
- Paperball.de
- Link catalog on the subject of search services for current news at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
proof
- ^ Friedrich "Fritz" Förster, Technical University of Berlin. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.uni-protocol.de/nachrichten/id/39044/
- ↑ http://www.tomshardware.com/de/gruner-jahr-vereint-fireball-und-lycos,news-713.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Fireball-bleibt-erhalten-56757.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.pressebox.de/pressemmeldung/lycos-europe/boxid-213492.html
- ↑ About Paperball ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , paperball.de, September 21, 2010.
- ↑ About Paperball ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , paperball.de, September 21, 2010.
