We had to solve two challenges:

1. a robust algorithm, that identifies duplicates even if they appear within a different template with different menu, header or footer.
2. do it web scale, i.e. every single new web page needs to be compared to the whole corpus of existing web pages

The screenshots below illustrate the effect of Near Duplicate Detection. See the difference between Google and FAROO results:

FAROO – with Near Duplicate Detection

Google – without Near Duplicate Detection

But what when you are not so much intrested in a specific site, but rather in a topic – let’s say about “Facebook Timeline”? Then you would have to subscribe to countless technolgy blogs, and to browse their countless blog posts, perhaps several times a day.

With our Topic Stream you can create your custom, topic based RSS stream. It will aggregate all blog posts about a specific topic from all the diffferent sources we are indexing. That’s convenient.
Even better, you can use your preferred RSS client or Google reader to read all of your topic streams in one place, together with some traditional RSS feeds you may still want to read.

Here an the “Facebook Timeline” example:

Topic Stream
RSS Feed
Google Reader

Trending Topic Discovery identifies those news, which are covered most often in the last 24 hours. This gives you a clear picture what news are trending and will be talk of the town. Most discussed news are on top.

Topic Aggregation brings all the news from different sources together, if they belong to the same topic. News within a topic are sorted chronlogically.

Trending Topic Discovery and Topic Aggregation together provide a convenient news digest, samewhat similar to Techmeme, just fully algorithmical, without human editors.

Your stay above the information overflow. Instead of browsing all the countless sources manually and repeatedly to stay updated, being overwhelmed with both repeating topics, and many less-relevant items, we filter, group and sort the information for you.

See it in action: http://www.faroo.com/#q=&s=1&src=news

Use our results in your application, for free.

We are offering four different functions:

• Web Search,
• News Search,
• Trending News
• Trending Topics

Results are available in three different formats:

• JSON
• XML
• RSS

Try our FREE Web Search API, if your looking for an alternative to
Google Web Search API (depreciated), Yahoo Boss (commercial) or Bing Web Search API (commercial).

Start using it: http://www.faroo.com/hp/api/api.html

You want to use the API in China? We have both Chinese search results and gateway servers located in China. Contact us!

Give it a try: http://www.faroo.com

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Well, this is not merely an update, it’s rather a complete rewrite. Based on a new flexible architecture all of the previous limitations are gone.

While some of the better newsreaders for iOS are able to provide a dozen sources per page, we decided to remove all those limitations once and for all, both for iPhone and iPad.

The FAROO App now supports an unlimited number of feeds. The animation stays smooth as ever.

But thats not all. Here the complete list of the improvements:

1. New architecture allows an unlimited number of streams and items per stream.
2. New Google Reader Synchronization.
3. New Archive function which allows to store articles for later reading.
4. New RSS Feed search assistant to search for new feeds by person, topic or blog.
5. New georgeous animated front page.
6. New sleek animated transition between stream view and text view.
7. New central menu for the new functions.
8. New help function.

As always, this is an Universal App, running both on the iPhone and the iPad. And it is FREE. Get it from the AppStore right now.

This is an Universal App, running both on the iPhone and the iPad. And it is FREE. Get it from the AppStore right now.

What’s unique

1. First Web Search App written natively for the iPad .
2. Combines active Search and passive News discovery (News reader).
3. Integrated Text Preview eliminates the web page loading time, provides a uniform design across pages and serves as offline reader.
4. Visual Search Result and Search History streams.
5. Turns any query into a continuous Search Feed

FAROO is the first Web Search App designed for the iPad platform.

The form factor and touch UI, the visual search stream representation, and the combination of Search and News are quite fundamentally changing the search experience.

Try it out and let us know how you like it.

It now consistently presents our three core products:

• P2P Search,
• Real-time Search,
• iPad / iPhone App.

With more users, we changed from the pure technology focus towards a more consumer friendly product page.

We hope you like it.

The default search order has been switched from popularity to recency. But you may still change the sort order it at any time.

Have a look and check it out at http://www.faroo.com .