Bangalore 26th May 2008 - Sobha Renaissance Information Technology (SRIT) today announced the launch of iCognueTM, its much awaited internet search engine powered by LMaiTM (Latent Metonymical Analysis and Indexing), an algorithm for deriving the richest contextual relationship for a search topic, till date. The algorithm was globally announced and filed for an international patent last year. In simple terms, iCognue will pave way for search to transcend beyond keyword search, where results revolve around the larger context of the typed keyword and not only around the keyword.
Three principal aspects that set iCognue apart are:
- Most consistent, rich and accurate contextual internet search in the globe today
- Results derived through Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques needing little or no human intervention, allowing the search engine to grow more and more intelligent automatically with the increase in the size of data indexed
- Search limited to Encyclopedia, Wikipedia and Healthcare for time being
What
iCognue is a search engine powered by LMai, an algorithm in the realm of Artificial intelligence enabling unsupervised machine learning. While the concept of unsupervised machine learning has been around for sometime now, where LMai differs is the effectiveness in deriving artificial intelligence in internet search helping the machine to infer the context of the keywords typed by the user and providing richer contextual results around the subject. Basis our own observation and research we are of the humble opinion that LMai consistently delivers deeper and richer contextual result compared to all other internet search existing in the world today.
Why
The algorithm itself, LMai was launched and announced last year. While there is a lot of information available on LMai on the internet, including a webcast of the press conference announcing the same, a few important coverage received is attached herewith. However, it was needed for SRIT to demonstrate the true potential of the algorithm by launching our own search as LMai works on unstructured data ( the internet) and results are evident, holistically, only when actually applied to the internet live, and not on a sample, data.
LMaiTM Launch, Bangalore, May 2007 Media at the LMaiTM Launch, May 2007

Dr. Madhu Nambiar Co-Founder, MD & CEO SRIT at the launch
We have started off with crawling and Indexing Encyclopedia portals on the web for now but are targeting to crawl/Index the entire web.
Coverage of LMai Launch last year:
Media: The Times of India
Date: May 10th 2007
Media: The Hindu Business Line
Date: May 10th 2007
Media: Business Standard
Date: May 15th 2007
Media: The Economic Times
Date: May 8th 2007