Hello everyone, CrossChain Labs is pleased to announce that Querio is live on https://querio.io/
Querio is a search engine of exceptional speed and accuracy that empowers its users to search over the Internet Computer. The search results returned by Querio have a level of specificity that exceeds those produced by other web3.0 search engines.
What it does?
empowers users to search for multiple words at the same time
provides autocomplete suggestions as the user types words, designed to make it faster to perform searches
returns accurate results almost instantly
displays the number of search results and the duration taken by the search process
exhibits each canisterâs logo
show content snippets derived from the information retrieved on the searched pages
implements pagination for displaying search results
efficiently scrapes all canisters of the Internet Computer within a span of 24 hours, in order to keep the search results as current as possible.
Inspiration
The idea of Querio came to our mind during the ICP.lab Business Booster, PR&Marketing session, when Shruti Sutwala presented the Web2 â Web3 equivalents and we noticed that an accurate, fast and reliable search engine equivalent dedicated to ICP was missing.
From that point forward, we started the development of Querio and have been solely financing the research, development, infrastructure and release.
Whatâs next?
Our main focus is on expediting the launch of Querio SNS DAO. Once the token is created, we will proceed with the development of additional functionalities. Our vision for Querio is to evolve into a cross-chain web3 search engine, by expanding the scope of its searches to cover various web3 chains, including Ethereum.
In the second half of March, we started our work on Querio and accomplished the development of the product from idea to launch within less than two months.
Our primary goal was to determine if it was possible to develop an advanced search engine for the Internet Computer and now weâre working on the process of transferring its code on-chain.
@apotheosis, during the development process of Querio we became aware that Kinic started on a grant nearly a year ago.
But try searching different words, for example âwhitepaperâ. Check the results and youâll see the differences: 8 results from Kinic, 86 results from Querio. In addition, Kinic doesnât support multiple-word searches, content snippet, results counter, canisterâs logo, autocomplete suggestions while typing, and so on.
As mentioned, we are now weâre working on the process of transferring Querioâs code on-chain. It wonât take long.
As you mentioned above the total work for those features took your team two months⌠if you do SNS you will need to open source, what stops Kinic from just using your open-source code or building better code (as the Kinic DAO members are very creative and original)?
Consumers can choose which they like better.
I tried both and for certain terms they do well⌠for others not so much. Subtitles are a big messâŚ
It is a copy when there are infinite ideas that are needed in the world. Just why?
âMy projectâ? Kinic is going to be run by a DAO. I receive 0 from SNS or anything else. I think the DAO version with multiple devs globally, and 100% on-chain is going to do very well.
I think we can all agree that if a new slightly modified off-chain version of ICP came out⌠we would share what we think.
@apotheosis thanks for your observations, weâll address them one by one:
It is off-chain completely.
Is off-chain just for now, will be on-chain soon. It appears that Kinic is not entirely on-chain as only its frontend is running on a canister. It also seems that an web2.0 search API is what is being used by Kinicâs frontend canister.
Consumers can choose which they like better. I tried both and for certain terms they do well⌠for others not so much. Subtitles are a big messâŚ
We appreciate your feedback, and we are continuously improving Querio.
It is a copy when there are infinite ideas that are needed in the world. Just why?
The idea of Querio came to our mind during the ICP.lab Business Booster, PR&Marketing session, when Shruti Sutwala presented the Web2 â Web3 equivalents and we noticed that a search engine equivalent dedicated to ICP was missing, Kinic was not on that list. During the development process of Querio we became aware that Kinic started on a grant nearly a year ago. The existence of competition leads to the development of superior products, thus we extend our best wishes to you.
âMy projectâ? Kinic is going to be run by a DAO. I receive 0 from SNS or anything else. I think the DAO version with multiple devs globally, and 100% on-chain is going to do very well.
Not sure of which project youâre referring to, but Kinic started on a Dfinity grant nearly a year ago. On the other hand, Querio has been funded solely by us.
Works better than Kinic, however the name Querio is quite strange I think rebrand would do well is there any way to get involved in the project early I.e nfts etc
Please do not post lies or half-truthsâŚ
Kinic already has both⌠they are toggled on and off for testing pre-SNS. The backend has equivalent versions for both on-chain and off-chain support. After the SNS it was planned to have just the 100% on-chain version running. The key here is that both web2 and web3 devs have been using Kinic API.
3. Competition is goodâŚ
But in a small emerging space like the IC it sets a bad precedent. Now anyone can throw together a 100% off-chain version of any dApp and make a post right before an SNS⌠âLook its better because it works off-chainâŚâ
4. Kinic won its category in Supernova hackathon⌠It was not a grant
It had a very similar start as you do with a one month development time that slowly grew into a community worthy DAO. Can it be better? Yeah!
We chose âQuerioâ because is a unique name, easy to remember, that suggests the idea of searching or querying. Additionally, we felt the name has a modern and innovative feel to it, which can be appealing for users.
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There shouldnât be any privacy concerns since we donât store users data and donât use ads.
Web3 is all about decentralisation, open-source, and user ownership. Everything that I read so far seems like you use AWS, and Google: probably with special web2 search software that will be hard to port to the IC. Elastic search?
The forthcoming plan is to:
Publish the white paper and roadmap
Create a campaign on Funded
Launch Querio SNS DAO
This reads like a cash grab.
As another poster mentioned above, the timing is very suspicious.
You could have released a few weeks after the native IC search engine did its SNS and then you would need to build a superior on-chain web3 native version to compete. Rather you went for the âsteal the thunderâ approach for points two and three above.
Can you please share how you plan to make this more web3?
How will this alter you current business model and search technology?
How and when will you port your database and open-source it?
Recently Origyn, CanScale, and Kinic open-sourced their version: CanDB.
Do you plan on using or contributing to this?