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Yossarian Lives is a metaphorical search engine, a type of Internet search engine.〔 Its algorithms return results that are disparate, but potentially metaphorically related to the user's query. These results are intended to encourage creative thinking and diversity of thought. "We don't want you to know what everyone else knows, we want you to generate new knowledge."〔 The search engine emphasizes new knowledge vs. the reinforcing of existing information. The site works to avoid the "filter bubble" by returning results that are conceptually related but disparate, compared with traditional search engines that return the most popular or common results. The company is based in London, UK. == History == Yossarian Lives was founded by Daniel Foster-Smith, J. Paul Neeley, and Dr. Katia Shutova in 2011. The idea for the engine came to Foster-Smith & Neeley in February 2011 during a late night conversation while students at the Royal College of Art in Design Interactions.〔 The next month, while visiting the Cambridge Computer Lab and sharing their initial work, the two were introduced to Katia Shutova, a researcher completing her PhD in computational approaches to figurative language. The three discussed the possibilities of incorporating Shutova's research, and she joined as the third co-founder.〔 Neeley states that Yossarian Lives aims to find new ways around the "filter bubble," helping people generate new ideas, suggesting that "Search engines make suggestions based on what everyone else has searched for. Instead of inviting us to stretch or grow, these algorithms collapse possibilities."〔 The ambitions and difficulties of the project have been highlighted by observers. As an example, YossarianLives talks about "The Stephen Fry Problem," an issue where individual users' understanding of particular metaphors vary. The name of the search engine has been a topic of discussion. According to a NewScientist article, "The name is derived from the anti-hero of the novel Catch-22, as the company wants to solve the catch-22 of existing search engines, which they say help us to access current knowledge but also harm us by reinforcing that knowledge above all else."〔 Neeley defends the name and suggests it is working well for the company.〔 The company outlines several reasons why they love the name, and suggest that on several occasions it has been called the best company name ever. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「YossarianLives」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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