Kartoo has launched new search engine, Ujiko. I am sure there is an explanation for this name, but I don’t know it. Uses Yahoo Search technology, and lets you to customize results based on what you like and don’t like, and, interestingly, keeps all user data on *your* machine. I do believe this issue of who controls/owns/has rights to user data will be important to most users in a few years, and a significant point of product differentiation. Gary has a review here.
Ujiko
Kartoo has launched new search engine, Ujiko. I am sure there is an explanation for this name, but I don't know it. Uses Yahoo Search technology, and lets you to customize results based on what you like and don't like, and, interestingly, keeps all user data on *your* machine….
Interesting concept. With regard to the name perhaps this might offer a clue..
http://www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/bts/bts_u.html#ujiko
UJIKO are also five contiguous keys at the centre of the keyboard
You are onto it Andrea.
Check out the end of their flash demo, the graphically confirm that their name is taken from the keyboard layout as you suggest.
http://www.ujiko.com/en_demo.htm
Hi all of you,
As a french, I can tell a bit more on UJIKO !
You are right, the name simply comes from the proximity of the letters on the keybord. No hidden and intellectual sense on that one !
Guillaume Gelis
They have just introduced a new version of UJIKO, the elephant is gone but a 3D design and games levels are appearing – Great concept!