User:Marco.org
About me
- Name: Marco Arment
- Website: Marco.org, a low-traffic review/article/blog/forum site.
- Education: BS in Computer Science from Allegheny College, 2004.
- Employer: Vivisimo, makers of Clusty.
- Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (more specificially, Squirrel Hill).
- Hometown: Columbus, Ohio.
I'm a regular Wikipedia reader and occasional contributor, from both home and work. My contributions are generally basic grammar and spelling corrections, although I've occasionally added actual content that isn't important enough to mention here.
- Contact me: webmaster@marco.org
About my job
I'm a Software Engineer at Vivisimo. While I have a large range of tasks and responsibilities, one of my major contributions is the complete design, implementation, and maintenance of the Wikipedia tab on Clusty.
We download the database 1-2 times weekly (whenever it's updated) and parse it with a massive converter. The entire search is indexed and hosted locally. We intelligently index the contents based on inherent Wikipedia features and structure including redirects, disambiguations, and categories. We also intelligently generate abstracts.
In addition to providing a dedicated Wikipedia search, we also boost relevant Wikipedia entries in general Web+ search results, showing their abstracts (with thumbnailed images) above other search results.
At this time, we only use the English database. As the Wikipedia collections in other languages grow, we may consider including them.
- Contact me at Vivisimo: arment@vivisimo.com