hakia Leverages Yahoo! Search BOSS to Accelerate its Semantic Analysis of the World Wide Web NEW YORK, NEW YORK - July 10, 2008 - hakia, the Web leading semantic search engine, today announced that it is leveraging Yahoo! Search BOSS [Build Your Own Search Service] to accelerate its semantic analysis of the World Wide Web. By leveraging BOSS technology, which was announced on July 9th, 2008, hakia now has access to vast amounts of Web documents and other resources in the Yahoo! Search infrastructure. This accelerates hakia's crawling of the Web to identify quality documents for semantic analysis using its advanced QDEX (Query Detection and Extraction) technology. The QDEX method of storing online information represents a major advancement over today's method of indexing key words on Web pages. By using semantic algorithms to analyze the meanings of and relationships between all the words and concepts on a Webpage, hakia can capture and store all of the meaningful questions that users could ask, thereby delivering inherently more precise and relevant results. "Accessing Yahoo!'s resources via Yahoo! Search BOSS geometrically increases our ability to QDEX the entire World Wide Web and usher in the next evolution of search - semantic, or natural language search," said Dr. Riza Berkan, CEO of hakia. "BOSS is a great testament to Yahoo!'s foresight, strategic thinking and leadership, and illustrates the growing need for new technologies that will improve the user experience and overall search capabilities." hakia is focused on providing a quality search experience for its users, with its empowering semantic technology that generates results from the most credible - not just the most popular - sources. By making the quality and relevance the foundation of its search results, hakia is the first search engine to offer an alternative to popularity-based methods. For information about Yahoo! Search BOSS visit the Yahoo! Developer Network site, www.developer.yahoo.com/boss. About hakia hakia is a pioneer in the semantic search space and is currently in the late stages of developing technology with the potential to revolutionize the search industry. Founded in 2004, hakia is privately held and based in New York City. For more information about hakia, please visit http://www.hakia.com.