Rankdex: The Qualitative Web Search Engine

Site Scoring Algorithm

Founded in 1935, Investment Dealers' Digest (now Tradeline) was a publicly traded full-service multimedia financial publishing, database, software and consulting company that served the professional investor community for many years. IDD Information Services / GARI Software was IDD's multimedia financial information services division. Its purpose was to develop a computer program that could predict movements in the primary economic sector called Tradeline. It was delisted from the stock exchange after the dot-com crash of 2002.

The purpose of IDDIS / GARI software was to develop an AI Intraday trading module, but the focus became using the AI for a world wide web search engine when the first web browser was released in 1993. That same year Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich invented the word "Yandex" to describe a new type of website search engine that would rank websites based on how websites relate to one-another using artificial intelligence. The name initially stood for "Yet Another iNDEXer." The Russian word "Я" ("Ya") corresponds to the English personal pronoun "I", making "Яndex" a bilingual pun on "index." Initially, the AI search engine was developed by Arkady Volozh, Ilya Segalovich, Yanhong Li, and Clinton Cimring. It is regarded as the most sophisticated AI algorithm ever patented and is used by Baidu, Bing, and Yandex and referenced in the patent application for Google by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

In 2002 while Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich went on to incorporate Yankdex as their own company in Russia and Yanhong Li incorporated RankDex in China as "Baidu," Clinton Cimring took over the development of the Tradeline Intraday trading module.

The purpose of Tradeline is to provide an Intraday trading module to both professional brokers and day traders to combat automated bots that have been attributed to controlling commodity and stock movements independent of economic factors. For example, a company that is highly rated and posts a positive earnings report and then closes at a high opens the next day below traders’ stop (limit) orders because automated bots trading billions of dollars have been programmed to manipulate the price of that particular stock. The solution can be used with both commodities and stocks on primary US markets. It currently automatically day trades a commodity or stock and not in high frequency small amounts (like the hedge funds do when programming their strategies). This amounts to 100+ trades per day in fractions of a second and targets an optimal amount of the current move.