Cinthia King

Borg Collective GmbH

It is hard to know what information you can trust these days. At Borg, we are working on solving this problem. To do that, we have developed a novel algorithm that enables the surfacing of high-quality information. We are now indexing social media and beyond, starting with Twitter. Existing search engines are content-centric. Their indexes are built around indexing connections between content and assigning them authority scores for particular topics. When humans evaluate how credible information is, we are author-centric -– we want to know how credible the person who created the content is. At Borg, we are building technology that will enable us to index the internet with this approach in mind. The next Google is not going to look like Google. Borg will not be a website where you type in a query. It is going to live in your WhatsApp, in your Siri, and in other products that you already use. It will be a combination of your personal "brain firewall" and a genius assistant with access to all of humanity's knowledge and who understands you like a sibling. It is going to take many years to build Borg. We are going step by step. We have created two products. The first is Borg.api, which gives developers access to our index of tens of millions of social media accounts to infuse social intelligence into their apps without needing to index social media. The second is Hive.one, a powerful explorer for Twitter communities and relationships. At Borg, we do cutting-edge R&D and turn it into products. We are tackling some of the hardest problems in data science, building infrastructure to handle gigantic amounts of data, and innovating on novel user interfaces. You will love it here if you want a meaningful cause and a challenge.