Frequently Asked Questions

General

Where do all of the articles come from?

Proximic scans approximately 1.3 million RSS feeds including the Bloglines top 1000 feeds. Proximic also leverages the vast landscape of Wikipedia articles to find relevant content.

How up-to-date is the information?

The Proximic servers are constantly running and refresh content. If you are looking for up-to-the-minute information, simply use the up-arrow button on the results page to sort by date (rather than relevance).

How many agents can I store on my iPhone?

You can store as many as your iPhone can hold (quite a few).

Who should I contact if I would like to partner with Proximic?

Use the contact us page on the Proximic corporate site to reach the Business Development team.

Technical

How does the Agents applicaton match content?

As opposed to keyword density matching, application uses Proximic's proprietary Pattern Proximity Matching engine to match content.

What other languages are supported?

Because of the Pattern Proximity core, the agent's application can support any market with an iTunes store. However at this time, the Agents application is only localized to english speaking countries.

How is Agents able to handle highly-specified Agents?

Through the use of Pattern Proximity Matching, the Agents application doesn't focus on specific words, but rather the interelationship between words. By this convention, the Agents application is able to match relevant websites using a single lean "profile", rather than many independent keyword triggers (as with keyword density matching).