New Zealand Looks at Search Technology in a New Way

New search engine technology is now being used for external web sites of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment in New Zealand. Locally-developed Syl offers client relationship management databases, information management system, global expert database, and Windows file share.

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College Search Takes On New Technology

Choosing a college is daunting to every high school student looking to broaden their horizons and further their education. Now there is a new tool available to assist seekers in refining their searches using map search technology.

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Jokes, Unstructured

Humor me while I share a funny (pun totally intended) with you. I stumbled across A Taxonomy of Cognitive Jokes and the more I read the funnier it became. Maybe I’ve been writing about taxonomies for too long, or maybe I just need more sleep (probably the latter), but this cracked me up. Cognitive jokes…

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What Does the Future Hold for Search?

The act of search continues to evolve and grow as technology does the same. Semantic technology takes search to a new level. It demands that the software understand the information in the way it was intended. For software to comprehend the meaning behind what a human has put to text requires a certain amount of artificial intelligence.

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Measuring Accuracy in Search

When people talk about how accurate the search is, there are lots of different ways to measure that. This list indicates some of the ways that we talk about measuring accuracy.

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