Posts by Melody Smith
Speedy Data Access
Solid-state storage drive maker STEC has introduced a new industrial-strength SSD aimed at enterprises deploying fast and/or continuous read/write workloads that include metadata logging, journaling and database indexing applications.
Read MoreHappy Birthday Google News!
Eight years since the launch of Google News, the information directory continues to grow as one of the company’s most important products and the internet’s most influential news portal. Google today indexes news from more than 50,000 sources in 30 languages.
Read MoreCollaboration with Metadata Editing is Working
The changes happening with how metadata is edited and enhanced continue to create collaboration opportunities. The change we are now seeing is that bibliographic data is being edited more in a wiki-style than in the ways it was in the past and therefore, a big increase in the collaborative editing of shared bibliographic records.
Read MoreSophia Search Uses Semiotic Approach
Sophia Search brings a different approach to searching information in the enterprise to market in the form of a search engine tool that understands the relationship between related sets of content. Rather than taking the approach to indexing that relies on taxonomy and ontology, Sophia search engine relies on a Contextual Discovery Engine.
Read MoreFinding Operational Business Intelligence in Unstructured Data
The unregulated growth of unstructured data has left many companies with terabytes of valuable business information locked inside obsolete data sitting idly by sucking up resources instead of providing revenue producing information. Digitiliti, Inc. finds the value of corporate data and transforms it into beneficial, contributing data.
Read MoreFairview Research Acquires IFI Patent Intelligence
Fairview Research has acquired IFI Patent Intelligence from Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions. IFI is the leading producer of value-added U.S. patent databases and indexing services.
Read MoreCognition Technologies Featured in Semantic Software Research
Cognition Technologies, known for its Semantic Natural Language Processing (NLP) was highlighted in the Gilbane Group’s latest research entitled Semantic Software Technologies: Landscape of High Value Applications for the Enterprise.
Read MoreNo Contenders in the Web Indexing Awards
The Web Indexing Special Interest Group of the American Society for Indexing annually awards a deserving indexer the annual Web Indexing SIG Award for excellence in web site indexing. This is done to encourage high quality web site indexes and to promote the web indexing work of professional indexers. Surprisingly, there were no 2010 winners “due to a lack of quality submissions.”
Read MoreCensored Indexing Attempts to Filter Out Sin
A number of new Internet search engines created by religious entities seek to filter out queries from Web users censoring what they deem as inappropriate findings.
Read MorePeer39 Partners with AppNexus
Peer39, known for their semantic advertising solutions, announced integration of the company’s semantic targeting capabilities with AppNexus, the real-time advertising platform for ad networks, demand-side platforms, trading desks, and other leading online advertising companies.
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