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Web Content Has Improved
With all the talk about Web 2.0 and looking towards Web 3.0 of late, has the fact that the information available on the web has become more comprehensive and detailed gotten lost? The focus has been about social sharing, collaboration and user-generated content.
Read MoreNew Integration Increases Findability
EBSCO Publishing and Innovative Interfaces, Inc. have expanded their collaboration by enabling a more tightly integrated access between EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) and Innovative’s Encore discovery platform.
Read MoreMAVIS Breaking Walls in Technology
Real-time, speaker-independent, automatic speech recognition was a focus of Microsoft Research, and the result produced the Deep-Neural-Network Speech Recognition based MAVIS. MAVIS (Microsoft Audio Video Indexing Service) indexes audio and video content and then allows users to search for a particular word or phrase across the entire content.
Read MoreQuantum Addresses Large e-Discovery Project
Quantum Discovery recently assisted a Top 100 Law Firm on an e-discovery project and document review with a data set containing approximately 415GB of email and network data. The approximately 2 million records could easily have overwhelmed any team using the traditional search term approach, but Quantum Discovery utilized Lateral Data’s Viewpoint TAR (Technology Assisted Review).
Read MoreFindability with Semantic Search
We have all read the continued news stream regarding semantic technology and its venture into the world of search. Google’s recent announcement regarding KnowledgeGraph is a great example. This move away from straightforward keyword search to a semantic approach seems to seek a better understanding of the users’ queries meaning.
Read MoreMerger Has Potential To Change Search
Yippy, Inc. has entered into an agreement to merge with MuseGlobal, a leading provider of content integration and data virtualization services. This combination of search and content integration professionals has the potential of providing a range of resources, few others, including big players like Google or Microsoft, possess. The combined companies will create an information cloud that could represent a significant shift in the business of enterprise search.
Read MoreHas Semantic Search Changed the Price of Search?
History has tried to tell us that paying for search rankings is a very bad thing. However, it is interesting that Google has begun to accept payments for inclusion in some of its newest search products. This was evident recently with its Google Hotel Finder and Google Flight Search, where Google looks to be taking some kind of payment in order to be included in the results. This is also evident with Google Advisor, which offers links to financial services and products.
Read MoreRiak Handbook Available, Again
Basho Technologies has made available the second edition of Riak Handbook. This version includes more than 43 pages of new content covering many of the latest feature enhancements to the open-source database, Riak.
Read MoreDoes the Semantic Web Exist?
With Apple’s Siri and Kngine responding to both written and spoken questions with text, pictures, graphs, and images, it is hard to argue that the semantic web is any longer a pipe dream. Yet, there are those that are doing just that.
Read MoreMore Findability Made Possible
Using EBSCO Discovery Service from EBSCO Publishing, the Freedonia Group’s Focus Reports Collection providing, US, World and International, country specific market research will now be searchable.
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