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New Travel Search System Released
FACT-Finder Travel is a new semantic search system that targets online travel agents. By allowing users to enter free text during search and interpreting what users are looking for, the company seeks to garner a following among online travel agencies. The system interprets what users are looking for and populates search criteria boxes with the correct information.
Read MoreMulti-Dimensional Search Technology Released
Q-Sensei has released an application programming interface (API) to embed its multi-dimensional search technology in any website or application. Search technologies have failed to produce comprehensive search results with ease. Q-Sensei’s new search multi-dimensional search analyzes the results and presents them in a comprehensive, organized index.
Read MoreEBSCO Releases German Language Search Features
EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has advanced its multilingual support by introducing two new German-Language search enhancements — an improved umlaut search and increased support for variants.
Read MoreNew Do It Yourself Search Engine
A new search engine plans to do battle with the giants, i.e. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. YaCy plans to put the search into the hands of users by giving out its indexing engine around the Internet for free.
Read MoreSemantic Search Assists Recruiters in Their Work
CareerOne has released the SeeMore platform with the first cloud-based semantic search and analytics platform. This product enables the user to take the technology and apply it over all their databases.
Read MoreNexidia Announced New Software
Nexidia announced a new software development environment, Nexidia Search GRID, that can provide a streamlined architecture for developers to integrate Nexidia technology using the latest web-services interfaces. A significant breakthrough in its core phonetic indexing and search technology will provide improved functionality for all Nexidia customers and development partners.
Read MoreNew Online Research Tool Features
Elsevier has released new features for its online research tool BrainNavigator. In this new version, BrainNavigator 3.2, Elsevier added new content and functionality to give researchers additional tools to accelerate their research.
Read MoreThe Need for a Taxonomy
Many sophisticated semantic search tools build ontologies and taxonomies to organize the data. David Patterson, the co-founder and CEO of Sophia Search, doesn’t think this is necessary and seeks freedom from taxonomies or ontologies.
Read MoreSemantic Search in Ontologies
One of the important components of many bioinformatic algorithms are semantic similarity searches in ontologies. There are, unfortunately, no algorithms for computing the exact distribution of semantic similarity scores.
Read MoreGoogle Can Now Search Facebook Comments
A new and fairly significant development from the social media world is that Google is now searching and indexing public comments made on Facebook. This has some people and business concerned due to page ranking implications.
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