BOSS Going To A Fee-Based Model

Yahoo’s BOSS platform lets external developers build custom search engines on top of the company’s search infrastructure and the latest news is it will shift to a fee-based model in early 2011. In its new version, BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) will also give developers various options to generate revenue.

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Three New Search Applications From NextBio

Knowledge locked within public and proprietary data will now be easier to share thanks to a new platform called Elsevier SciVerse. NextBio, the provider, has touted this as an innovative new platform that integrates Elsevier’s key products and encourages those in the scientific community to share and collaborate on the development search and discovery applications.

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Information Overload – Too Much Of A Good Thing?

Everyone has seen the commercial on television. Someone asks a simple question, and then everyone in the crowd starts spewing forth all these facts that have been found via the Internet. This makes for some very clever and funny advertising, but let’s face it. Information overload is a real problem.

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The Relevance of Taxonomies

In this world of real time search and respond, one has to wonder if the traditional library information sources’ reliance on controlled vocabularies remains a viable, worthwhile, and cost-effective strategy. What about enterprise search? How important are they in this world of keyword search?

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Happy 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.

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Sophia 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.

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