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Google of Audio Digitizing
One-half million audio recordings have been digitized by Memnon Archiving Systems relying on NOA systems. NOA systems support multiple Memnon projects, including migration of 250,000 digital audio tapes for Danish Radio and 350,000 CDs for BnF.
Read MorePatent Awarded to Guid
The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Guid with a patent for its method of helping organizations quickly and efficiently search for data within the corporate universe. This system is better known as EnCase(R) Enterprise.
Read MoreGoogle’s Latest Release Promises Higher Employee Productivity
Google has unveiled version 6.8 of the new Google Search Appliance (GSA) for enterprises. This latest release offers customizable search functionality for an intranet or web site.
Read MoreBOSS 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.
Read MoreThree 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.
Read MoreInformation 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.
Read MoreThe 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?
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 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 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.
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