Google and Bing Back At It
Only a few months after accusing Microsoft’s Bing of copying their search results, Google was found to be indexing millions of image thumbnails from Microsoft’s Bing search engine.
Read MoreDigital Library Smackdown
The Digital Public Library of America initiative has created a lively debate on the DPLA’s discussion listserv about how any such institution should be constituted. David H. Rothman, cofounder of LibraryCity.org and founder of TeleRead, has been advocating for well-stocked national digital libraries for many years and is an active participant on the listserv.
Read MoreThe Age of the New Portal
Not so long ago, every organization wanted a portal to keep up with The Jones, or the Microsofts, as the case may be. Because of this, the quality of portals went downhill as did their promise results. What you are left with are organizations struggling to provide appropriate access to portlets and organizations with poor taxonomy and metadata practices importing its content only to find illegible titles and search indexes.
Read MoreMetaVis Works to Improve Findability
MetaVis Technologies has announced the availability of MetaVis Information Manager for SharePoint 2010, which enables users to bulk import, copy and classify content directly from the SharePoint user interface.
Read MoreSearch as Big Brother, Molding What You See and Think
A recent TED presentation is by Eli Pariser. He is the author of “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You.” A new and very interesting book. His talk is a synopsis of how the Google personalization algorithms effect search results. Google results are influenced by your own search history and other online activity. Any system such as Amazon, Yahoo, Bing ebay shopping systems depend heavily on personalization to serve you results. Traditional databases do not use profiles (yet) but they are often based on Verity, Vivisimo, Autonomy, Fast and other mathematically based search software so they could and they do serve up different results whenever the vectors are reset – that is every time additional data is added to the system with updates or metadata enrichment.
Read MoreTaxonomy Used to Diagnose
The American Society of Hypertension, Inc. (ASH) and the ASH Specialist Program Inc. has announced the approval of an official health care taxonomy code for Designated Specialists in Clinical Hypertension from the American Medical Association National Uniform Claims Committee.
Read MoreHIGHFLEET’s Latest Release Finds New Uses
HIGHFLEET has announced the release of the latest version of its eXtensible Knowledge Server (XKS) ontology-based deductive database. This new release professes to have the only advanced, scalable first order logic-based deductive database that continues to find new uses.
Read MoreStandards and Taxonomies – Match Made in Heaven
Manually wading through unstructured, textual data archives to find documents to answer questions can be slow and expensive. New SAS Industry Taxonomy Rules starter kits recently announced by SAS, improve the time to value from the automatic classification of unstructured, textual data and from text analytics efforts as a whole.
Read MoreLike It Or Not
Social media and privacy have never been friends. The advance of semantic technology has only made this more relevant. For example, Microsoft’s Bing search engine can now tell you what your friends “Like”. And some think that isn’t very nice.
Read MoreAutonomy’s Latest Purchase Maximizes Data
Autonomy plans to purchase certain assets of Iron Mountain Digital which, when combined with Autonomy’s operations, has the potential for building a very large data cloud.
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