Search – Page 37 – Taxodiary

Expanding the Search

By Melody Smith | August 5, 2013

Alexander Street Press has updated its search interface with semantic facet browsing or more commonly known as an algorithm to identify categories of interest from a single keyword. With this new feature, results are returned pertaining to the keyword even if the keyword is not in the title of the resource.

Setting It Up For Success

By Melody Smith | July 24, 2013

Recently, Coveo announced that its advanced search application, Coveo for Salesforce, is now available on the Salesforce.com AppExchange. This product enables instant indexing of Salesforce Knowledge, SharePoint Online (Beta Connector) and Chatter Answers.

When Semantic Technology Gets Here

By Melody Smith | July 23, 2013

Semantic technology is weaving its way through every part of our lives. It assists in creating dynamic and comprehensive search results by using natural language processing to determine the meaning and context, just not the words in a search field. Now Google is taking semantic search into the social media world. The social activity adds another level of context on the premise that the most desirable product is the one that is usually talked about the most.

How the Semantic Web Has Changed Us

By Melody Smith | July 11, 2013

The web changes daily and how we are or aren’t changing with it is the topic of an interesting discussion brought to us by Balkans Business News. The article titled, “David Amerland – Helpmyseo.com Founder, SEO / Social Media Consultant, and Author of Google Semantic Search”, used a question and answer format to discuss the semantic web and what it means for the world of technology.

Delivering Results

By Melody Smith | July 9, 2013

Provider of semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy managment sofware, Concept Searching, is celebrating a revenue growth of 40% for the first half of fiscal 2013. This is compared to the same period in 2012.

Awards for Semantic Technology

By Melody Smith | July 8, 2013

Google has awarded over $1.2 million to support research in several areas of several natural language understanding that relate to Google’s concept of the Knowledge Graph. This substantial investment in machine learning is motivated by their need to further search technology.

Speed is a Luxury

By Melody Smith | July 4, 2013

When you are dealing with data measured in terabytes and petabytes, it is difficult to imagine how you manage such a volume. This size of data has its own ecosystem. Signal Online brought this interesting information our direction in their article, “Dealing with Big Data Takes an Ecosystem.”

Recognition for Semantic Technology

By Melody Smith | June 27, 2013

FeedBooster has been awarded a “Best Of 2013″ solution in Knowledge Management by Initiative Mittelstand. FeedBooster’s web-based feed reader is powered by Q-Sensei’s search and indexing technology.

EBSCO Adds Databases

By Melody Smith | June 24, 2013

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) has added content from Arabic content service provider Al Manhal. This includes ebooks, ejournals, e-reports, and e-dissertations databases.

The Reach of the Semantic Search

By Melody Smith | June 14, 2013

Remember last year when Google released the Knowledge Graph and everyone was buzzing about what that meant for the future of semantic technology? Well, now is the future; how did it affect you? This interesting topic was found on Search Engine Journal in their article, “Semantic Web: Are You Taking Advantage of Semantic Search?”