Monster has long been associated with recruiting, job search applications and connecting people with job opportunities. They are expanding that reach with the launch of SeeMore in France. SeeMore is a semantic search and workforce analytics recruitment platform. This will be the first of its kind in France.
Ixxus is contributing a new tool that integrates the faceted search capabilities of Apache Solr into Alfresco 4. CMS Critic brought this news to our attention in their article, “New Alfresco Faceted Search by Ixxus Delivers Enhanced Enterprise Content Search.” This new addition will assist Alfresco in fulfilling the ‘Smart Search’ requirements of its 2012 Product Road Map. Other benefits will include enhanced functionality and discoverability using metadata-driven, faceted searching. The new faceted search will greatly improve the discoverability of content and search results.
Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have designed a search engine that indexes specific sets of databases to help identify rare diseases. FindZebra.com […]
Concept Searching and Smartonix have entered into a partnership agreement that will bring semantic metadata generation, taxonomy management, and enterprise-class solutions together.
A new software product by BloomReach, Dynamic Duplication Reduction (DDR), seeks to resolve a constant challenge – duplicate content issues on web sites.
Siri is fun to play with - ask her what the meaning of life is sometime - but I am still not sure she offers real, usable information that a quick internet search wouldn't give me, and I wouldn't have to repeat three times. However, people like Tim Berners-Lee dream of a time when you could ask inocuious questions like where to take your spouse for dinner and receive a response based on natural language processing and what I call insight. Insight into the food preferences of both you and your spouse, restaurants nearby and their table availability. The latter two are not as difficult, but insight would be an achievement that most men would like to possess on their own.
The two giants of social media have always been Facebook and Twitter. A recent change on Facebook's part looks an awful lot like a Twitter tradition. Looking to improve its search and indexing capabilities, Facebook is now adding the hashtag symbol. Admittedly, many users have brought that habit with them from Twitter but for it to be embraced by the rival giant is interesting, to say the least.
Last year Google released Knowledge Graph, a database of over 570 million items of information. This was their demonstration of what a semantic search engine and structured data could bring to the table.