Posts Tagged ‘Search’
Measuring Accuracy in Search
When people talk about how accurate the search is, there are lots of different ways to measure that. This list indicates some of the ways that we talk about measuring accuracy.
Read MoreSemantic Search Match-Up
A known semantic search technology provider, hakai, recently announced it has licensed their product, hakia Enterprise Semantic Search (HESS), to a Flow.
Read MoreHow Search Works
Search has many parts. The parts of search are moving parts and every system does it a little differently. There’s the search software, based on one of two major camps. Then, there’s the computer network that it’s riding on. Then, there’s the way that the text is parsed, which is not always the same.
Read MoreSocial, Search, and Semantics
Jetlore is launching a platform designed to power the development of a social application. This sets a new path from the past when developers would have to basically reinvent the wheel over and over again.
Read MoreBeefing Up the Search
Search Technologies recently announced they offer two new services for Google Search Appliance users. The Entity Recognition Assessment and Sensitive Data Assessment Services beef up their line of technology dedicated to enterprise search implementation.
Read MoreSearch Engines and Related Tools
A search engine is different from search software. The terms are used interchangeably by people, but they are not the same. Search software is an application – a bunch of codes – and a search engine is a collection of servers with a lot of data on it that is indexing the Internet and delivering it by HTML pages to customers. It is doing that by spidering around to get the information, usually from those metaname headers, and now increasingly from full text and putting that information up and comparing it, searching it. You all have some idea of how Google, Lycos, Bing, and all those other ones work, so you know what happens here. Again, a search engine is different from search software.
Read MoreSemantic Search Provides Results
Getting search results that include more advertisements than results can be very aggravating. This is only getting worse as semantic search continues to evolve. The search engine takes into consideration other robust content they discern we are interested in and include it in the results.
Read MoreSemantic Search Continues to Advance
IHS has acquired Invention Machine, a leader in semantic search technology. Their patented semantic question-answering software engine provides findability in an efficient manner for engineers and knowledge workers.
Read MoreNew Databases Added
EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has added three anthropology databases to the EBSCOhost® platform. The three databases are Anthropological Index, Anthropological Literature, and Anthropology Plus, that obviously cover the fields of anthropology, archaeology and related interdisciplinary research.
Read MoreSharePoint and Search
Concept Searching recently announced that its core products – conceptSearch and conceptClassifier – are prepared for SharePoint 2013.
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