The Social Media Command Center from InTTENSITY is a service software that provides access for users to view their search/filter information and utilize it to make decisions based on the social media information found on the Internet.
Tagged has announced an acquisition of Topicmarks. Tagged is the social discovery service and Topicmarks uses semantic engine to summarize content. The combination of these two should be interesting.
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and Publishing Technology have joined efforts to create a digital platform to host all of the organization’s published authoritative content online.
Another new search engine? Yes that is doubt you read in my words. It seems there are new ones popping up all the time lately, and it is not like there is a real need out there, i.e. Google, Bing, etc. However, the latest contender was developed by Massimo Marchiori, who also created HyperSearch. The new product, Volunia, will be available in 12 languages when it does launch, but the creator promises it to be different in many ways, and not just another Google.
Search has changed over the past few years. No longer is it just straight forward finding of your entered terms. It has changed to a relevance-powered search and retail marketing is the driving force.
A new app combines semantic knowledge resources and technologies, such as a biomedical knowledge base, a semantic search engine, a distributed search engine, and a variety of smart content analysis and discovery services. The NLMplus can concurrently access 60 National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases, with a simple Google/Bing like user interface.
FACT-Finder Travel is a new semantic search system that targets online travel agents. By allowing users to enter free text during search and interpreting what users are looking for, the company seeks to garner a following among online travel agencies. The system interprets what users are looking for and populates search criteria boxes with the correct information.
Q-Sensei has released an application programming interface (API) to embed its multi-dimensional search technology in any website or application. Search technologies have failed to produce comprehensive search results with ease. Q-Sensei’s new search multi-dimensional search analyzes the results and presents them in a comprehensive, organized index.
EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has advanced its multilingual support by introducing two new German-Language search enhancements — an improved umlaut search and increased support for variants.
A new search engine plans to do battle with the giants, i.e. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. YaCy plans to put the search into the hands of users by giving out its indexing engine around the Internet for free.