New Do It Yourself Search Engine

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.

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Nexidia Announced New Software

Nexidia announced a new software development environment, Nexidia Search GRID, that can provide a streamlined architecture for developers to integrate Nexidia technology using the latest web-services interfaces. A significant breakthrough in its core phonetic indexing and search technology will provide improved functionality for all Nexidia customers and development partners.

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New Online Research Tool Features

Elsevier has released new features for its online research tool BrainNavigator. In this new version, BrainNavigator 3.2, Elsevier added new content and functionality to give researchers additional tools to accelerate their research.

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The Need for a Taxonomy

Many sophisticated semantic search tools build ontologies and taxonomies to organize the data. David Patterson, the co-founder and CEO of Sophia Search, doesn’t think this is necessary and seeks freedom from taxonomies or ontologies.

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Semantic Search in Ontologies

One of the important components of many bioinformatic algorithms are semantic similarity searches in ontologies. There are, unfortunately, no algorithms for computing the exact distribution of semantic similarity scores.

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Google Can Now Search Facebook Comments

A new and fairly significant development from the social media world is that Google is now searching and indexing public comments made on Facebook. This has some people and business concerned due to page ranking implications.

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Indexing People with People

Search indexing company PeekYou has taken a look at the fifty biggest names in gaming and assigned each a
PeekScore. They wanted to recognize the developers and talent involved in this industry.

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