It seems with mobile phones these days, smaller is better. But with the size decreasing, finding the information you need becomes a challenge. Never fear, there is a new technology emerging that helps users find information without having to fiddle with tiny keyboards or have blisters due to scrolling over and over. This new technology is voice search.
Caringo, known for providing object storage software for digital content, has announced a partnership with Perfect Search to provide mutual customers with a solution for the precise search of objects stored in Caringo object storage software (CAStor).
Oxford Medicine Online has launched Oxford Medical Libraries Online, a new resource that offers a collection of subject-based libraries containing over 50 invaluable short guides.
Only a few months after accusing Microsoft’s Bing of copying their search results, Google was found to be indexing millions of image thumbnails from Microsoft’s Bing search engine.
A recent TED presentation is by Eli Pariser. He is the author of “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You.” A new and very interesting book. His talk is a synopsis of how the Google personalization algorithms effect search results. Google results are influenced by your own search history and other online activity. Any system such as Amazon, Yahoo, Bing ebay shopping systems depend heavily on personalization to serve you results. Traditional databases do not use profiles (yet) but they are often based on Verity, Vivisimo, Autonomy, Fast and other mathematically based search software so they could and they do serve up different results whenever the vectors are reset - that is every time additional data is added to the system with updates or metadata enrichment.
Ontology Systems, best known for their semantic search technology, has released Ontology 3. Previously known as OSS/CAD and now in its third generation, the new release focuses on the user experience.
Mindseye Solutions has announced the first of two major releases. Included in these releases are Flexible Search and a number of significant improvements to the handling of Lotus Notes.
Search engines often fail when it comes to discerning intent. Searchers want information about things and search engines are looking for documents. But with the help of semantic technology, this is changing.