Posts Tagged ‘Search’
Baby Name Database Launched
A new baby name portal has been launched using a flexible and user-friendly search interface. Babynology provides additional details including background, meaning and usage patterns.
Read MoreNot True!
The Autonomy folks must be getting worried about the progress of taxonomy applications and the precision and recall that such systems provide. Autonomy and Google live on relevance rankings as the return to the user. Relevance to me is a confidence game. It is the best guess of the system as to whether the results returned will actually match the user’s request. If you have a big enough data set returned, certainly something in there will be useful. But the sheer amount of items the user has to review (or amount of noise they have to look at) is very annoying. So they rank the returns by relevance based on a number of statistical factors so the most likely items based on co-occurrence with terms matches and near matches will appear at the top of the list – that is, they will be relevance ranked.
Read MoreLucid Imagination Joins the SharePoint Crowd
In a familiar story, we learned that Lucid Imagination released an update to their LucidWorks Enterprise product this week that includes a way of connecting the search tool directly to SharePoint repositories.
Read MoreBig Data, Big Challenges
Everyone seems to be addressing the challenges of data – managing it, handling it, storing it. However, for startups that challenge is even more daunting.
Read MoreTime for the Turf War to End
There has been a long time competition, war, or some battle of sorts between website usability and search engine optimization. Each side argues that they know best how to make web pages findable in search engines. The irony? They are both right.
Read MoreSemantic Search Technology Awarded a Patent
Expert System has been awarded a patient by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its Cogito® semantic platform. The patient safeguards Cogito, which relies on deep linguistic analysis and semantic disambiguation of text to ensure a complete understanding of a text without the use of statistics or keyword based technologies.
Read MoreNew Acquisition Beefs up Semantic Search
Intertainment Media Inc. has agreed to buy mobile software and app developer Commobility Inc.
Read MoreEDS and World Book Team Up
A recent agreement between EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and World Book will bring twelve popular reference tools into EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Metadata, including full-text searching, will be added to the EDS Base Index allowing the World Book content to better impact searching through the EDS single search interface. The twelve World Book resources that will be searchable in EDS include popular English language titles as well as French and Spanish language reference tools.
Read MoreEQUELLA Seeks to Meet the Needs of Educators
Pearson has released EQUELLA® 5, the latest version of digital repository that enables users to search, create and manage content online.
Read MoreClarity in Chaos
Information architecture is on the forefront lately, whether we realize it or not. The history-making revolts against middle eastern governments has spurred massive amounts of data, and confusion.
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