Google has unveiled version 6.8 of the new Google Search Appliance (GSA) for enterprises. This latest release offers customizable search functionality for an intranet or web site.
Yahoo's BOSS platform lets external developers build custom search engines on top of the company's search infrastructure and the latest news is it will shift to a fee-based model in early 2011. In its new version, BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) will also give developers various options to generate revenue.
Knowledge locked within public and proprietary data will now be easier to share thanks to a new platform called Elsevier SciVerse. NextBio, the provider, has touted this as an innovative new platform that integrates Elsevier's key products and encourages those in the scientific community to share and collaborate on the development search and discovery applications.
Everyone has seen the commercial on television. Someone asks a simple question, and then everyone in the crowd starts spewing forth all these facts that have been found via the Internet. This makes for some very clever and funny advertising, but let’s face it. Information overload is a real problem.
In this world of real time search and respond, one has to wonder if the traditional library information sources’ reliance on controlled vocabularies remains a viable, worthwhile, and cost-effective strategy. What about enterprise search? How important are they in this world of keyword search?
10-year project, Charting Change: An Interactive Atlas of Burnaby's Heritage, tied with a Smithsonian Institute project last month for ArchivesNext's award for best repurposing of digitized data. The online project allows visitors to Heritage Burnaby's website to click on and learn about historic locations on each of the maps.
Eight years since the launch of Google News, the information directory continues to grow as one of the company's most important products and the internet's most influential news portal. Google today indexes news from more than 50,000 sources in 30 languages.
Sophia Search brings a different approach to searching information in the enterprise to market in the form of a search engine tool that understands the relationship between related sets of content. Rather than taking the approach to indexing that relies on taxonomy and ontology, Sophia search engine relies on a Contextual Discovery Engine.
A number of new Internet search engines created by religious entities seek to filter out queries from Web users censoring what they deem as inappropriate findings.