[PRESS RELEASE] Deep Web Technologies’ Federated Search Now Integrates with RefWorks Online

SANTA FE, N.M., July 28, 2009 — Deep Web Technologies’ Federated Search product, Explorit Research Accelerator, now includes seamless integration with RefWorks. Deep Web Technologies has added RefWorks Direct Export support to Explorit, allowing users to select specific results, and have their citations import directly into RefWorks. “RefWorks is one of the premiere web-based solutions [...]

Unranked Results: Not as fun as ranked results …

It’s self-evident that search engines return results. What many people don’t realize, is that search engines return two basic types of results: rank results and relevant results. Ranked results are preferred, because this means the search engine used some algorithm to determine the relative importance of each result from one another and (hopefully) returned a [...]

Strategic Uses for Federated Search, Part 2

Last month, I wrote Strategic Uses for Federated Search, Part 1, which discussed how federated search in marketing and brand management creates a strategic advantage for an organization. Now I’d like to talk (briefly, at least for me) about another area where federated search represents a key strategic advantage: Intellectual property research and litigation. I [...]

Ranking: The Secret Sauce for Searching the Deep Web

One of the most powerful features and benefits of Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Federated Search, is its ability to rank the results from the myriad of collections that might be included in a federated search (a.k.a. deep web search). This is useful for two reasons. First, it helps rank results from sources that don’t otherwise [...]

Article – Diving Deeper into the Deep Web

Deep Web Technologies’ own VP of Professional Services, Brian DeSpain, was interviewed by SemanticWeb.com on the Deep Web.  The article, Diving Deeper into the Deep Web, summarizes our approach to the Deep Web using federated search, as well as the rough spots we encounter – such as scalability.  But SemanticWeb.com also pulled a few things [...]

Search Engines of the Future?

Ian Hardy wrote an interesting article entitled, the search engines of the future, where he said that the search engines of the future will incorporate advanced semantic search, voice search and make better “connections,” as in connecting-the-dots, seeing patterns and recognizing context in all its forms. It’s a quick read, so Mr. Hardy doesn’t have [...]

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