One of the critical problems in federated searching is de-duplication of results. Many sources contain the same journal articles and, clearly, presenting the same result multiple times isn’t useful to users. To solve this thorny problem, Deep Web Technologies has taken a flexible and configurable approach to de-duplication. The Explorit application de-dupes on multiple fields to [...]
This afternoon, I put aside an hour from yet another hectic day to read Dr. Walter Warnick’s article, “Federated Search as a Transformational Technology Enabling Knowledge Discovery: the Role of WorldWideScience.org.” This article by Dr. Warnick–or Walt to me–presents a wonderful overview of OSTI’s mission dating all the way back to 1947. OSTI (Department of Energy [...]
It was an honor to attend and for my company to have played a key role in the launch of multilingual WorldWideScience.org in Helsinki this past June 11th. Beginning more than three years ago, the R&D effort that ultimately resulted in the launch of our ground-breaking multilingual federated search capability involved plenty of hard work [...]
One of the most interesting features of our Explorit search product is our clustering engine, which analyzes results and produces “clusters” that represent a new and powerful way to navigate search results. The true power of these clusters is often overlooked, for they superficially resemble the output generated by the keyword-based systems and fixed taxonomies [...]
[ Editor's note: This article first appeared in the OSTI Blog and then in the Federated Search Blog. Dr. Walt Warnick, Director of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, part of DOE, and Sol Lederman co-authored the article. For some important search applications there is no alternative to federated.] Discovery services have begun to [...]
Abe Lederman, our company President recently presented on Multilingual Search at the NFAIS conference yesterday. His talk, entitled “Federated Search: Breaking Down the Language Barrier” addressed the development of translation tools on the web, and how Deep Web Technologies is supporting to organizations find and deliver the most relevant results, regardless of language. The presentation [...]
Many people are familiar with Google’s homepages, and the “themes” option where users can customize the look and feel of their homepage with gadgets and skins to make it feel more personalized. In our new federated search application, Deep Web Technologies will have a theming page, where administrators can select a theme for their search [...]
Software as a Service, otherwise known as SaaS is quickly becoming THE standard for purchasing software solutions. Systems such as Google Apps, Salesforce and Constant Contact have helped exponentially increase the popularity of the SaaS application delivery model. Deep Web Technologies is undergoing an intense engineering effort to deliver our best in class federated search [...]
Earlier this year, Deep Web Technologies announced the development of a multilingual translation capability. Since then, we’ve been talking with a number of people regarding this groundbreaking service that will be released in 2010. Don DePalma, Chief Research Officer at Common Sense Advisory wrote a post on the 17th of December about this feature. Please [...]
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 [...]
