The Federated Search Blog brings an important set of observations about search to our attention. Search pundit Avi Rappoport makes it clear that it’s not so clear that discovery services are the holy grail of search nor the answer to everybody’s search problem. Search is complicated. As Sol Lederman writes in the Federated Search Blog [...]
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 [...]
In a follow-up to a previous article, Barbara Quint, the editor-in-chief of Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals and columnist for Information Today, interviewed Deep Web Technologies’ President and CEO Abe Lederman about the promises and challenges of federated search. Check out the excerpt below for a look at this enlightening conversation regarding the future [...]
[ 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 [...]
There is one supremely important aspect of search quality: Meta Data. Search quality is highly dependent on high quality meta data in both federated search solutions and meta data repositories like Summon or other unified index services. When considering sources to search in either a meta data index or a federated search, looking at the [...]
Post republished with permission from the Federated Search Blog. Ken Varnum, Web Systems Manager at the University of Michigan Library, won first prize of $1,000 in the second annual Federated Search Blog contest. Ken’s essay, Project Lefty: More Bang for the Search Query, was judged best by the five federated search experts who evaluated the [...]
A couple of weeks ago, as part of my early morning ritual of going through my Biznar Alerts (I have a dozen alerts setup that track any mention of “federated search”, the “deep web”, competitors and sites that we’ve developed) I got an interesting alert on my “federated search” profile. Biznar had emailed me a [...]
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 [...]
I liked reading the DaVinci code, Dan Brown’s fictional mystery novel, so thought I’d give his newest bestseller a try. The Lost Symbol deals with codes and puzzles as you’d expect, but much to my surprise one of the main characters in the book, Katherine Solomon, asks Trish Dunne, a “metasystems” programmer, to do a [...]
