As the Stanford Engineering Library nears the completion of its move into new facilities, so does its transition from a print-based library into an econtent-based one. According to an article published by the Library Journal, the library has removed more than 85% of its print collection (about 98,000 books and journals) to offsite storage facility. [...]
By now most of us are pretty familiar with the “information overload” problem parodied in Bing’s current advertising campaign. In case you’re not, information overload happens when you naively use a popular search engine expecting to find some specific information, like the real-world fuel economy of a used car you’re thinking of buying, and some [...]
As I mentioned previously in my post on April 15, 2010 I have been doing quite a bit of traveling lately. One of the places I visited was the Dominican Republic for the Systems Link 5th Annual Customer Conference entitled Seminar of Innovation of Technological and Scientific Information. Systems Link sells our federated search solution [...]
Well, Andy isn’t the only globe trotting Deep Web Technologies executive. In this blog post I’d like to tell you about my latest trip, one a bit closer to home, to our nation’s capital. I spent most of last week (April 12 – 15) in the D.C. area at the Computers in Libraries Conference in [...]
This is my first post to the Deep Web Technologies blog. I am the Vice President of Business Development and I joined Deep Web Technologies last September. I was lucky enough over the past six weeks to travel to several different countries visiting customers and partners. My travels took me to the Netherlands, Germany and [...]
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 [...]
Nimish Sawant from LiveMint.com recently published a post on the Deep Web, and some of the services that search it. He points to the differences between Google and other search appliances such as federated search. Nimish raises the most popular search question of our time, “If Google can’t find the data, where exactly is it [...]
Barbara Quint, editor-in-chief of Information Today’s Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals has written yet another dazzling federated search article. “A good federated system imposes a tremendous burden on the builders so the users can feel the search process as effortless.” Indeed, at Deep Web Technologies, that is exactly what we feel we are doing. [...]
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 [...]
This article was written by Sol Lederman and is republished from the Federated Search Blog. Discovery services have begun to spring up. This article is my attempt to catalog and characterize them. Consider this article to be an introduction that sets the stage for future analysis articles. What is a discovery service? A discovery service [...]
