Discovery Services: Over-Hyped and Under-Performed *updated*

**(12/2/2010) Updated section “Full-text or metadata only” This blog article is written by Abe Lederman, President and CTO of Deep Web Technologies: A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending the Charleston Conference. It was my first time attending this conference and also my first time in Charleston, South Carolina, a city [...]

Exit Stage Right– WebFeat. Center Stage– Explorit

SWITCH TO DEEP WEB TECHNOLOGIES AND SAVE THOUSANDS Deep Web Technologies is offering a unique chance to replace  existing WebFeat installations. The catch? You must be willing to save over $3,800 on next-generation federated search for your library!  Now, with Deep Web Technologies next-generation federated search, you can go deeper and faster than you have [...]

Deep Web Tech Returns Home– Interns Exhale

Abe and Andy came home from their Charleston and D.C. trip to find the coffee maker had been replaced with a Mountain Dew dispenser, and new employees were being inducted into the company by a dodge ball firing squad. Maybe they left the interns alone too long… The trips went off without a hitch (see “Going the [...]

Going the Distance: Deep Web Takes Flight

Deep Web Technologies is tearing away from our countless hours of work slaying technology problems, deep in the heart of Santa Fe, to hit the road! Don’t worry– we didn’t tell our interns so at least someone will be there to check the mail, feed our fish, and rebuild the super computer. Itinerary:     [...]

Choice’s Choice, When Choosing How To Search For Science

Say that five times, fast. ScienceResearch.com received some positive attention from TCCLibraryblog.blogspot.com (TCCL) and Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Choice) this week, in the form of an informative review on the features and functionality of ScienceResearch.com and an award, respectively. For those individuals that have not seen for themselves, ScienceResearch.com uses our federated search [...]

Less Google– More Search: Mednar Named in Top 10 Best Specialized Search Engines

Let’s be honest, who doesn’t like top 10 lists? VH1 was practically built on this idea. Top10tag.com is a website committed to taking the most bizarre, high-quality products and service reviews, links to most amazing websites, innovative and useful tools, interesting and fun stuff, and putting it all together in an easy-to-read top 10 list. [...]

Reaching Valuable Resources in the Government

Deep Web Technologies works closely with the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) to provide high-quality federated search applications for public use. We’re excited to see Tim Byrne of OSTI presenting at the Federal Depository Library Conference, Monday, October 18, 2010, from 9:15 to 10:00 AM in Arlington, VA.  Here’s the abstract: Federated [...]

Less Books, not Bookless

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. [...]

Smart People Love Federated Search

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 [...]

World Globetrotting – A Visit With Our Partner Systems Link

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 [...]