Deep Web Technologies’ President, Abe Lederman will be attending the 2011 Charleston Conference this year in…you guessed it… Charleston, South Carolina. The annual Charleston Conference hosts a variety of appealing activities but before you do anything, please be sure to dig into your conference bag for your free copy of the Charleston Advisor. Inside you will [...]
Sometimes when I lie in bed with the dream of federating 1,000,000,000 sources dancing around in my mind, I often wonder, “What’s the best search engine?”. I suppose that depends on who (or what) you seek. The Internet is the largest collection of information that has ever been amassed, leading us to need better search [...]
**(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 [...]
Last week (on November 23rd) Sol wrote an article for the Federated Search Blog, Beyond search results bias, which raises the concern over search result bias by Google and by discovery services. Sol refers to the allegation by Harvard Professor Benjamin Edelman that Google is biasing some of its search results by first displaying results [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Peter Krasilovsky of the Newspaper Association of America just posted an article regarding the value of web-based search to newspaper organizations (read the article). In the article, he very briefly discusses federated search and the value to newspapers. He says, “A near relative of enterprise search is federated search. It is an effort to collect [...]
Note: This post by Abe Lederman (President and CTO of Deep Web Technologies) was originally published on the Federated Search Blog on January 3, 2009. I can’t believe that a whole year has gone by since my first Year in Review post. A lot has happened in 2008. In this post I’d like to highlight [...]
