The other day Abe received in the mail the document from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granting us a trademark and service mark on the multilingual version of Explorit®, our federated search system. As any of you who have filed patents, trademarks or service marks surely know, the process is arduous and time [...]
There’s an NFAIS draft Discovery Service Code of Practice that’s up for review. The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™) is releasing a draft Discovery Service Code of Practice for review and comment by March 16, 2012. NFAIS believes that discovery services have the potential to provide ease of information discovery, access, and use, [...]
As is usual for me I’m up early this morning after the three day Memorial Day weekend, going through my Biznar Alerts, and I run into this interesting blog post: Net Neutrality and Federating Searching Jake, a librarian in the D.C. area and beer aficionado (he’s the beerbrarian), writes on how the neutrality of federated [...]
In this “Best of” article I take a look at an article from the Federated Search Blog archives. I wrote “The trouble with general search engines” in 2008. The message of the article is as true today as it was three years ago: the big search engines aren’t good enough for business research (nor for [...]
Welcome to the second edition of “Best of the Federated Search Blog.” In this series I pull articles out of the Federated Search Blog archive and comment on them for the benefit of those considering Deep Web Technologies‘ offerings. In March, 2008 I explored the “incremental results” feature which Deep Web Technologies makes available in [...]
Welcome to “The Best of the Federated Search Blog.” In this ongoing series I will be commenting on classic articles that I have authored for the Federated Search Blog. I aim to focus on the relevance of the article to current and prospective customers of Deep Web Technologies. In this first “Best of” article, Diagnosing [...]
Paul Albert Senior Software Developer: Nov 1st Paul graces Deep Web Technologies with a B.S. in Mathematics from The University of Vermont, a M.S. in Computer Science from John Hopkin’s University in Baltimore, and 17 years of software development experience. The team he works with is constantly predicting needs and trends in the marketplace to [...]
Deep Web Technologies has a soft spot for fuzzy creatures. This is the newest member of our team, Arthur the mighty black bear. We received the letter, below, last week commemorating Arthur’s release into the wild. Of course, this was after plumping himself on porridge in preparation for the winter. We have not found any real work for Arthur [...]
Deep Web Technologies is buzzing with new ideas, thoughts and blog posts thanks to our new Business Development Coordinator, Nicholas Canafax. December 1st marks the official start of Nick’s career here at Deep Web Tech, although he served as an intern for a short two months before we said, “Nick, we simply can’t live without [...]
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an over-used intro! We wanted to let all of our readers know that we will be attending the ALA 2011 Midwinter Meeting, January 7-11. The Midwinter Meeting is in sunny San Diego, CA at the San Diego Convention Center. Our President Abe Lederman said, “We will be meeting with some of [...]
