**(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 [...]
Deep Web Tech would like to celebrate this Thanksgiving with some mind-bending statistics. 13.8 pounds of turkey are consumed by the average American each year, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. 242 million turkeys were raised in the United States in 2010, down 2 percent from the prior year. While the total number of [...]
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 [...]
Deep Web Technologies just got a little more intelligent! We would like to welcome Yu Hong Qin, the newest member to our Quality Assurance (QA) Department, since September 1st! Hailing all the way from Qing Dao, China, Yu Hong Qin has graced Deep Web Tech with her supercharged brain power; a Master’s Degree in Economics from University [...]
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: [...]
Deep Web Technologies just got a little more friendly! We would like to welcome the newest member of our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Team! With a bachelor’s degree in Management, Audra Berning, Publisher Relations Coordinator, has a solid track record of building and maintaining professional relationships. She is a fantastic and engaging individual that can [...]
Deep Web Technologies would like to welcome the newest member to our sales team! Look at that shining face! Bryce Montaño, a Santa Fe local, is a University of New Mexico student attending his third year in the Management of Information Systems (MIS) program. Bryce joined our team on September 27th and has made quite [...]
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 [...]
Last night, I treated myself … no, I indulged myself … to a 30 minute hot tub under the stars. Alone, in my backyard, I stood looking up at the moon, and I was really struck by the contrast sitting in front of me: The moon, sitting motionless above me and my hot tub, travels [...]
