Filtering results is as much an art as a science. Refining or clarifying an initial set of search results is a fairly common practice among search engine users that don’t know exactly what they are looking for. Yet in federated searching, refining a group of results is often not the best strategy for a user to find [...]
One of the critical problems in federated searching is de-duplication of results. Many sources contain the same journal articles and, clearly, presenting the same result multiple times isn’t useful to users. To solve this thorny problem, Deep Web Technologies has taken a flexible and configurable approach to de-duplication. The Explorit application de-dupes on multiple fields to [...]
As the product manager here at Deep Web Technologies, I oversee product feature development. I spend my time working with software developers, our application engineers, marketing folks, our customers and our partners to help design our next-generation SAAS (Software as a Service) product as well as refine our current products. As we go through our [...]
Until 2008, Dialog was formerly part of Thomson Scientific, itself a unit of financial information giant Thomson Reuters. Westlaw, a part of West Publishing, itself another unit of Thomson Reuters, had therefore been able to provide Dialog’s powerful database of sources (which include 900 databases of intellectual property), to its large group of professional subscribers. [...]
When conducting a Deep Web search, one of the common problems is understanding and optimizing queries. Most deep web search engines are federated which means the query is passed simultaneously to multiple engines. If the federated search provider has done their job, then the query should seamlessly match to the logic of the native interface. [...]
