Our minds like to be fed with the best information possible! In the case of researchers (academic, medical, business, or others), their works depend on it. Here is a great blog post by Sol Lederman I would like to share. It’s on the topic of information quality vs. information coverage. It really illustrates the importance of search [...]
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 [...]
December 15th, 2010 kicks off Deep Web Technologies’ first webinar installment! Titled: “Explorit Federated Search Key Differentiators” Interested parties will have the option to sign up for different dates, depending on your convenience. Our webinars typically last 30-40 mins, with the last 10 minutes devoted to questions and answers, which means that it will be [...]
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 [...]
One of the interesting features of our own Explorit federated search is the alerting feature. This feature can bring value to any database searched in a federated fashion. For this particular example I am using Mednar, (recently named #6 in the top ten alternative search engines for 2008). It’s fairly common for researchers to monitor [...]
