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 [...]
SWITCH TO DEEP WEB TECHNOLOGIES AND SAVE THOUSANDS Deep Web Technologies is offering a unique chance to replace existing WebFeat installations. The catch? You must be willing to save over $3,800 on next-generation federated search for your library! Now, with Deep Web Technologies next-generation federated search, you can go deeper and faster than you have [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s self-evident that search engines return results. What many people don’t realize, is that search engines return two basic types of results: rank results and relevant results. Ranked results are preferred, because this means the search engine used some algorithm to determine the relative importance of each result from one another and (hopefully) returned a [...]
Last month, I wrote Strategic Uses for Federated Search, Part 1, which discussed how federated search in marketing and brand management creates a strategic advantage for an organization. Now I’d like to talk (briefly, at least for me) about another area where federated search represents a key strategic advantage: Intellectual property research and litigation. I [...]
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. [...]
