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. [...]
This post re-published with permission from AltSearchEngines.com. Here is Part I and Part II Federated Search: Beyond the Basics We have only scratched the surface of the technology. I recommend playing with federated search applications and reading some of my other articles: Some federated search applications include: * Mednar – Searches medical information sources. * [...]
This post re-published with permission from AltSearchEngines.com. Here is Part I A Definition of Federated Search While not everyone agrees on all details of what federated search is, here’s a fairly well-accepted definition: Federated search is the process of performing a simultaneous real-time search of multiple diverse and distributed sources from a single search page, [...]
This post is republished with permission from AltSearchEngines.com. Federated search facilitates research by helping users find high-quality documents in more specialized or remote corners of the Internet. Federated search applications excel at finding scientific, technical, and legal documents whether they live in free public sites or in subscription sites. This makes federated search a vital [...]
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 [...]
