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As Keyword Search Becomes Less Effective

What is the simplest, most effective way of explaining the power of the Semantic Web? Semantic Search which works 10 times better than the current Search technologies may be one of them. Today a typical Google search returns up to

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Tech Links – Feb 16, 2007

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures This is a dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypal problems, and related definitions. Algorithms include common functions, such as Ackermann’s function. Problems include traveling salesman and Byzantine generals. Some entries have links

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Solr – Open Source Enterprise Search Server

We have been using Lucene for a while. It is embedded in our InfoMinder product (mostly for filtering content). I was happy to find an entire Enterprise Search solution called Solr. It is an Apache project (in incubation) and seems

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Google Custom Search and Google Marker

Google creates a tool for creating your own contextual search engine. And an addition tool to customize it incrementally. You can create your own, here. You can customize it in two ways: By specifying a set of keywords By specifying

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A Programmer’s Search Engine from Google

Just saw this on Digg.dot.us. A search engine for locating code from Google. I tried a simple search to locate all python files that use xmlrpclib. I used the Advanced Search feature. Here are the screen shots. It is pretty

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Exploratory Search

As search technologies become more pervasive, they will be used for a wide range of activities. We initially started using search for looking up information about people, products, companies, locations, resources etc. As we grow more comfortable using search, we

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How Can We Make Search Better

Try this search. “Find digital camera stores near me”. Guess what I found when I typed this into Google? I got a bunch of links on “near infrared cameras”. Yahoo and Microsoft search did no better. That is because these

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Context Searching

Today I came across an announcement from DocSoft. “Element” unleashes the power of structured data within a company’s repository. With Element as a plug-n-play addition to a company’s network, users will be able to search for stored data across the

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