L'importance des "petits" moteurs de recherche. DumbFind Web Search. About Our Technology. What is Infocious? What is different about Infocious? What is the technology powering Infocious? What is Linguistic Analysis? Does Infocious rank pages based only on Linguistic Analysis? What is Web page categorization? Does Infocious have its own crawler? What is the meaning of the word Infocious? Infocious is a next-generation algorithmic search engine that helps you find information on the Web by: performing linguistic analysis on the Web pages. In this way Infocious gains a better understanding of the content of the Web pages, and can return more relevant results.
[more on linguistic analysis] organizing the information on the Web in categories. Oftentimes there are simply too many relevant results to browse through. [more on categorization] saving you time by showing you additional important topics within the results. Infocious gives you an idea of what important topics (called key phrases) are present within a Web page in addition to your query. [more on key phrases] [overview of features] No. Overview of Clustering and Clusty Search Engine. Written by Alex Iskold Earlier this week we wrote about The Race to beat Google.
In that article we discussed various approaches that startups are taking trying to unseat the web giant. In this post we are going to zoom in on one of the companies - Clusty and their search clustering technology. Before looking at the specifics of Clusty, we will discuss the issues with search at large and will give an overview of clustering.
What is perfect search? It is interesting to ask: What do we expect when we enter a term into a search box? Consider for example, our interactions with an Information clerk at the mall. What is qualitatively different between our experience with the Information clerk vs. a search engine is that with the clerk we have a dialog. The problem is that human interactions are fundamentally iterative, while our interactions with computers are mostly stateless. What is clustering? Clusters are very common phenomenon both in nature and in human society. Which is not intuitive. Information Wants To Be Free » Blog Archive » Whatever you do don’t use Google! After we teach our students how to distinguish between authoritative and unauthoritative resources, we need to actually show them how to find such authoritative resources.
While our databases are great, they sometimes aren’t the most user-friendly things to search (LexisNexis anyone?). And frankly, these students won’t have access to the databases once they graduate and yet they may still have to do research in their subject area. So it’s nice to show students that there are some great resources in their subject that are freely available on the Web. I’m sure most of you already know that ResourceShelf is a amazing place to find quality online resources that you may never have found otherwise. Docuticker, its sister site, offers links to quality reports and publications from the government and think tanks. Jimmy Atkinson recently e-mailed me to let me know about his article Research Beyond Google. Hot X 4! Google Inconsistencies.
Grokker - Enterprise Search Management and Content Integration.