Monday, February 23, 2004
Search Engine News at Search Engine Lowdown: "Yahoo Confirms Not Using Inktomi
According to WebmasterWorld forum user 'Tim' (which after reading his profile, can only be Yahoo employee, Tim Mayer), Yahoo is not using Inktomi...
'Yahoo is using a new search technology which is not Inktomi.'
It's obviously based on Inktomi technology, but the fact that Yahoo results do not match those at MSN or Hotbot, confirms that it's certainly an improved version. Yahoomi perhaps?
P.S. Tim, if it's not you that made that quote, please let me know. ;-)
- Search Engine News by Andy Beal | News Link "
According to WebmasterWorld forum user 'Tim' (which after reading his profile, can only be Yahoo employee, Tim Mayer), Yahoo is not using Inktomi...
'Yahoo is using a new search technology which is not Inktomi.'
It's obviously based on Inktomi technology, but the fact that Yahoo results do not match those at MSN or Hotbot, confirms that it's certainly an improved version. Yahoomi perhaps?
P.S. Tim, if it's not you that made that quote, please let me know. ;-)
- Search Engine News by Andy Beal | News Link "
Search Engine News from Google Blogoscoped: Google Search Engine News
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
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With VisIT® text and data mining capabilities, hundreds of search results can be quickly and dynamically clustered by similarity or other metrics. Types or classes of documents can be efficiently and effectively classified. Hundreds of thousands of documents can be mined for data when needed and the results made available for visualization. Needed information can be extracted from tagged as well as untagged documents. Knowledge is managed amongst users in a variety of ways. The results of users searches, “knowledge artifacts” are saved and managed within a group of users of any size. These knowledge artifacts become another searchable resource for users and another source of information for machine intelligence algorithms and data mining. When VisIT’s® personalized search engine is deployed it can look for selective information (as defined by authorized users) or crawl desired sites entirely, caching information that is found for future use. VisIT can work seamlessly with other corporate search solutions as well, to augment their results and make them more effective and easy to use.
VisIT® is more than just a passive system. VisIT® listens to its users, learns from them, helps users learn from other users, facilitates collaboration and can adjust to the needs of the novice or advanced experts. VisIT® does not rely on lists of millions of “hits” presented ten at a time to display information. VisIT® provides alternative graphical displays that can help the user see more information and, more information about the results of a search. Search results can be easily deleted, manipulated and annotated in a simple “Windows like” manner that is easy for anyone to learn.
