Monday, May 15, 2006
John Battelle's Searchblog: Melanie's RoundUp:
"Collexis Fingerprints
Yet another search service--but wait, Collexis claims individuality for 'helping to get your job done by thinking for you.'
Instead of caching full pages, Collexis crawls for 'Fingerprints' of content based on a thesaurus-rich text analysis that can access live pages, archives, and various other types of files.
'The system can create a fingerprint for each piece of text that contains relevant information, such as competence sheets, project descriptions or web pages. The fingerprinting process makes use of a structure of professional terminology of a particular field (essentially a thesaurus). Picture 10By doing so it embodies the way humans understand those terms and concepts.'
Collexis is a tailored industry search for government, university and medical research, pharmaceuticals, and banking and finance. Making data accessible and easy to manipulate will have nice implications for analysts and experts in all those fields, but Collexis also aims to make 'it easy to use for even the most non-technical user.'... "
"Collexis Fingerprints
Yet another search service--but wait, Collexis claims individuality for 'helping to get your job done by thinking for you.'
Instead of caching full pages, Collexis crawls for 'Fingerprints' of content based on a thesaurus-rich text analysis that can access live pages, archives, and various other types of files.
'The system can create a fingerprint for each piece of text that contains relevant information, such as competence sheets, project descriptions or web pages. The fingerprinting process makes use of a structure of professional terminology of a particular field (essentially a thesaurus). Picture 10By doing so it embodies the way humans understand those terms and concepts.'
Collexis is a tailored industry search for government, university and medical research, pharmaceuticals, and banking and finance. Making data accessible and easy to manipulate will have nice implications for analysts and experts in all those fields, but Collexis also aims to make 'it easy to use for even the most non-technical user.'... "
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