The Next Generation Internet Search Engine?

May 26th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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Sobha Renaissance Information Technology (SRIT) today announced the launch of iCognue, its much awaited internet search engine powered by LMai (Latent Metonymical Analysis and Indexing), an algorithm for deriving the contextual relationship for a search topic.

The algorithm was globally announced and filed for an international patent last year. In simple terms, iCognue will pave way for search to transcend beyond keyword search, where results revolve around the larger context of the typed keyword and not only around the keyword.

Three principal aspects that set iCognue apart are:

* Most consistent, rich and accurate contextual internet search in the globe today

* Results derived through Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques needing little or no human intervention, allowing the search engine to grow more and more intelligent automatically with the increase in the size of data indexed

* Search limited to Encyclopedia, Wikipedia and Healthcare for time being For instance, if a user types “Mental Health” as the keyword, the best search engines available on the internet today will provide results limited to the keyword, and display the right pages associated with the keyword, ranked in an order, which ensures that more pertinent pages figure earlier or in the first page of the search result. However, they would largely fail in those instances where the user is searching for a slightly complicated term like “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” but does not remember the word and only knows that it is related to “Mental Health”. In such a scenario, the search engines available today will not help the user in understanding the ‘Mental Health’ to be related to ‘Obsessive Compulsive Disorder’, and provide the user the means to expand their search in arriving at the required search topic through contextual relationships.

Syed Yasin, Inventor-LMai and Principal Architect- Search Technologies observed, “While we were very positive last year when we announced the algorithm and also showcased iCognue as a proof of concept for LMai, we learnt of subsequent challenges in the industry as our technology works on unstructured data (Internet) and the true potential of LMai would be visibly evident only when utilized live on the internet. It is a vindication of sort that we need to endure and go through. Personally I have learnt a lot on the business challenges for the search industry and feel the timing to go live on the internet is ripe today. We did not have so much knowledge of the industry last year.”

 

Yes, a search engine just for accountants…

May 26th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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IFACnet is a global accountancy search engine designed specifically for professional accountant in business and small and medium practices.It provides easy access to leading-edge articles, good practice guidance, management strategies and tools, and other resources developed by professional accountancy bodies worldwide. These resources are designed to help professional accountants stay current on the latest trends and techniques, perform competently and compete effectively.

Hello, my name is Derek Franklin. Whonu?

May 26th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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Hello, my name is Derek Franklin. I am the creator/developer of whonu.com.

Why did I create/develop whonu? Mainly it was because I saw the need for a tool that tapped into the power of multiple search engines because, in my personal quest for information online, I discovered that while there were many search technologies out there, each had their own definite strengths and weaknesses.

I felt that if I could bring together the power of all these great search tools into a single interface, I just might have the research, discovery, idea-generating tool I’ve been looking for. Thus, whonu.com was born.

whonu.com didn’t begin nearly as ambitious as it turned out (ambitious from my perspective). The original plan was just to only tap into Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, and a few other sources, but as I began developing it, I discovered some pretty amazing technologies out there that, if I included them, would simply make whonu.com a premiere search destination.

In addition, whonu contains a number of search innovations and tools. Look for more as time goes on.

Search How-To Video and Find Out How, Too

May 26th, 2008 by Rafi Farber
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Ever wonder how to? Now there’s a search engine that will tell you. WonderHowTo is a video search engine, and it concentrates exclusively on How-To Videos.

The WonderHowTo team is focused on sourcing only great Free How-To Video. They embrace all content providers whose videos display a bona fide intent to instruct on virtually any topic. As of launch, WonderHowTo provides content from more than 500 specialized sites spanning 36 vertical categories and 403 sub-categories, adding thousands of videos each week. Their strategy is mostly human based. Their members scour the web for how-to videos and bring them into the database. For some entertainment and curiosity rousing, they have a Clip of the Day.

The search works like this: After you have typed your key word and received your results, you can look to the left hand column and see Refine Search. With this you can see the results displayed and sorted by category and sub-category. That is, a key word may have tons of results. But you can look to the left column and quickly filter through the Category or Sub-category results to determine whether the answer to your question lies in a particular area of your interest.

You can approach search by choosing first what Category you are curious about. As an example, choose a video Category (say, Food) in the Browse column. Near there you’ll find a Category choice, meaning you can now search for results that are only from within the designated Category (FoodVideos). Then you can type your query, e.g. “How do you make homemade ice cream?”

Then you find out. And you don’t have to pay a thing.

See also HowDoYa

Pubget – Search for PDF’s without the hassle

May 26th, 2008 by Rafi Farber
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If you’re familiar with Pubmed, (click here for more information) Pubget advertises itself as “…like Pubmed, except you get the PDF’s right away,” meaning, you don’t have to go navigating through a bunch of links in a site the search engine ives you just to find the document you’re looking for. Pubget will only give you actual PDF links.

On getting to the actual PDF link from the start of a search, “It’s a Rube Goldberg mechanism,” says Ramy Arnaout, cofounder of the company. “The link on the record takes you to a page on the publisher’s site,” which often is filled with publishing houses each hosting the PDF’s separately. This takes time to wade through. From the publisher’s page, it’s usually another click to get to a ‘download’ page, and another click from there to get to the PDF itself — “and that’s if you’re already logged in,” Arnaout said.

According to Pubget, scientists spend more than a quarter billion minutes searching for biomedical literature online each year. This is time they could better spend curing disease and doing science. Pubget’s mission is to give them that time back.

The site indexes about 20 million records and gives the user titles, authors, abstracts, and other related information in response to a search. Many of these records, including the majority of recent records, also include links to where the full text of the publication can be found online.

Whether you have to pay for the service actually depends on what you’re looking for. Where PDFs are free, Pubget gets you them for free. Where PDFs are restricted by subscription, Pubget gives you only abstracts. To get the PDF, your institution must subscribe to Pubget.

Access to most publications, especially recent publications, is not free. The user, or some institution to which the user belongs, must purchase a subscription; at major research universities, subscriptions can number in the thousands.

Pubget also lets users bookmark favorite papers as “keepers,” tag and share them, and send citations to Endnote and other popular citation managers, as well as print and save PDFs. Another hidden advantage is that when you share a paper, you only have to share a link, so there’s no possibility of copyright infringement.

To manage access, Pubget is offering institution-level subscriptions to universities, companies, libraries, and other research institutions. “Because it’s an entirely hosted solution, there’s no software to download, install, or maintain,” Connor said.

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