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Friday 11 May 2007

Irish researcher annonunce super-fast RDF search engine

By Nicolas on Friday 11 May 2007, 18:14

A super-fast RDF search engine have been developed in Ireland. At least, that's what we can read from Electric News.

Professor Stefan Decker, director of DERI (Galway's Digital Enterprise Research Institute) is definitely enthusiastic about its team work. The importance of this breakthrough cannot be overestimated. These results enable us to create web search engines that really deliver answers instead of links. The technology also allows us to combine information from the web, for example the engine can list all partnerships of a company even if there is no single web page that lists all of them.

By the way, what is RDF ??? Wikipedia gives the following definition : Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata model but which has come to be used as a general method of modeling information, through a variety of syntax formats.

RDF is often used for disseminating news article summaries and sharing weblog content. So this technologies will be able to gather information from deep web, link them together, and brong more sense to each piece of information, , as Reportlinkler does.

We are quite impatient to see how this technology will change the semantic search engine landscape. We will keep an eye on it !

Thursday 3 May 2007

Will the web 3.0 be the future of the search engine industry ?

By Nicolas on Thursday 3 May 2007, 23:20

Pandia search news published this week a very interesting interview of Andrew Goodman on the future of Google and the search engine industry. Andrew is the conference chairman of the forthcoming Search Engine Strategies conference in Toronto in June.

Without clearly naming it, Andrew gives different keys regarding the Web 3.0.

He explains where general search engine limits are, taking the example of the so called invisible web. We’re supposed to think that shining a light on all information is unproblematic, but of course it isn’t.

He also gives its opinion on how Google is setting up personalized search. Done right, it’s a natural extension of what search ought to be. The lite version of course simply orients results to likely intent, geography, etc.; it helps disambiguate queries.

But Andrew, as François Schiettecatte, is pointing privacy concern we can have through the way Google is personalizing search. Reportlinker, and new entrants in the web 3.0 in using tags provided by semantic technologies make easier the browsing through document without gathering users personal information.

We do not have much information on how google is doing (well, if anyone has, he still can leave a comment here !), but one thing is sure. Google "Big Brother" reputation will make them difficult to implement such technology !

Wednesday 18 April 2007

The new semantic search engine strenghts

By Nicolas on Wednesday 18 April 2007, 23:32

Red Herring published at the beggining of April an article called "First Semantic Search Engine?" The technology business newspaper is asking an essential question on the future of this market : Are the newcomers, such as Zoominfo or Reportlinker, the first ever semantic search engine ?

The answer is YES ! The new vertical search engine structures open access information already on the web, which is a true revolution. Industry leaders, such as Google and Yahoo are able to offer you the broadest database of results (12 Billion pages ??).... But soon, only search engine experts will be able to find out what they are looking for in this mountains of data, even if experts agree to say that Google is probably already using semantic technologies to improve quality of its results.

So basically, the first benefit to the use of semantic search engine is time sparing. That's definitely good news for CEO's ! Actually, time spending on research over the Internet for business purpose increased by 40 % between 2001 and 2006, Outsell Inc said. And this is time that professsionals won't use for analysis and decision purpose. To summarize, getting more information makes you less efficient.

This point of view is shared by a research team from Wright State University in Ohio. Developing a semantic search engine technology, the team is working on usage in the Healthcare industry, but also terrorism, defense, and financial services.

The strenght of this new generation of search engine is to allow users to identify information described in another way than they formulated it in their query : - HR professionals will identify best applicants - Doctor will idenitify potential danger of medecine usage - Information professionals will easily get open access industry reports.

Monday 16 April 2007

Salesforce.com takes Koral over

By Nicolas on Monday 16 April 2007, 22:12

A new deal has been closed in the Business Information 3.0 landscape. Salesforce.com recently acquires the start up Koral.

Salesforce.com suite CRM applications allows customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, and marketing information. The 29,800 customers and approximately 646,000 paying subscribers for whom Salesforce.com manages customer information, will now access content that Koral allow them to retrieve over the Internet.

All information about this deal can be found here.

Wednesday 11 April 2007

The Business Information 3.0 is born. Reportlinker follows this trend.

By Nicolas on Wednesday 11 April 2007, 17:39

John Blossom, Senior Analyst for Shore Communications Inc, wrote an excellent article about companies "Building Quality Business Content from the Web". John gives its opinion on the future of the information industry new entrants. According to John, Business Information 3.0 (Web 3.0 information industry companies) has been born. These companies use "born-on-the-Web content and technologies to create business information services that are several notches above previous efforts to glean quality information from Web sites and other key sources". They are modifying the competitive landscape, as John considers that leaders like Factiva, Hoover's, and others are not able to dive in the deep web to gather Open Access Information.

Two companies (Zoominfo and Generate Inc) are presented as an example. One can still tell John that he forgot to talk about Reportlinker !!

Article can be found here.

Monday 9 April 2007

Reportlinker : the first web 3.0 search engine dedicated to market research reports

By Nicolas on Monday 9 April 2007, 17:07

Sramana Mitra is one of the first expert giving a definition of the emerging Web 3.0 on her brillant strategy blog. Sramana insist on the web 3.0 formula : Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS).

For her, Web 3.0 :

You will read her post here.

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