Web 3.0 : From Open Access Content to Quality Business Information

Nicolas — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:27:00 +0200

The Online Information 2007, the world's leading event for online content and information management solutions, will begin on the 4th of December. Reportlinker will exhibit, and speak Thursday 6 December (14.00-15.30) during a session called "Managing enterprise information Search - is there any innovation left?"

We will present their the content of a paper we are publishing on our blog. You will find here today our introduction.

In a more and more competitive business environment, companies need :

To find precise, recent and validated business information
To access them as quick as possible

The amount of open access industry information published by public and authoritative sources has been exploding for several years. More than 200.000 sources such as Governments, Embassies, Public agencies, Investment agencies, Banks, Industry clusters, Trade unions... are now publishing open access market statistics, forecasts and analyses and make them available for free on the world wild web.

Though they exist in great quantity, these pieces of information are not so easy to retrieve. Private publishers and industry information analysts spend many efforts and money to trust the first places of Google and every other general search engines. Open access content thus becomes invisible. As a consequence, Information professionals need to spend more time and elaborate complex search strategies to find information (Outsell reports that search time increased by 40 % in 5 years). Our paper aims at presenting strategies and tools to easily identify and access valuable open access content to serve business research needs.

1/ Who produces free industry reports on the Internet ? Why ? Can you trust open access market research and industry statistics ? We will present here who are the main open access information providers. Attendees will learn here why they can trust most of them, and how to assess the others ?

2/ Learn how to search and identify valuable open access industry information . Using specific queries, boolean operators or even advanced search box allow professionals to easily identify open access content through general search engines. Using invisible web and public information aggregators can also save time. Attendees will learn here where to search for Open Access Industry Reports on the Internet ? What kind of search strategy will help them to more efficiently retrieve them ?

3/ How the Web 3.0 and new generation search engines can help you finding valuable industry information ?

A new generation of vertical search engines is born. Each of them follow the web 3.0 trend. They serve vertical users needs such as airline tickets search, personal and company search, or industry report search. These new generation of search engines creates added value services from public free information gathered on the open web. We will define here the web 3.0, present the technologies that will change the web, and explain some leading business models.

An Interview of Reportlinker CEO

Nicolas — Thu, 31 May 2007 22:24:00 +0200

Decideurstv interviewed Benjamin Carpano last week. Ben gives its vision of Reportlinker, explains here how our search engine works, where the reports comes from, how to access the service... Interview is enclosed, for French speaker only. By the way, Horizon Entrepreneurs presents on their blog an interesting summary of the interview.

Reportlinker's blog : Web 3.0, Vertical Search, Information Industry and Market Research News - Tag - Reportlinker

Web 3.0 : From Open Access Content to Quality Business Information

An Interview of Reportlinker CEO