We’ve been talking a bit about semantic search, so it was interesting to see someone discuss semantic search as it pertains to enterprise search.
In a recent post on the Enterprise Search Blog in terms of leveraging language for improved searches. The author, Lydia Moulton, noted that semantic search is also relevant for enterprise search solutions as well.
In this way, Perfect Search may actually be ahead of the game. If the goal is to be able to figure out the intent behind the search, the ability to search for phrases already improves search relevance. In fact, the meaning behind the search is quite possibly the most important development in search today.
Last week we talked about Googles Metaweb acquisition, asking if this was an effort for Google to stem the tide of search innovation creeping up around it.
Stephen Arnold wrote an interesting piece basically saying that maybe Google’s innovation has peaked. More accurately, Google’s “internal engineering solutions don’t work in the morphing social search world.”
One thing Google has always had an eye for is smart and talented people. It makes sense that the incumbent–and perhaps vulnerable because of it–search leader would look to find innovators to carry it through this industry evolution. Churning and recruiting–or acquiring–the talent isn’t usually a bad thing.
According to HR Magazine UK, a recent survey of UK workers, indicated that workers waste about 30 hours per week as a result of inefficient tools and resources. One of the biggest problems was the inability to find and share local documents quickly.
With tools like Perfect Search’s products, this sort of inefficient working could be reduced, companies could save money and even use less energy.
Our search engine software enables companies to index database information incrementally and recall data at blistering speed. Documents and information can be indexed across multiple servers through federated searches, using keyword based queries without memory and energy drain.
The old concept of the intranet search is dead and workers are looking for something they can really use. Our innovative search technology combined with the right collaborative tools, might be just the solution businesses need.
Google (GOOG) announced today that it had acquired Metaweb, which indexes things or “entities” in the world.
In a video explaining what they do, Metaweb talks about how the internet is not just words and for search to be the most relevant, it should be able to determine the context of the search term.
Google is obviously trying to improve the relevancy if its search. Last year PC World authors even called Google’s approach to search “aging” and talked about the search giant’s strategic moves to revamp its algorithms using semantic search.
This may be the best time for Google to refocus on its core product and make it better. Bing is already slowly chipping away at Google’s huge piece of the search engine pie. Could this be what Google needs to maintain its stranglehold on the industry?
According to a recent post on TechCrunch, mobile search is still a burgeoning sector of the mobile industry, and heavy hitters in the industry are squaring off to stake their claim on the market.
Just last week we talked about our mobile device search. While Apple, Yahoo!, Bing and Google duke it out to be king of mobile internet search, Perfect Search is the first to provide a search engine for device content.
That’s right, this mobile device search indexes content and enables quick searching with minimum energy demand. In fact, the best any other provider can provide a clunky OS, so power intensive, it slows the entire device down.
The Perfect Search Mobile Device Search is available for Windows Mobile devices and will be available for Android, iPhone and Symbian platforms soon.
As more and more organizations begin making the shift toward digital information (for efficiency sake, because of government mandate, or both), its important for us to examine why this digital shift is so important. Also important is how the information will be managed.
The writer at Words of Pie was pondering just such content management in a recent post about why case management needs content management.
For doctors, social workers, lawyers and other people who already work on “cases” this concept is a no-brainer. In fact, for these professions (and many others), case management is content management. As they make the digital transition, professions previously requiring large, complicated filing systems will still need a way to manage this information.
Truthfully, the filing system may be the easiest part. The challenge is often recalling that data at a later date.
As mobile devices become more sophisticated, so does what we expect them to do. For mobile entrepreneurs, mobile devices have to practically become an office on the go. Perfect Search has developed a Windows Mobile device with its exclusive search engine. Since all mobile search is largely focused on internet search technologies, this search engine is unique in that it will be able to index content stored on the device as well as the device’s memory card.
Not only is old content is indexed quickly, but new content is also indexed using Perfect Search’s incremental indexing approach and query responses are returned at blazing speed. The method and speed at which content is indexed and searches precessed, there is little computational demand on the device, which avoids battery drain.
Perfect Search is the first to offer such powerful enterprise search capability for mobile devices. The Perfect Search Mobile Device Search is currently available only on Windows Mobile compatible devices but will be available on Android, iPhone and Symbian devices in the near future.
Business analytics provider SAS recently announced a merger with U.K. software company Memex. According to the Beyond Search blog, this union will enable law enforcement and defense agencies to share and search for information globally.
SAS Chief Executive John Goodnight said that he wants “…SAS to be the first company that public security organizations call to help them apply analytics to solve crime and protect citizens.”
This is proof that government agencies are finding ways to make use of enterprise search solutions to become more efficient. We should expect to see more such partnerships in the near future as enterprise solutions become increasingly essential.
Perfect Search announced today that it is licensing its enterprise search technology to Olson DataMax to enable paper-to-digital document indexing. The documents will be saved in the cloud and can be searched for and retrieved with ease.
“Company data is the heart and soul of information value for all businesses and the data that flows through that heart is vital to preserving the health of the company,” said Tim Stay, Perfect Search President and CEO. He added that companies will now be able to retrieve documents at a keyword or phrase level search.
This solution is especially important for companies mandated to make the shift to digital data management. With the DataMax-Perfect Search partnership, will help the barriers of cost of digital conversion and enable quick and easy document location once the conversion has been made.
Hitwise recently released a report indicating social networks receive more traffic than search engines, which prompted Kingpin-SEO Webmaster magazine to ask the whether or not social networks are becoming “more important” than search engines.
The question is really moot because it pits communication against utility. The fact is that search engines are a tool for finding information while social networks are a means of communication. Sure, people might use certain social networks as a way to find information, however, it is highly unlikely that social networks will ever become the main means of doing so.
This is the case mostly because social networks are designed to help people connect with like-minded individuals and (for now) do not have the capability to search the web for authoritative and/or non-biased information. If you want a recommendation on a particular product or service, you can tap your network for the opinions of people you’re connected to. Depending on the types of people in your network, these may or may not be scientific observations.
Where do you go for scientific observations? You have to dig a little deeper and often the first place people will go for authoritative, more objective information, is to a search engine. Search engines index a larger capacity of web information and have algorithms to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Facebook may be looking to bridge this gap with its new Open-Graph search engine, with its own set of SEO standards, analysts expect to spark a “full scale” search engine war. Facebook’s new social semantic search will filter information, not just based on SEO but by relevance to the searcher as well.
It looks like Google’s status as the king of search is being challenged on all fronts and with Facebook already being the most trafficked site in the world, it will be interesting to see who will come out on top.
Will social semantic search be the next evolution of search? Time will tell.
