“This requires that each airline must receive the new list from Homeland Security, index that new list, and then look for matches against every passenger manifest of each flight that is departing within the next two hours.  If they miss a name, they could face fines from the US Government.  The complexity and burden placed on airlines could immense,” said Tim Stay, CEO of Perfect Search Corporation.

In the latest terrorism incident, Faisal Shahzad, who is alleged to have tried to blow up an SUV in TImes Square on Saturday evening, was added to the no-fly list early Monday morning, only hours before he boarded a plane to Dubai.

The no-fly list has been in effect since the September 11 attacks, but has required a manual check of the no fly list.  It appears that in the case of Shahzad that Emirates Airlines missed his name, allowing the suspect to purchase a ticket and obtain a boarding pass.

“Perfect Search offers a high precision solution for airlines needing to run their passenger manifest against the No Fly List.  We offer high speed indexing so when new names are added to the list, they can be searched with little delay,” stated Ken Ebert, CTO of Perfect Search.

The Perfect Search solution allows an extra degree of security to make sure that possible matches are flagged and highlighted, allowing airline personnel to manually focus on suspected hits to the No Fly List.

“Not only can we provide the high-speed indexing of new names, but we can search using Soundex and Double Metaphone functionality that allows similar sounding names with different spelling variations to be flagged for further evaluation,” added Ebert.

Perfect Search offers their solution as an appliance that is easy to install and operate.

“The airlines could be operational within days, giving them an extra tool to meet the new   U.S. requirements,” stated Tim Stay, “When indexing and query speed is important, it is important to use Perfect Search.”

If you’ve read his work, you’ve likely picked out some themes. One that holds particular resonance is this idea that most believe that if you’ve got a search problem, the traditional answer is to throw hardware at it. Having a database performance issue? Throw hardware at it. Having scalability issues? Hardware. Not getting the queries per second you need? I think you get the idea.

Throwing hardware at the problem may be great for the companies selling the hardware, but from licensing to energy costs more hardware means more cost, and folks these days are a bit more cautious when it comes to pulling the trigger. As one client recently said, “People are buying cheaper, not better. . . “‘

Enter Perfect Search. Using patented algorithms and methodologies Perfect Search clients are able to actually reduce the amount of hardware required to support search and we’ve never delivered a solution that produced less than a 5 to 1 search server reduction. In most cases the server replacement ratio is actually higher. Add to that the fact that the technology produces superior query precision, blazing index and query speeds, and all at an attractive price point and Perfect Search starts to look very appealing.

Given the above, it’s no wonder that folks like Stephen Arnold and the team over at Arnold IT are fans. We’re pretty excited too.

Provided these numbers are correct, what does the future look like for on premise data center management? As Stephen Arnold of the Arnold IT group states, “Well, grim I suppose.” So what are the operational implications of such a potential shift? As Arnold and others see it, “Industry dislocation, limited choice, high costs, and reduced control.”

For those wanting similar cost reduction on search related expenses and to retain on site management of their data, we should talk.

In addition to providing superior search in terms speed, precision, and power, Perfect Search also produces unmatched scalability. Utilizing Perfect Search technology our clients have been able to drastically reduce the hardware needed for search. We’ve never shown less than a 5 to 1 search server reduction ratio and in most instances it’s much greater.

For the best of both worlds in terms of cost savings and on site data management, Perfect Search is the perfect solution.

Perfect Search for i.TV dramatically increases speed of search, has empowered i.TV to further enhance existing search related functionality and build out new feature sets. The enhancements are already getting praise on their Facebook page, where people are saying things like, “PERFECT!! Movie search works now just like you said! Thanks so much, guys”

We’re excited with the partnership and are definitely going to have some fun with this app.

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“Having just returned from a very successful trip to Oracle Open World, its hard not to be excited about our technology and opportunities. There is reported to have been 35,000 individuals in attendance, and though that number was down from the previous two years, we felt that those in attendance were serious about looking for real life solutions for existing problems.

We posted a large banner proclaiming “We search MASSIVE Oracle databases” which definitely stopped more than a few curious attendees and got them talking. Once talking, it was more often than not determined that there was a need to also federate search across multiple disparate databases, search both their structured and unstructured (free text) data, Index/Query at higher speeds, scale cost effectively, or any combination of the above.

We were able to establish a large number of contacts where our message had resonance and look forward to setting up next step meetings with them and moving forward.”

Perfect Search and Access Innovation will be announcing a new partnership at the Search Engine Meeting in Boston next week.  Here is the press release announcing the relationship:

Contact:
Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President
Access Innovations, Inc.
P.O. 8640
Albuquerque, NM  87198-8640
(505) 265-3591; (800) 926-8328
mhlava@accessinn.com

For immediate release

April 27, 2009

“People don’t really want to search.  They want to find information.”  Marjorie Hlava, president of Access Innovations, goes on to say, “Teaming with Perfect Search to create Search Harmony provides the best of all search technologies.”

Access Innovations of Albuquerque, NM, and Perfect Search Corporation of Orem, Utah, today announced a joint presentation for cutting edge search technology at competitive prices.  “The combination of blazingly fast search with tools to increase precision and recall means that the relevance can be based on concepts rather than statistical ‘guess-timates’ and real ‘find-ability’ achieved” said Jay Ven Eman, CEO of Access Innovations.

“The search technology of Perfect Search is based upon ground-breaking technological innovation that provides the ability to quickly index and query very large data sets”, explained Ken Ebert, CTO of Perfect Search.  Extremely scalable, Perfect Search already hosts databases of more than 1.4 billion records with sub-second search response time. The search can be faceted, full text, or a combination.

Adding the presentation layer from Access Innovations’ Data Harmony software suite gives the user the ability to improve search results through taxonomy-enhanced methods such as automatic completion based on the synonyms and taxonomy terms, related terms to broaden the search, narrower terms to refine the search, browsing of taxonomies associated with document sets, spell check, and recursive sets.

“I think you will find this very advanced and something which will fit the users’ semantic strategy by allowing ontology search and application.  The search builds on the taxonomy / thesaurus/ ontology or other controlled lists.  This lets the customer save staff time, quickly find and retrieve, and increase relevance accuracy, as well enjoy better precision and full recall” said Tim Stay, CEO of Perfect Search.

About Access Innovations:

Access Innovations, Inc. has been providing document processing, database construction, and project management for its customers’ information needs since 1978. In those roles, Access Innovations adds value to customer knowledge bases and improves data conversion, document retrieval, content classification, search design, display, and portability of information assets.

The company’s suite of Data Harmony products provides thesaurus construction and database management tools to publishers (both primary and secondary), database producers, online and Web-based directory publishers, corporate libraries, Internet portals, and corporations and associations with large intranets.

For more information about Access Innovations, Data Harmony applications, or the search enhancements, call +1.800.926.8328, e-mail mhlava@accessinn.com, or visit www.accessinn.com or www.dataharmony.com.

About Perfect Search Corporation:

Perfect Search Corporation is a software innovation company that specializes in development of search solutions. A total of eight patents have been applied for around the developing technology.  The suite of search products at http://www.perfectsearchcorp.com/our-products is available on multiple platforms, from small mobile devices, to single servers, to large server farms. For more information, contact Perfect Search at www.perfectsearchcorp.com or +1.801.437.1100.