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Find.Com - New Business Search Engine
Thursday, June 24, 2004
A new search engine focusing on business and industry was released
earlier this week. Find.Com is a very interesting tool that seems
to combine the "clustering" format of Vivisimo with the
variety of a meta-crawler search tool. Owned by Empire Media of
New York NY, Find.Com works with search-technology developer TripleHop
Technology's enterprise search software, MatchPoint. Here is the
explanation of the software and how the search tool works, copied
directly from their About page:
TripleHop’s solutions were designed on the premise that the
relevancy of search results depends on the task at hand and the
intended use of the information collected, and thus changes with
the context. TripleHop’s core technology combines the best
of semantic and statistical analysis to bring unparalleled recall,
precision and contextualization to your queries.
MatchPoint is based on a service oriented architecture that includes
several layers. Functional layers include an Information Discovery
layer that consists of a set of “intelligent” crawlers
and connectors, an Information Processing layer that features most
of MatchPoint’s extraction and categorization technology, which
feeds the data model (or Information Model) layer. The Information
Retrieval layer includes an automatic result categorization (clustering)
technology as well as the cornerstone of MatchPoint: the Federator,
which merges results from internal indexes with results from the
search engine connectors and achieves normalization and cross-sources
relevance ranking.
In other words, Find.Com may have built a better mousetrap by combining
several successful techniques into one technology.
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