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Google launched a major addition to its search results page on Wednesday, which the company says will provide users with more relevant and accurate Internet search results. Dubbed “Knowledge Graph”, the update is Google’s biggest search overhaul in years.  It is the culmination of a two year project to crawl hundreds of Web sources, from Wikipedia to the World CIA Factbook, Google Local, Google Books, Google Shopping and other sites, to build a vast database of subjects and their...

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Discover Technologies, LLC announced the launch of their newest search technology product, InDoc Viewer. InDoc Viewer is a powerful document viewer that reduces network bandwidth, costs and improves the SharePoint user's search experience. It also provides quick access to search results and decreases the time knowledge workers spend searching for necessary information. Unlike other search technologies that require you to type or...

LOS ALTOS, Calif., May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Otopy, Inc. today announced that Otopy's Big Data(TM)( )IAS (Indexing and Search Solution) is now available for HP Cloud Services (http://hpcloud.com). Otopy's solution is ideally suited for cloud computing as it enables efficient indexing of large, highly complex datasets. Otopy's proprietary two-stage semantic compression process eliminates irrelevant data and speeds up search by several orders of magnitude. Otopy's search algorithms...

Ensures Reliable Archiving, Rapid Retrieval, Packaging and Distribution of Business Information, Documents and Reports Held in Spooled Files on the IBM i System PHILADELPHIA, PA (PRWEB) May 07, 2012 Systems management software provider, Halcyon Software Inc., today announced a new product – Document Management System v 3.0 for the IBM i platform. Document Management System v 3.0 is a comprehensive software package which ensures reliable archiving, rapid retrieval, packaging and...

Thought Leadership and Innovative Technologies Contribute to Recognition of Concept Searching in the Knowledge Management Industry McLean, VA and Stevenage, UK (PRWEB) May 07, 2012 Concept Searching, a global leader in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software, and developer of the Smart Content Framework™, has been honored in KMWorld’s Hall of Distinction for its thought leadership in the information management and analytics industry. Concept...

BOSTON, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Although it's the 800-pound gorilla in online book sales, Amazon.com has also managed to become America's most relevant retailer of any kind. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120404/NE82175 ) In a world that gives us the low, low prices of Wal-Mart and the sizzle of the Apple Store, Amazon's outright dominance in relevance is one of several interesting findings in the Brodeur Partners Retail Relevance Top 10 ranking announced...

LOS ANGELES, April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CDNPAL co-founders Shaun Kutch and Christopher Gu have launched an unprecedented crowd-funding campaign on the popular website KickStarter.com. The campaign aims to fund the CDNPAL Open Search Project whose stated goal is to make the web transparently searchable within your community of friends. The campaign kicks off Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 based in Los Angeles, California. The project is trying to raise $100,000 to finish funding the...

Internet search giant Google is revamping its search results and penalizing websites that are “overly optimized,” according to the company’s head of Web spam speaking at SXSW this past week. Matt Cutts spoke to a panel at the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) festival about search engine optimization, revealing the new plan could send fear into the hearts of website managers. An audio clip from the panel discussion is available at SearchEngineLand. Cutts said he wants to...

Google, in an attempt to stave off its competition, is developing new web search technology for its search engine. This new technology is called “semantic search” and will give more facts and answers to search queries instead of strictly web links. According to Amit Singhal, a top Google search executive, the search engine will search a database containing information on hundreds of millions of entities — people places and things. The Wall Street Journal notes that if you search...

Article Search Engine Marketing’s search engine optimization website announces restored news articles. They have put back their press releases after giving attribution. (PRWEB) March 10, 2012 Today, Article Search Engine Marketing has announced that they have finally restored their news section press releases at their search engine optimization website. This report comes after they had been dealing with issues related to these particular news releases. While they haven’t given any...