Prior to joining Yahoo Research, he managed the "Information Management Principles" group at IBM's Almaden Research Center, and served as chief scientist on the WebFountain project. Andrew Tomkins joined Yahoo Research in 2005 from IBM.
The article doesn't mention if any of IBM's WebFountain technology has been incorporated into the product but my hunch (which can be wrong) is that it has. According to this article from News.com, IBM is joining other players in offering services...
Btw, at one point Factiva was set to partner with IBM and use Big Blue's WebFountain technology to power a reputation tool. However, the deal between Factiva and IBM ended in early February. I thought I would toss this one up on the blog since the...
It looks like Accenture is joining IBM's WebFountain, Intelliseek and others in monitoring buzz and reputation from the web and blogosphere. The Canada.com article: Net searcher has its ears to the blog, provides background about a prototype...
IBM's WebFountain search engine has gott IBM's WebFountain Takes A Blow By Danny Sullivan, Feb. Top Stories + More From The Search Engine Watch Blog + About The Newsletter SES NY Coming Up Fast! Search Engine Strategies runs from Feb.
IBM's WebFountain search engine has gotten some attention in the past as a potential Google killer, though it was never released to the public in that way. More here from Information World Review: Factiva to drop IBM's WebFountain.
Factiva to drop IBM's WebFountain. A special report from the Search Engine Strategies 2004 Conference, December 13-16, Chicago. Search for a product or service in a specific geographical area, such as "Seattle plumber" or "Chicago restaurants," and...
Factiva even has plans to offer a corporate reputation monitor by using IBM's WebFountain technology. We're seeing more and more interest in mining the web, blogosphere, and other publications to track buzz about companies, products, people, etc.
A few interesting anecdotes on how IBM's WebFountain is being used to analyze web content to report on company reputations and competitive intelligence. Search Engine Watch News + Search Engine Strategies Comes To London, San Jose + SearchDay...
IBM has half a football field of computers churning away at analyzing the web for its WebFountain search engine. WebFountain is being readied as a pay-for-search service that businesses are hoped to pick up for data mining purposes.
And yet another article -- but a good, reader-friendly one -- about IBM's WebFountain project, which aims to mine trends on the web and sell the knowledge to companies. IBM sets out to make sense of the Web News.com, Feb.http://news.com.com/2100...
IBM has half a football field of computers churning away at analyzing the web for its WebFountain search engine. WebFountain is designed to analyze and tag pages, in order to understand how to relate words and concepts found in them to other pages.
IBM WebFountain - taking web search to the next level. When will the company finally go public? Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan poses these and other questions to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
IBM WebFountain - taking web search to the next level. Argali is a powerful directory lookup application that allows you to search and aggregate results from several web-based phone and email address databases.
Examines how IBM's WebFountain crawler attempts to keep its index constantly updated with changes from the web. A number of technical papers relating to indexing the web and searching were presented at the recent 10th International World Wide Web...
