He discussed the advent of federated search, which helps people search across multiple databases and websites when they don't know exactly where to look for their answer. According to Morville, Google is the ultimate federated search platform but...
The federated search service incorporates technology from WebFeat, which they recently acquired. We were given the opportunity to combine the top two leading federated search services into the single most powerful and feature-packed solution...
Looking towards the future, Gary sees a continued move towards federated search, such as Kayak which aggregates and dedupes travel information from sites like Expedia and Orbitz, or Indeed.com, which aggregates data for job information.
For example, regarding the business aspect, we have recently joined Federated Media, John Battelle's organization. When you are on the homepage, you will see a search box on the left side of the page, and below that there is a link to "articles and...
Providing access to federated search tools provides authoritative content from reliable sources, but it can be daunting, and time consuming for users to search dozens of databases, especially since each requires a different syntax and offers...
The topic of cross-database (aka federated or metasearching) is a hot topic these days. For a long time I've said verticals will continue to grow in popularity and importance as meta search tools which are getting better all of the time will allow...
Searches are federated and results collected amongst numerous databases. Yes, federated database searching. Federated searching mobile or non-mobile coupled with personalization (which database(s) do I choose) continues to gain steam.
Isn't this called federated or metasearch? Ballmer: I've seen many sophisticated (some better than others) market ready search tools that allow the searcher to simultaneously search both intranet, extranet, fee-based databases, open web content...
I often wonder if making large web engines larger with more content will make everything easier versus keeping things in small, focused databases and using meta/federated search technologies to (if needed) search disparate databases simultaneously...
Yes, it's another travel search engine that offers a meta or federated search of disparate air fare databases to report on. You'll be searching the databases of more than 30 European airlines including both legacy carriers (Lufthansa, Air France...
The article points out an issue for these and other federated search tools, will the providers of the underlying databases (HotJobs and Monster for example) continue to aggregate results from their services?
This is why I believe invidualized, federated search appliances, will become commonplace in the future for many types of searchers. As web and other databases grow larger and the amount of non-web info (email, chat, spreadsheets, etc) in our lives...
This is also another example of federated search. In other words, keeping materials in disparate databases and merging them together at the time of the search. Desktop search tools to move from desktop to Intranet, is the title of a ZDNet article...
Perhaps tools like Clusty/Vivisimo and other clustering tools along with federated/metasearch, answer engines, and search personalization will help. We can clearly see with tools like Jux2 that the amount of overlap between major web databases isn...
Velocity offers dynamic clustering, and meta/federated search capabilities that allows the searcher to tap both web, fee-based, and internal databases simultaneously while using a common interface. We don't spend a great deal of time talking about...
From the article, "In one fell swoop Masala [codename for the new IBM product] could solve three problem areas in managing enterprise-level searches: the rapidly expanding universe of data, the growing variety of mostly unstructured data, and the...
All the way back in 1997, Infoseek (technology now owned by Disney) was issued a patent for "distributed searching," a sort of federated meta-search process. While all of the major search engines update at least a portion of their indexes on a...
All the way back in 1997, Infoseek (technology now owned by Disney) was issued a patent for "distributed searching," a sort of federated meta-search process. While all of the major search engines update at least a portion of their indexes on a...
Designed as a distributed federated search system, this engine can now access content in Oracle and SQL Server databases, bridge to Lotus Domino servers, handle incoming data feeds, and index static or dynamic documents.
