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Yahoo Geeks Out Over Semantic Search

One word may have two different meanings, depending on the context of their usage. Yahoo hopes to find the key in search that enables its engine to understand the difference.

Selling a Company on Enterprise Search

I spoke at the Gilbane conference yesterday (you can download my slides on semantic search).

Trying Semantic Search Yourself

Most of you know that my job focuses on IBM's OmniFind enterprise search and text analytics products. And I've written before about semantic search—I've even written about what semantic search isn't. I keep talking about it because semantic search is probably the easiest to understand application of text analytics.

Calacanis: Web 3.0 is Whatever I Say it is

Humpty Dumpty: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.” Alice: “The question is, whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

SiloMatic - Latent Semantic Indexing

The days of keyword stuffing, single phrase optimization and concentrating only on incoming links to gain traffic are slowly being phased out as a more holistic approach to judging website content comes online. This new concept has many webmasters hopping, and it should. Latent semantic indexing is quickly becoming the wave of now.

Avatar Seeks Semantic Search

Researchers at IBM Almaden have been developing a semantic search process that can delve into unstructured text to retrieve structured information.

What Semantic Search is Not

You may have heard the term "semantic search," but do you really know what it is? Some people have very big ideas of how computers will understand the meaning of text, but today's semantic search falls far short of that. Regardless, what's possible today is still very useful. To understand how hard it is for computers to really understand the meaning of text, let's not look at understanding entire documents or even paragraphs. Let's not even look at sentences. No, let's start with something extremely simple: noun phrases.

Xerox Takes A Stab At Semantic Search

Every day, we bring you news of the latest comings and goings in the search engine industry.  The names Google and Yahoo come up a lot . . . Xerox, not so much.  But it’s that last company that is preparing a semantics-based search engine.

Semantic Images & SEO

Very rarely do I come across software that makes me go “WOW” Keep in mind that I read almost everything covering new social software. Microsoft has a project team working on a piece of software called SeaDragon. What is SeaDragon?

SMX: Cutts on Themes and Latent Semantic Indexing

Having worked closely with latent semantic indexing, during my time at FI, I’ve become a big advocate of making sure you have structured themes in your content, and that you include a supporting cast of semantically connected keywords. In this clip from SMX Advanced, Matt Cutts shares how Google is continually testing the use of LSI, and keyword themes.