Sunday, 10th December 2006

No Fooling, The Behaviour of Ants and Information Retrieval: Autonomy recruits army ants for search technology, Dolphins Help With Search Too!

Two items.

1) Autonomy recruits army ants for search technology

From the IWR article:

British search technology company Autonomy is to launch new tools, which it says will mimic the behaviour of ants, to improve the discovery of fresh information.

Traditionally, search engines have used ‘spiders’ to sort content, which are limited to static information. Autonomy’s updated Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) will deliver an alert when an information source changes, allowing it to access the data that is most up to date.

The Cambridge-based firm dubbed the new search method Intelligent Ant Technology after an analyst warned that the need to capture information from frequently updated sources such as company databases required systems to “look beyond the spider”.

Source: Information World Review

2) Don't Forget DolphinSearch
From the site:

The DolphinSearch core search technology is the result of 15 years of advanced research into the extraordinary precision with which dolphins locate and recognize objects. From this patented technology, the DolphinSearch system was developed as a collaborative effort between legal, audit and compliance professionals and technical experts.

We first posted about DolphinSearch in 2002.

Category:

• Search News (ResourceShelf)

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