Xerox: The Enterprise Search Company?; Review of Selected Xerox Search Patents
Yes, it's true according to an article from Forbes.com that Xerox is wanting to get into the enterprise search game. Forbes calls them an "unlikely" player but ResourceShelf isn't so sure. Over the past few years, while most of us have been focusing on other companies, Xerox has been doing lots of work in the search and IR space. Since we do our best to track search-related patents, we've seen enough Xerox patents and patent apps that clearly illustrate that Xerox wants to be a search player.
Researchers at the document-management company’s European R&D center announced Wednesday that they’ve developed a new type of search technology, called FactSpotter, which can handle natural human phrases, and search for related results that include synonyms and pronouns within a document.
KnowItAll, a search engine under development at the University of Washington, Seattle, trawls the web for data and then collates it in the form of a list. The approach is unique, says its developer, Oren Etzioni, because it generates information that probably does not exist on any single web page.
See Also: Xerox Has Also Licensed Some of Its NLP Technology to Powerset, an NLP-powered web engine (for the consumer marketplace) coming soon. We posted a new item about Powerset last week.
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