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"Web Search engines most often operate on the idea that their tools are supposed to represent the fastest way between a user's search query and a site that will represent a fitting information content to satisfy a "information need". The main challenge is therefore about building ranking algorithms that will find the "best" site and put it into first place. While this approach has been highly successful it also neglects the user's ability to interact, select, navigate, analyze - in short, to be an active agent and a stakeholder in the search process. Our proposal is the technical manifestation of a simple concept: instead of reducing the search phase to a minimum we believe that there is much to be gained by presenting a semantically rich interface to users; this interface can be used to either navigate in a list of results (1000 in the case of our current prototype) or to refine the search query. The "termcloud" and "cluster" views give a quick overview of a topic by showing which terms are significant, their relative frequency and the relations that exist between them. This way the user gets an idea of the topic before even visiting a Web site from the result list. We hope that this approach will help users in digging deeper than the first couple of results and explore the regions of the Web that might not be so easy to find with a regular, hit-driven search engine."

"The goal of this study is to expand our understanding of the relationships between selected tasks, cognitive abilities and search result interfaces. The underlying objective is to understand how to select search results presentation for tasks and user contexts"

"Pour Marc Van Rymenant, la meilleure façon de ne pas perturber un internaute, c'est de rester dans le chemin de ce qu'il est venu faire. "Le mode d'interaction n'est pas plus important que le contenu", explique-t-il. "Il faut surtout éviter le désengagement de l'internaute". Un bémol tout de même, l'étude a été menée uniquement auprès d'étudiants, souvent extrêmement familiers avec Internet. "Les conclusions de l'étude sont à modérer", explique Marc Van Rymenant. "Il y a un décalage avec la réalité d'Internet"."

"SOPHIA has been designed to address these recognised limitations. SOPHIA is unique in that it addresses the 'search problem' from a linguistic view point as opposed to from a purely mathematical perspective. It is based on an established model of language called Semiotics which describes how we understand and interpret the meaning of signs and texts in context. We don't argue that SOPHIA should replace Boolean search entirely - moreover it is a complementary tool that provides an enriched search experience that enables users to browse, navigate, discover and understand their information in context. SOPHIA has a 3-tier architecture designed for OEM and ease of integration with Development Partners. Contact sales@sophiasearch.com to explore Working Together on a project or application that can be enhanced and developed by a relationship with SOPHIA's semantic search technology."

"Exalead® est un fournisseur de logiciels de recherche et d'accès à l'information en entreprise et sur le Web. Sa solution Exalead CloudView est une plate-forme incontournable dans le secteur innovant des Search-Based Applications (SBAs). La société compte aujourd'hui plus de 250 clients dans le monde, certains leaders dans leur domaine, comme ViaMichelin, American Greetings, GEFCO, Société Générale, Air Liquide ou encore Sanofi Aventis R&D."

Adds a chat feature on top of any website, which is accessible to any one you share the link with. Interesting option to connect the discussion with in the context of the material.

Google Image Swirl organizes image search results into groups and sub-groups, based on their visual and semantic similarity and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface.

"Google Search Appliance (GSA) can show users tweets from Twitter next to their internal Search Appliance results."

"Cette application web permet aux internautes d'accéder à des articles présentés sous la forme de pages web (vignettes) et de les feuilleter (flip) virtuellement. Les articles sont classés par catégories : technologies, économie, politique, divertissement, articles les plus populaires, etc. L'internaute peut passer très rapidement d'un article à l'autre en pointant sur les flèches à droite ou à gauche des séries de vignettes. Lorsque l'internaute double-clique sur un article/vignette, il accède directement au site web du journal concerné. Néanmoins, en un seul clic, la lecture depuis la vignette choisie est aisée."

"This is going to be the first of a couple of posts related to Voronoi Tessellations, Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations and Voronoi TreeMaps. In this post I'll explain what a Voronoi Tessellation is, what can it be used for, and also I'll describe an interesting algorithm for creating a Voronoi Tessellation given a set of points (or sites as I'll call them from now on)."

"Créé par Sprylogics International, le moteur de recherche Cluuz analyse également les relations entre les mots clés. L'outil propose à l'utilisateur de se laisser guider pour mieux approfondir la recherche. Les résultats sont affichés visuellement, sous la forme de toiles d'araignée. Il pioche ses résultats chez Yahoo, Live Search, Alexa et Technorati. Sa bêta grand public vient juste d'être lancée."

"SearchWeb is a tool for finding BBC content by generating a tree of links to relevant pages throughout the site. This system complements the BBC ranked-list search by enabling users to see the context and structure of a large number of results simultaneously, and also by drilling down for results in specific sections of the site.\n\nThe form of the visualisation is a navigable tree of web page nodes, with the BBC homepage at the centre and the result URLs forming branches around it. The main branches represent sections of the BBC site such as News or Learning, and are colour coded to show the proportionate number of results for each area.\nSearchWeb was developed in ActionScript3, using the Polygonal 'AS3 Data Structures For Game Developers' libraries http://lab.polygonal.de/ds/\nWe hope to release the source code for this project. We will make an announcement on the blog if we do so."

"Présentation graphique des pages (ressemble à un groupe de post-it ou des images "pinnées" sur un babillard)"

"interface de restitution graphique des résultats proposés par Exalead lors d'une requête. Au lieu de vous restituer une liste d'URL comme dans un moteur de recherche classique, Constellation réorganise donc les résultats proposés en fonction des liens qu'ils entretiennent entre eux (échange de liens, thématiques proches, ...)"

"Cluuz is a next generation search engine platform that returns better results then traditional engines by going beyond simply listing links. Cluuz patent pending core technology, understands the relationship between the entities and terms searched leading to more relevant, easy to understand search results. Cluuz peers into the searched web pages and documents, extracts important terms, clusters them and displays them in chart format (semantic graph). The Cluuz search engine and Cluuz enterprise can tackle structured and unstructured data, alike. See for yourself at www.cluuz.com"

#1: Semiotics: the power behind SOPHIA Search #2: Why Search by Meaning and in Context? #3: The Power of Thematic Search #4: Document Semantic Neighbourhoods #5: When is Similar actually Similar? #6: SOPHIA's Intelligent Ranking & Filtering #7: Understanding meaning in Documents #8: Search by Example #9: Functionality: Sharing & Intelligent Alerting #10: SOPHIA Architecture

"Perhaps the world's first, we are proud to announce our upcoming Commercial Ontology (CO). What is a commercial ontology? If you asked this question you have just touched on an important distinction: fantasy versus reality. In the context of World Wide Web, the CO is the realistic version of an ontology for the reasons explained below. (...) The immediate use of the CO is related to search queries, or document characterizations, that are not tied to any advertising in conventional systems. This unrecognized domain of search queries and characterizations means loss of revenue. hakia's CO is designed to fill this gap. For example, if the search query or page characterization is "beat generation" the CO can map it to "literature" on the fly. As a result, systems using the CO will have much deeper understanding of the incoming terms, thus will be able to recognize the underlying intent beyond the face value of the words. The same capability can be used in a number of places other than advertising with the same effect. "

"Pour l'université de Rutgers, un internaute réalise plus rapidement et efficacement une recherche si le moteur affiche simultanément une liste de résultats et un nuage mettant en avant les mots-clés présumés."

"un moteur de recherche dont la représentation visuelle diffère totalement de ce que l'on a l'habitude de voir avec un moteur de recherche. Ici, pas de liste ordonnées de liens, pas de nombre de pages de résultats, ni de liens sponsorisés mais une représentation visuelle dans l'espace de l'information demandée. 3 grandes fonctionnalités à noter :\n\n * Explorer les relations entre l'entité recherchée et l'univers qui l'entoure.\n * Retrouver facilement de l'actualités qui justifient les relations affichées à l'écran.\n * Personnaliser l'affichage en changeant le nombre d'informations affichées, classée par type (entreprises, organismes, personnes, villes et mots-clés)."

"The main utility is to provide internal search function within organization's document repository. Options include other vital functions like powering a consumer facing search, providing targeted Web search to the workers inside the corporation, external news monitoring and alerting, harvesting quality content from the Web to enrich organizations' information repository, and categorization of documents for better management."