Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Natural Language Searching

A couple of interesting articles:
It's always fun to try to spot the next winner. This article is an advanced peak at a company claiming to be able to put more language understanding into searching. This of course is a better way of asking and answering questions than any of the viable search engines of today -- but, many people have tried to do this before and failed for a variety of reasons.

If these guys can actually:
  • understand questions without limiting themselves to a specific domain
  • understand web sites without limiting themselves to a specific domain
  • do this quickly
then, they have a winner. Otherwise, it's more of the same hype and failures.

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