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IBM Tackles Web-Mining Competition for Search Engines?
IBM Tackles Web-Mining CNN.com has a new feature: Ask Jeeves Seeks to Solve Search Query. When one of the biggest IT companies - with a reputation of steel, who's just registered more patents in 2001 than anyone else, and who pioneered the popular 'link' technology used by Google - tackles the market of web data-mining, existing search engines can start to sweat. They're going to unveil some new technology about this next month, aiming to mine the net in a scalable and efficient fashion. If ever combined with a quality search mechanism, this could revolutionise the SE market. I'm a firm believer of the potential of data-mining in Artificial Intelligence, so this release will have a positive impact on the field. Also, AskJeeves licensed Tehoma's technology last year, which aims to understand web pages 'better' than current search engines. They use context dependent parsing (which allows them to understand the scope of the any given text), and dynamic topic clustering (for searches that match your query better). One problem, however, is that Tehoma has not yet shown the ability to scale-up like Google, handling over 2 billion documents... this is a great limiting factor. Let's hope AskJeeve's question matching technology also takes a step up: there's a lot to be improved upon from a Natural Language Processing point of view! | Alex J. Champandard 935 posts. Thursday 10 January, 12:25 Reply