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• Powersoft is mildly interesting
• 4 days ago
• Powerset has done a great job of generating buzz for it’s version of smart search. That said, their current demo is mediocre — and that’s being polite. Powerset currently indexes little more than just Wikipedia, and the quality of its search results is about comparable to that of Wikipedia’s justly reviled internal search engine. [...] ...

• Text Analytics Summit and associated Seth Grimes white paper
• 8 days ago
• Ironically coming right after a Google indexing problem, I am putting up my first sponsored blog post ever. It’s in connection with the forthcoming Text Analytics Summit, at which I will be speaking (in Boston) on June 16. The post itself offers a free white paper by the estimable Seth Grimes. Text Analytics News [...] ...

• Google seems to have rehabilitated us
• 8 days ago
• As previously noted, we were de-indexed by Google, due to the injection of a whole lot of spammy hidden links. We’re back now, after about two weeks, even on the blog (this one) where there was no official de-indexing notice and hence no way to apply for re-consideration. And thus we once [...] ...

• Mark Logic viewed as a different kind of text search technology vendor
• 17 days ago
• I’m putting up two posts this morning on Mark Logic and it’s MarkLogic product family. The main one, over on DBMS2, outlines the technical architecture — focusing on MarkLogic as an XML database management system — and provides a bit of overall context. This post attempts to position MarkLogic against alternative kinds of text [...] ...

• Twitter is indeed replaceable
• 21 days ago
• Dennis Howlett believes any hope of monetizing [Twitter] rests upon reliability at scale. He’s part right. Michael Arrington disagrees, essentially asserting that Twitter has become an unshakable monopoly due to the network effect, but his reasoning is flawed. As Arrington surely knows, but seems in this case to be overlooking, the first vendor [...] ...