IBM announces search technology plans
9 August 2005
IBM has announced that it will be offering key search technologies for corporate data retrieval that use concepts and facts.
The global computer giant said the technologies were designed to replace simpler "keyword" searches that consumer search companies such as Google rely on.
"I don't see any of the major players moving into this area," Arthur Ciccolo, head of search technology at IBM Research, said.
IBM plans to openly offer other software developers its Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA), which examines text within documents and other media and extracts latent meanings, relationships and facts, Reuters news agency reports.
The IBM system focuses on private data retrieval rather than the lucrative public search arena, dominated by firms like Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
Fifteen companies, including ClearForest, Inquira, nStein and Temis, plan to use UIMA for search and text analysis of records, IBM announced in a statement.
The tech firm is also offering its WebSphere OmniFind software for searches on unstructured data and is expected to be made available through open-source software site SourceForge by the end of 2005.
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