Burn and Churn in Content Processing 2010
December 10, 2009
The addled goose is awash in rumors, claims, and counter claims. We are now trying to unravel the following bits and pieces of information:
Is Siderean Software alive and well or in hibernatino? The Beyond Search team heard that one of the founders of Siderean, a developer of semantic content systems and methods, has moved to a big European publisher? The news on the site has been frozen at February 2008. We liked the firm’s approach to semantic content processing.
What are the properties owned by Mondo, a Danish company that was the subject of a Computerworld story? We have conflicting reports about who owns what software properties and the financial health of the various companies with similarly named products. We anticipate more local color from Hamlet’s home and the “to be or not to be” of these firms.
How can reports of a certain software company’s record breaking year match statements by a former employee? This vendor is in the womb-to-tomb business and operates from a location near Washington, DC? This is particularly baffling because public information reports a firm with the heart of a decathalon winner. The former employee is not on the same athletic field which is a crowded one when it comes of scanning and indexing paper documents.
What is the state of the acquisition of a search technology company that may be the object of desire by one of the world’s largest software companies? Sorry, the goose cannot point to the wooer or the wooee. This is a particularly troublesome item because it surfaces each year and then fades away. Baffling because the * big name * vendor’s search system is quite a challenged table tennis player.
Who is running the search and content processing show at Microsoft? The addled goose thought he heard one of the firm’s senior mangers reference a new sheriff in town? One rumor is that the new guru hails from the country trying to put Google executives in prison. We are chasing our pin tails on this one.
What’s going on in search and content processing? The addled goose is more confused than ever.
Stephen Arnold, December 11, 2009
Alert the US Postal Service! The goose buys stamps. No one at the USPS or anywhere else pays for this marketing Web log.
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