http://arnoldit.com/wordpress by Stephen E. Arnold Fri, 16 May 2008 21:52:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en LTU Technologies in France is putting its well-regarded image search technology to work in a proprietary trademark database. The LTU system compare a submitted digital image against the database to confirm an already extant trademark or industrial design. You can read about that here. Click quickly. Some of news stories ... http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/05/16/ltu-challenging-the-thomson-reuters-trademark-fortress/ In San Francisco earlier this week, I spent some time with one of my tech pals. In the course of the conversation, we talked about the lousy margins on hardware, even the flashiest gear from HP, IBM, and Sun. He said, "Too much cost, not enough fast cash." He also ... http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/05/16/google-mini-signals-maxi-change/ Access Innovations Inc., a data management systems company, is releasing version 3.4 of its Data Harmony software suite, and it sounds like a sweet deal. The five-component software is used to make and maintain taxonomies, thesaurus, and indexing systems. Data Harmony focuses on accuracy, precision, and repeatability in its search results, ... http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/05/16/data-harmony-update-a-suite-release/ A colleague in San Francisco asked me on May 14, 2008, "How do the search engine vendors position themselves?" I told him that I would think about the question on the luxurious red-eye flight from SFO to Detroit. I did. I worked through the files on my trusty laptop and compiled ... http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/05/16/enterprise-search-vendors-taglines/ The Google Search Appliance is a pretty nifty gizmo when you know how to "pimp" your GSA with the One Box API. On May 15, 2008, the GOOG confirmed what I heard at the Where 2.0 conference yesterday afternoon: Google Translate now handles another 10 languages. You can read the ... http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/05/15/google-translate/ We live in a world of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 goodness. At the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, California on May 14, 2008, I overheard this snippet of conversation: We had everything working, but when we imported content, the system crashed. I reinstalled. I checked the config files. It still ... http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/05/15/content-transformation-a-challenge-that-wont-go-away/ Clarabridge, a “customer experience management vendor,” recently scored a posh client in Gaylord Hotels, who wants to utilize text analysis to review customer satisfaction surveys. Keeping millionaires happy requires technology. The Clarabridge contract will install its content mining platform at Gaylord properties. The goal: to relate textual commentary to a satisfaction ... http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/05/15/new-contract-for-clarabridge/ Semantra asserts that it is a "pioneering developer of conversational analystics software", or so it says in the news release a helpful person sent me. The companies "conversational analytics" application pushes "beyond key word search" because a user can use "common language commands to retrieve specific information from back end databases". ... http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/05/15/semantra-and-conversational-analytics/ The IDG news service reported on May 12, 2008, that Vertica Systems will offer business intelligence as a service. You can read the complete IDG story here. Please, navigate to it quickly, since some IDG items can become tough to locate a few days after they appear. The computing horsepower ... http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/05/15/vertica-and-cloud-based-business-intelligence/ The buzz about semantic search is rising. Powerset's demonstration using Wikipedia data has triggered interest in searching in more intuitive ways. I received a news item about Semantra http://www.semantra.com, another player in this search market segment. The Library of Congress is in the game too. There's an interesting news ... http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/05/14/the-library-of-congress-and-semantic-search/