Two Additions to Euro Search Vendor List
September 22, 2009
Readers have continued to shoot buckshot at my list of European search vendors. I appreciate the input and I am adding two vendors to the list.
The first is Exorbyte. The second is Silobreaker.
Exorbyte, founded in 2000, is a privately-held company. The firm is based in Switzerland, not far from Zurich. The firm says that its search technology is focused on “high-performance approximate search and data matching solutions for online ecommerce, directories and data quality applications.” The company offers Web extraction functions as part of its technology suite. The search function complements the firm’s navigation features to support database, directory, and catalog search. More information is available from the firm’s Web site.
Silobreaker, a company I have written about in my studies and in this Web log, continues to gain features and functions. The firm’s search system is speedy, but what sets the company apart is its ability to generate relationship maps, display data on topics in actionable reports, and widgets that make it easy to add specific Silobreaker functions to third –party applications or customized implementations of the Silobreaker system. The company told me:
Silobreaker is a search service for news and current affairs that aims to provide more relevant results to the user than what traditional search and aggregation engines have been offering so far. Instead of returning just lists of articles matching a search query, Silobreaker finds people, companies, organizations, topics, places and keywords; understands how they relate to each other in the news flow, and puts them in context through graphical results in its intuitive user interface.
More information is available from the Silobreaker Web site.
The vendor table addition rows are:
| Vendor | Function | Opinion |
| Exorbyte | Ecommerce and database search | The firm has a strong following for database and directory search. Blue chip clients. |
| Silobreaker | Search plus intelligence analysis | The company’s system processes content in real time and generates actionable reports on people, events, or concepts. |
Let me know of other vendors to include on this list.
Stephen Arnold, September 22, 2009
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Hello Stephen,
Thanks for the addition of our company to your list. BTW, a quick correction: we are based in Germany (near Zurich which IS in Switzerland). Yes I know it’s confusing. European borders are not always defined with usability in mind 😉
BTW, we just put online a pretty cool and relatively unpromotional white paper on AJAX incremental search (this is an interesting topic). We have done a lot of work in this area and have accumulated much knowledge about it. Have you covered this or whill you look at all the AJAX frameworks out there that have been making Google’s and many other search services so much pleasing to users? We believe that incremental search is one of the the new killer search apps. Here is the white paper:
http://www.exorbyte.com/index.php/Paper-Summaries/ajax-incremental-search-revisited.html
Thanks for your work.
Regards,
Dan
Managing Dir
Exorbyte Inc.
Dan, Managing Dir, Exorbyte Inc.
Well, the addled goose is an ugly American. I will make the fix. I appreciate your taking the time to help out a Kentucky resident. If you want to participate in the Search Wizards Speak series, write me at seaky2000 at yahoo dot com. I think your comments would be useful.
Stephen Arnold, October 1, 2009