Trying Semantic Search Yourself

Most of you know that my job focuses on IBM's OmniFind enterprise search and text analytics products. And I've written before about

Can't find a phone number that you know someone e-mailed to you? Try " Pat phone" and find all the phone numbers for people named "Pat."

No matter how good your desktop search engine is, it finds only keywords. So it will find that PowerPoint file only if the e-mail has the words "PPT from Rob" and it will find the phone number only if the e-mail literally says "Pat phone" in it. But usually they don't. Usually they don't have the words "PPT" or "phone" in them. They just have the PPT attached. And they say "Call Pat at 332-456-5624."

I could talk about this until the cows come home. (I'm not sure when that is, but trust me that it's a long time from now.) It's better that you try it yourself. Go ahead. It's free. Download it and try it out—and let me know what you think.

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