The means to know your information.
It sounds like a cliche, but for too long businesses and even individuals have been hampered by the shear difficulty of automating the task of leveraging what they know.
The challenge often begins with the diversity of places where such knowledge is held, including in peoples' heads. Often some of these sources aren't known about, or more likely still not appreciated for their full value. Added to this many of these sources contain little or no documented clues to their meaning, and what they do contain often doesn't equate with anything else.
Aside from the above you might wonder what's wrong with existing Search Solutions and how they can be improved to offer more value.
Well for starters they lack accuracy. Worse still accuracy decreases the more specific your search criteria are, which of course is just the sort of Search businesses need.
Added to which most current Search solutions offer little or no control over the presentation of results, are unable to target this to the requirements of specific Users, and when you do find what you want you can do little other than look at it.
A Data Repository to the Rescue.
Repositories are great at managing meaning within data, technically termed Meta Data.
In fact they are so good at it, their use tends to stop at Meta Data.
The traditional solutions for accessing Data, on the other hand, are typically poor at managing meaning largely because they are ill suited to the relationship rich complexities of Meta Data.
However, to support Advanced Search automated information resources must find the meaning in Data by combining it with Meta Data.
That's where a Data Repository comes in. It uniquely suited for this.
Seems obvious doesn't it? It may surprise you then to learn that not many have tried it, and the few that have weren't particularly successful.
Getting the combination right and deploying it as a simple packaged product has proved one of the greatest challenges in Information Technology. But the prize is enormous in terms of value added all round.
Introducing METAm8 Panacea for Advanced Search.
With METAm8 Panacea we believe we've got the balance just right, and the proof is in the commercialised implementations of our Advanced Search Engines. The proof is also in the order of magnitude leap in search accuracy particularly for criteria rich searches, accompanied by an equivalent leap in Seach functionality and the things you can do with Search results.
METAm8 Advanced Search offers:
- A leap in accuracy from typically under 15% for existing Search Engines to over 90% accuracy with us.
- Increasing Search Accuracy with the seriousness of the Search in terms of the number of criteria.
- Full control over Results; in terms of Sorting, Map Generation, Formatting, Audience specific Presentation, and delivery choices such as downloadable Spreadsheets or Documents.
Federated Search and Advanced Search Engine Generation.
METAm8 Panacea is a Federated Web Data Repository. You can find out what this is and why its needed by clicking here.
Suffice it to say here that Federation supports distributed control and Vertical Search. Further reasons why METAm8 Advanced Search excels at accurately finding the right information.
However, METAm8 Panacea is much more than all this.
It is actually an Advanced Search Engine Generator.
With this product you will be able to Publish one or more Search Engines from a single consolidated Knowledge Base. Each of which supports segmented knowledge access and if you wish its commercialization.
What's more, because information acquisition is crucial, and it's critical that such information is enriched with meaning, plug-in Data Integration and Web Spider services are available supporting automated meta data enrichment.
An Advanced Search Engine that's also a Multidimensional Directory.
In the battle for control of the Information Access market, Directories have largely lost out to Search Engines.
The resourcing overhead of manually Classifying and Cataloguing content, as well as the typically rudimentary Search Facilities have meant that Directories are not only many times more costly per Entry to operate than Search Engines, but also often less usable.
Low usability is further amplified by poor navigation structures where multidimensional criteria are forced into a fixed one dimensional hierarchy.
METAm8 Panacea, publishes integrated Directories and Advanced Search Engines which fix all the problems of traditional Directories:
- Manual content enrichment is replaced with automated classification, geo-locating, cataloguing and collating services.
- Advanced Search means our generated Directories benefit from the most sophisticated Search available.
- Multidimensional Browsing enables users to browse content by navigating directly to it, rather than via the winding path permitted by a single fixed hierarchy.
- Click Stream support maintains a record of the most recent pages you've visited and Searches you've made. You can even sub search this History.
- Sorting, Rendering and Delivery choices mean you can view directory content just how you want it, and even access it "through the glass" in the form of downloaded spreadsheets or documents.
See it running now.
Why not now check out our commercial implementations to get an idea of what this technology can deliver?
The following Advanced Search Engines/Directories are all deployed as applications generated by METAm8 Panacea:
- Remedy Index - a Comprehensive Natural Health Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine and one of the largest resources of its kind on the web.
- Doodar - Worldwide Web Repository, combining its own data with that of the 2 applications below:
- Scot Free - a Business and Travel Directory/Search Engine for Scotland, containing...
- Great Glen Direct - a Business and Travel Directory/Search Engine for the Great Glen region of the Scottish Highlands.
These search engines have attracted thousands of subscribers and hundreds of thousands of visitors. The Robot Entries were all created, classified, located down to map coordinates, catalogued and collated using our automated Population Services. They have nearly the same accuracy as entries manually submitted by our subscribers.
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