IBM's concept of "the future of search"

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NYT 12/26/04 At I.B.M., That Google Thing Is So Yesterday
SUDDENLY, the computer world is interesting again. The last three months of 2004 brought more innovation, faster, than users have seen in years. The recent flow of products and services differs from those of previous hotly competitive eras in two ways. The most attractive offerings are free, and they are concentrated in the newly sexy field of "search."

Last week I visited the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, 20 miles north of New York, to hear six I.B.M. researchers describe their company's concept of "the future of search."

  • OmniFind
  • Piquant (Jennifer Chu-Carroll)

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~sashabg/docs/IBM_notebook_final.pdf

  • The Semantic Analysis Workbench (Eric Brown, Dave Ferrucci)

MR. CICCOLO, the search strategist, said that in a way his team was trying to match - and reverse - what Google has achieved. "As Google use became widespread, people began asking why it was so much easier to find material on the external Web than it was on their own computers or in their company's Web sites," he said. "Google sets a very high standard for that Web. We would like to set the next standard, so that people will find it so easy to do things at work that they'll wonder why they can't do them on the Internet." How soon might this happen? He said, with a chuckle, "Well, if I could freeze what everyone else is doing, it could be in two years." The great part is, the competition won't be frozen. At least this part of the future looks bright.

Inside Google 12/26/04 IBM Joins The Search Game
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2004/12/26/ibm-joins-the-search-game/