Comments on: Two new semantic engines: Cognition and Eeggi

Coming soon, perhaps: Cloud-based engines that will understand the queries you send them.

[BenjaminWright]

Rafe: In the legal world, e-discovery is a big topic. One response to e-discovery is to fear it and try to minimize the quantity of e-records you possess. An alternative response is to create and possess oceans of e-records and use advancing tech like semantic engines to tame those oceans in such a way that you achieve advantage over your legal adversaries. --Ben <a href="http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2008/08/e-discovery-strategy-search-artificial-intelligence.html">http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2008/08/e-discovery-strategy-search-artificial-intelligence.html</a>

[lgcii]

Personally, I'd be much more excited if this semantic ability were being used to help my next voice recognition software upgrade not choose nonsensical sequences of words as its best guess of what I said. My brand new version of the supposedly best common voice recognition app for PCs still exhibits this annoying problem about every two to three lines I dictate (and this occurs using one of the highest recommended headsets for that software).

YMMV, but I don't lose nearly as much time finding the right things on my web searches as I do making corrections when I'm dictating letters to my computer. On average the process of making corrections to the program's mistakes eats up perhaps a third of the time I spend composing such letters. That lost time I find very frustrating.

[jseville]

I'm all for better search engines and this is fascinating. More accurate search would only help me in business as a real estate blogger. However when I search Cognition for "Arlington Virginia condos" my site does even show up even though by far it has the most information about the subject for any "searcher" looking for info on the topic. This tells me they still have a long way to go with their algos or indexing.

jay
JustNewListings.com

[CharlesSKnight]

Hello,

We are very close to Cognition and eeggi. May I please republish this on AltSearchEngines.com with full attribution?

Thanks,

Charles Knight, editor
AltSearchEngines.com
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