IBM's WebFountain released

the Almaden spider mystery is resolved

[tedster]

After four years of intense spidering from IBM's Almaden research center that had many people wondering, IBM finally announced their search product, and it's not another free to use engine. It's a for-pay service that's aimed at businesses.

"While a regular search just does key word matching, our platform is able to put context into the text (on the Internet) and customize it for a corporation or a user," said IBM WebFountain President Robert Carlson...

It begins to associate names and people in articles about a certain subject and gathers specific information that can be used as a business intelligence tool, he said.

It would allow firms to track business trends or pick up scuttlebutt about their industry, themselves, their clients and their competitors by paying a fee for the use of the computer infrastructure each time they need data.

Article [dailytimes.com.pk]

[Brett_Tabke]

We have a thread around here somewhere from July about this....

Web fountain is just the tip of the iceberg.

[sun818]

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