Semantic search engine hakia is announcing today, at the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York, that it is licensing its proprietary OntoSem technology to other companies. This will enable third parties to build semantic search applications. The first such customer to be made public is RiverGlass, Inc, a provider of real-time analytics. RiverGlass will integrate hakia's OntoSem technology into its analysis software.
This is an interesting development by hakia - and has some parallels to the young Google, which you'll recall started out by licensing its search technology to the likes of Yahoo. But the parallels end there, because this move by hakia is more about licensing their underlying search technology to power the proprietary applications of other companies - whereas Google was a branded search app integrated into Yahoo's front-end.
According to hakia, this is what their OntoSem technology does:
Essentially, it will enable third parties to find and use "the meaning of language" in their applications. Hakia's definition of 'semantic search' by the way differs from the traditional Semantic Web definition, in that hakia search aims to automatically determine meaning from search queries using its algorithms - whereas Semantic Web is all about adding metadata to information to enable connections between data.
At this early stage there aren't any visuals from RiverGlass showing how they're using hakia technology, but the company told us that "we will see the biggest boon in increased relevancy of results".
Disclosure: hakia is a RWW sponsor
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This is a smart little engine just put it to work and didn't come up with much spam which makes a nice change from google.
my only problem is the name to be honest.
Posted by: Darren Stuart | March 18, 2008 4:35 PMI think Nokia might have a problem with it too.
Posted by: quackThe problem is that is very hard to find a really original name nowadays. By the way, we'll see how it works, it sounds interesting.
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