An Exceptionally "EEVL" Search Resource
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One of the most respected engineering gateways on the web has just released four new databases providing free access to hundreds of online scientific and technical journals.
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What's new in search? Found in the forums: Content on an E-commerce Site; Implications of CSS Layouts on SEO; First Year at SES NY; and more.
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IBM has created a free semantic e-mail search engine aimed at users of the company&#39;s Lotus Notes software and Microsoft Outlook.The engine, called IOPES (IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search), allows users to search their mail based on concepts, such as dates and phone numbers, according to IBM. It also allows searchers to define their own concepts.Once the software is installed, it indexes and analyzes the user&#39;s e-mail store. Searches are conducted through a browser interface that delivers results through a stripped-down, Google-like interface.Users can enter simple keyword-based queries or ones using basic natural language constructions. For example, to find e-mails from a friend named Mark Smith, you could simply enter &quot;from Mark Smith.&quot;But to find only the e-mails Smith sent in a certain month, a query might be constructed as &quot;Mark from January 2007.&quot; You could find his phone number by typing &quot;Smith&#39;s phone number.&quot;The results don&#39;t show a list of e-mail headers or display the messages in full. Instead, the software extracts the passage it believes contains the right answer, and highlights what it deems to be the specific information requested, such as a phone number.Users can also search for attachments with search results providing direct links to the documents in question.E-mail is a good target for developing a semantic search engine because users frequently repeat certain phrasings and words and repeatedly exchange the same type of information. &quot;There is a fairly large number of things that are so e-mail specific,&quot; said Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, the project&#39;s technical lead.Researchers in a number of IBM labs worked on the project for the past year and a half, according to Vaithyanathan. The product has been quietly available on the company&#39;s alphaWorks site for a couple of months, but only now is IBM attempting to drive widespread adoption, according to a spokeswoman.&quot;To be able to solve all these problems in some meaningful way, we want some feedback,&quot; Vaithyanathan said.IBM also released the tool internally to its employees and said it has received mostly positive responses.
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What's new in search? Found in the forums: Is SEO Necessary? Top Ten Search Factors 2007; Bringing SEM In-house; and more.
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Revamped search engine allows users to store and share results.
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Sara Golemon describes the path she took in a search for an OpenID library to work with in PHP. The trip took her through both PEAR and PECL with no promising results. Heading off to a Yahoo! search she comes up with one good result - Auth_OpenID.   Now, granted, this is the first OpenID system I've looked at, and I haven't really dug into it in depth, but I've got to say, this is some clean, well written code and the author clearly understands the maths involved (or at least fakes it shockingly good).   Knowing this, she asks "why isn't this in PEAR" if it's so well-structured and useful? It works with any version of PHP from 4 up and is smart enough to adapt itself to whatever the structure of your application might be.   There's also some great comments on the post where it's explained why the library isn't in PEAR, another OpenID package for PHP and suggestions for alternate distribution methods (PEAR channel).
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Michael Kimsal has come up with the start of a series to introduce PHP developers to the world of Grails (the Java framework).   The comparisons I plan to make will be mostly to PHP, cause that's what I'm most familiar with, though there may be some other comparisons from time to time.  This is a work in progress, but I'd be very interested in feedback from anyone out there interested in this aea - Grails, Groovy, PHP, why another language/platform/framework, etc.   The first two installments have been posted - part one and part two - with an introduction to what Grails is and a brief dip into some "Hello world" sort of code to give you an idea of the structure.
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Analysis of the BEA acquisition from Reg reader input â¦
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Redmond unveils its much-hyped search engine. Does the world change?
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Lukas Smith has posted his review of a book from Packt Publishing - "PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects: Practical PHP Mashups with Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, MSN Search, Yahoo!"   Duane from Pakt asked me if I would be interested in reviewing a few books for them in my blog. I picked "Mashup Projects" from the list of just released books, since I am interesting in the topic and I am actually going to give a presentation at the internal "PHP Day" we are doing at Optaros in November.   He points out the good (good writing style, well-chosen examples) and the bad (a log list of errors and oversights in the code). He also talks about the contents of the book - the different examples and the final more major project. Overall though, he sees it as a good book, one that would be a good introduction to mashups for PHP developers (if you look past the formatting issues).
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Hartmut Holzgraefe shares an interesting extension with the community in this new blog post - one for outputting to a Braille device.   And yet another library wrapper extension, this time for libbraille, a library providing a unified API for Braille output devices.   You can get the full details on the extension from its homepage and it can be installed via the pear system.
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Scoperta dei ricercatori del Wisconsin su scheletro silicio
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Language Implimentation Pack, that is
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There is an interesting post on OnLamp.com that mentions the search for a good wiki system. Read the post to find out why the author thinks that the wiki world "needs the kind of vision that will make the product more accessible, more polished, less prone to abandonment or neglect...", and the several comments that follow.
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Compiled by PAUL MONTELLA Sept. 19
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Niche search sites offer enhanced results for songs, movies, source code, engineering data and more -- for when the Google net spreads too wide.
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Relevancy of results has been the dominant theme in my semantic search posts so far. And in this piece I will be discussing about SenseBot, a search tool that has the added feature of summarizing results. Very often, the intent of a user is to obtain brief information on a concept or a keyword. In [...]