Persistent Search

Ontologies are the key to making persistent search a reality. Imagine a search application that would scan the web (blogs, pages, chat, et all) and all your private data sources within a domain, and keep you up to date on key topics, trends in those topics. You may use the application through a dashboard that lists all of the relevent documents under a topic, but then says that if you read these three, you don't need to read the 1,256 others. You would use this dashboard daily or more. Compare this dashboard idea with how you get information today via one off searches and key word alerts. Persistent search would be an anaysts dream. It can do this because the application is reading all of the unstructured text, drawing linkeages between key ideas and summarizing them for you automagically. Ontologogies are the key and bring all of this information into context. According to RiverGlass, ontologies are the description of entities, relationships, terms, concepts that consitute the knowledge of a domain. Ontologies are a layer to the Riverglass application architecture that interacts with their analytics that make true persistent search a reality.
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