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...reportedly pumped more than $100 million into WebFountain. To date, the market has been dominated by a handful of small companies like ClearForest, Inxight and Intelliseek. Over the next year, Big Blue aims to roll out a flurry of new Web-scale information-discovery services. While IBM is closemouthed about specifics, the intelligence community is among the hungriest customers of such advanced, large-scale text analytics. The CIA's venture-funding arm, for example, has invested one-third of its $30 million portfolio in data mining and text/visual analytic companies like Inxight. When it comes to tracking terrorist threats, says...
...implies idle curiosity. But for information-dependent businesses, the reality is different. "Companies have spent billions of dollars on intranet infrastructures, knowledge management systems and customer relationship management systems, and the best return on investment they've had so far is e-mail," says Mahendra Vora, CEO of Intelliseek, one of several new companies aiming to unlock the potential of the invisible Web for their customers. Launched in Cincinnati in 1997, the firm (www.intelliseek.com) began providing deep search resources for individual researchers, but its real targets are the intranets of global corporations. Among its biggest clients are Goldman Sachs...
...Companies like Intelliseek, BrightPlanet and Moreover (see box) are part of a business intelligence technology market that will grow, according to the technology research firm IDC, from $3.6 billion this year to $11.9 billion in 2005. They are not necessarily a threat to traditional data-peddlers, such as Dialog and Lexis-Nexis, which have been delivering information to businesses since before the World Wide Web was invented and have archives stretching back decades. But their focus on the flickering, free or low-cost information of the here and now is something the old guard will have to respond...
...Intelliseek's software can be set up to monitor and query the databases of news sites, chatrooms and Usenet groups for trends, product information, gossip about your company and your competitors. "We identify the best sources for a topic, company or individual then mine the information automatically, aggregate it, filter it, clean it, index it, relevance-rank it, auto-categorize it and move it into the matrix," says Vora. Often the most useful information is already sitting on a company's own network. E-mail from customers and clients can be a goldmine if it's harvested and made searchable...
...Medium to large companies can expect to pay between $100,000 and $300,000 a year for Intelliseek's services. Individual searchers can exploit some of the same expertise for free at www.profusion.com, where handpicked collections of resources are grouped and searchable by subject. More specialized and tightly focused search tools are the kind of solutions to the invisible Web's sprawl you can expect to see more of, says Barbara Quint, editor of Searcher, a journal for database professionals. "What you get are high quality sites, preselected directories and metadata [data about data] collections. They may be a minuscule...
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