[Sigia-l] WebFountain

[Noreen Whysel]

The definition of this product seems very broad and full of marketing-ese.  
They say that managers are "still using newspapers, trade journals, web-page 
research, and the occasional professional reports to keep track of their 
business environment."  But I fail to understand how "managers" would 
benefit from a web crawl over an industry report, or why using published 
research is necessarily outmoded.  As for analysts, it could be a useful 
tool, but without a demo it is hard to see how it is different from other 
search engines and data mining tools that employ pattern recognition and 
probability.

Noreen

>From: Listera <listera at rcn.com>
>To: "'sigia-l at asis.org'" <sigia-l at asis.org>
>Subject: [Sigia-l] WebFountain
>Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:22:30 -0400
>
>So has anyone privileged to be working at a, ahem, large organization know
>anything more about IBM's answer to Google called WebFountain, in case 
>their
>large org has been approached by IBM?
>
>IBM Venture Development - WebFountain
><http://www-1.ibm.com/mediumbusiness/venture_development/emerging/wf.html>
>
>Ziya
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