[Sigia-l] WebFountain

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"Noreen Whysel" wrote:

> 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.


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