[Sigia-l] Infinite search results - Transparensee

[Dave]

Didn't think that was a sales pitch ... I was outting my bias. AND
when I say I have had little to do w/ it, I mean REally a little. I
don't make a penny from this product. The owner is a friend, he asks
me to review every once in a while and I oblige for free. I mean,
Geez, Marcel, people put up links with a lot less info than I did on
this forum w/o nearly as much hassel.

As for the answers to your questions I can't answer them directly.

I did say that i was based on controlled vocabularies, thesauri, etc.
It is not faceted based. Out of the search engines you mentioned I
know Endeca a little bit. My understanding though is that
Transparensee is more specific than Endeca and I don't know the
technology and setup as much as I know the user scenarios. As far as I
can tell Endeca doesn't quite work the same way of having metadata
relationships applied to items so that if I chose "Catholic" that it
knows "other christian groups" are higher relevancy than Jewish, Islam
or Buddhist. It might even say Orthodox (Greek, Russian, etc.) is
higher than Protestant (or not).

So the relationships have to be hard coded into the system for string
based metadata like this one. For numbers, maybe range relationships
are created. The system is setup specifically to the user scenarios in
more of an application sense, than a search engine which is usually
not configured for user scenarios quite so strictly. Also, this does
not work against an index like a search engine does, but it works
directly against the database.

-- dave


On 4/15/05, Marcel van Mackelenbergh <marcelvanmackelenbergh at home.nl> wrote:
> > http://www.transparensee.com/about/2005-04-12-classified.pdf
> 
> Come on Dave, this is a serious discussion group, not your sales pitch.
> Can you explain a little about what's under the hood? Does it use
> faceted classification? Automatic classification? Why would it be better
> than Ultraseek or Autonomy? Is it better than Endeca?
> 
> Marcel
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