Categorization Software Improves Search Capabilities

By Fred Hapgood

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All those trends have made autocategorization, and therefore smarter searching tools, a bright spot in today’s IT scene. Many companies have entered the sector. Some, such as Endeca or Mercado Software, specialize in the display and management of the categories that users see and interact with. Others, such as Applied Semantics, Autonomy and GammaSite, focus on the back end: looking at input documents and creating the meta-data the display tools need in order to work. Another set of companies, including longtime search player Verity, does both.

There’s no sign that advances in categorization and search technology will slow down anytime soon either. If searching is the foundation of all our relations with the online data, and categorization is the foundation of intelligent searching, then it seems likely that CIOs are going to be boosting the IQ of their searching tools for some time to come. Smart searching might very well become as important to the face of an enterprise as smart salespeople. n

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