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2014/02/09 Memex Aims to Create a New Paradigm for Domain-Specific Search

February 09, 2014

New program seeks user-defined, domain-specific search of public information, and plans to use its groundbreaking research to fight human trafficking 

Today's web searches use a centralized, one-size-fits-all approach that searches the Internet with the same set of tools for all queries. While that model has been wildly successful commercially, it does not work well for many government use cases.

For example, it still remains a largely manual process that does not save sessions, requires nearly exact input with one-at-a-time entry, and doesn't organize or aggregate results beyond a list of links.

Moreover, common search practices miss information in the deep web—the parts of the web not indexed by standard commercial search engines—and ignore shared content across pages.

More here http://www.darpa.mil/newsevents/releases/2014/02/09.aspx

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