Could IBM Shake up the Search Engine World?

overshoot writes "IBM has just tossed a bucket of chum into the whole search showdown, which Microsoft thought was between them and Google. Apparently, IBM Research has developed a 'key facts' search technology (as distinct from 'key words') over the last several years. Now they're going public with it -- by putting it on SourceForge under an OSS license!" (According to the article, it's expected to show up on SourceForge by the end of this year, not immediately.)

http://almaden.ibm.com/cs/crawler

[Urgo]

wfp2.almaden.ibm.com - - [08/Aug/2005:15:48:34 -0400] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 69 "-" "http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/crawler [fc7]"
wfp2.almaden.ibm.com - - [08/Aug/2005:15:48:38 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 41317 "-" "http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/crawler [fc7]"

I've been getting once a day connections on my server from ibm for quite some time now (a year or so). Doesn't surprise me in the least. :)

Get it now

[QuantumG]

Unstructured Information Management Architecture SDK [ibm.com]. The UIMA SDK (Software Development Kit), is an all-JavaTM implementation of the UIMA framework, and it supports the implementation, description, composition, and deployment of UIMA components and applications. It also supports the developer with an Eclipse -based development environment that includes a set of tools and utilities for using UIMA.

Go you crazy Java dudes, go.

Just ignore the link in the slashdot item

[hackwrench]

The important information is simply the url http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/uima/ [ibm.com]

Re:not a web search engine

[b0r1s]

The Google appliance is marketed (if not in the online docs, at least in person) as an enterprise tool for organizations to search their internal data. While this ceratinly isn't their primary revenue stream, this tool would in fact compete with that aspect of Google's business.

Re:Google?

[confusion]

I'm guessing that IBM has a 50% higher market cap, 30X Google's revenues and $110B in assets doesn't come into play here?

Jerry

Little to do with opponents...

[AutopsyReport]

From the article... "I don't see any of the major players moving into this area," Arthur Ciccolo, head of search technology at IBM Research, said of how major consumer Internet search companies such as Google, Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft have focused on the public Internet instead of private record data retrieval.

And from the Slashdot summary... IBM has just tossed a bucket of chum into the whole search showdown, which Microsoft thought was between them and Google.

No, IBM's technology has little to do with Google, Yahoo or Microsoft's search technology. This isn't a competition until either three introduce similar technology. Reading the article's third paragraph would clarify this, and would make the summary a little more accurate, too.

Why wait for SourceForge?

[r_jensen11]

It's available now [ibm.com]. As the article says:

UIMA technology is expected to be made available through open-source software site SourceForge by the end of 2005. The UIMA framework can currently be downloaded free of charge from IBM AlphaWorks at http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/uima/ [ibm.com].

So, I ask, why wait for it to appear on SF if we can get it now?

Re:What is still missing...

[nostriluu]

You could start with this: http://www.yacy.net/yacy/ [yacy.net]

eBay runs on Sun, not IBM.

[NeoBeans]

Is that why powerhouses such as Ebay use it as well as other IBM products such as Websphere?

That was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away. eBay now runs on Sun [ebay.com].

Re:Just ignore the link in the slashdot item

[SnprBoB86]

Definitely read/skim the SDK User's Guide http://dl.alphaworks.ibm.com/technologies/uima/UIM A_SDK_Users_Guide_Reference.pdf [ibm.com]

The annotator premise is almost too simple; it's brilliant.

Re:Why wait for SourceForge?

[Anonymous Coward]

um, because it's closed source right now