In Search of a Better Web:

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Duane Bemister "Business requirements for finding information are complex and may require a spectrum of tools that extend beyond a simple search engine," says Susan Feldman, IDC's Research Vice President for Content Technologies. IDC says the average employee spends 3.5 hours every week on searches that fail to locate the desired document and another three hours recreating content that could not be found. When you search the Web most of the resulting pages contain less than 500 words. This is one of the reasons you get back so many useless hits. Research shows that the known Internet (approximately 20 billion pages) is growing by more than 10,000,000 new, static pages each day. In contrast, the fastest growing search engine database is increasing at about 10% of this pace and so far has indexed less than 20% of the total pages. Most of the search community believes advances in web search from Google and others will now take place incrementally, by squeezing a bit more from Google's Pagerank, or by tuning relevance, or indexing hard to find files. But for the next leap to happen, many forward thinkers believe a new architecture must be built. What if there was a parallel web that contained content that was made up of multi page documents that were "filed" in libraries that could be searched individually without getting all the chaff? What if anyone could add to these libraries without requiring any knowledge of hypertext markup language by simply enabling a menu item on their computer? Wouldn't it be great if you could just put your word, pdf and text files in a folder and then let anyone on the internet access them for research, including the ability to download any of the documents to add to their own libraries. They should also have the ability to annotate any page of these documents for bookmarking and collaboration. What if you could do all of this efficiently over a slow dial up connection? Now you can. Introducing, The Little Search Engine That Could... Change Everything Research, Annotate, Acquire and Share your documents, using any web browser, anywhere at 200,000 pages per second with the WebSonar Document Server

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WebSonar in Action...

WebSonar is used to search specific groups of documents called libraries. Each library has it's own search page describing the content. You can use the folder links at the bottom of each search page to navigate to another library. Clicking on the folder labeled MORE... moves up one level where you can access more libraries.

The BCUC library contains more than 10,000 documents, over 400,000 pages of the British Columbia Utilities Commission documents. The California Law library contains code and case law sample documents.

WebSonar searches at the page level (Deep Water Search Engine). When viewing any page of a document you can annotate the page using the "Notes" link. The page can then be recalled later by searching the notes for any of the appended text.

You can create your own library by installing WebSonar and copying your documents into the library folder on your own computer. WebSonar dynamically converts your document content to HTML and has a built in web server to display the search results to the requesting client. You can publish your library on the Internet by simply turning on remote access in the WebSonar application.

WebSonar can search one million documents in less than 3 seconds!

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