Federated Search: True Enterprise Search

1. Federated Search:True Enterprise Search Abe Lederman, President and CTO Deep Web Technologies Search Engine Meeting – April 28-29, 2008

2. Who We Are… Founded in 2002 Headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico 20 Employees Over $2 million in R&D through DOE SBIR program DWT is focused on providing state-of-the-art federated search products and solutions which search, retrieve, aggregate and analyze content from web-based databases.

3. Enterprise Search • Crawl and index internal content into a master index • Searching of this index is intended • for internal users Some searchers think that all of a companies’ information is available through a corporate portal.

4. Federated Search Two Meanings • Real-time search of multiple disparate data sources • Batch indexing of information from multiple information sources into a single master index. Web Service Read:What’s in a name: Federated Search August 2007 Newsletter http://www.ideaeng.com Managed Service or Customer-Hosted

5. An Enterprise’s Information Universe Firewall Subscription Content Vendor and Partner Sources Corporate Intranet R&D Databases Federated Search Sales & Marketing Documents Email Repositories Competitor Web Sites Government Databases Manufacturing Databases

6. Limitations of Enterprise Search • Scalability – Not feasible to index all desired content into a master index. • Cost – Too expensive to create a master index of all content. • Ownership of content – Internal content owners and licensors of subscription content won’t permit their content to be indexed. • Security – Difficult to enforce content security and privacy requirements.

7. True Federated SearchSolves These Limitations • Current information is available at all times without costly duplication • Authentication and security requirements of content can be enforced in real-time. • Easy and inexpensive to create a portal that searches hundreds of information sources at the same time.

8. True Federated SearchSolves These Limitations (cont.) • Creation and update of content is left to experts. • Federated search can integrate well with content accessible through one or more Enterprise Search portals.

9. Enterprise-Level Federated Search... (not the same as Federated Search for Libraries) • Enterprise federated search authentication needs are more complex. • Search requirements are more demanding. • Information Sources are much more heterogeneous in Enterprise Search.

10. Federated Search-Not the answer to all... • Indexed content is easier to relevance rank. • Hard to implement taxonomies in Federated Search • Advanced search syntax such as proximity searching, case sensitive searching and thesaurus-based searching may not be implemented by Federated Search. • Federated Search is unable to search highly custom databases such as a parts database.

11. Federated Search can be a discovery tool.

12. Deep Web’s Federated Search Gallery

13. Climate Change

19. Thank You! We are looking for corporate partners for our Enterprise-level Federated Search. Contact me via email: abe@deepwebtech.com