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Making Common Sense out of Search with Semantics on Dorthy.com

We all live with keyword search and to varying degrees share common frustrations around our search experiences. Out of necessity, we have had to grow skilled at filtering our own search results by continually tweaking our keywords, and searching within our searches. When the search engine misses the mark, our computer crashes, or we get distracted by Twitter and forget what we were really looking for, we often repeat the whole...

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Why Search Is Broken, and How Semantic Search Fixes It

A human gets information by asking a question to get an answer, but online, we’ve been forced to learn “keyword” searches. The thinking was that we could extract meaning from several abstract words (aka keywords) most closely related to what we were seeking. The problem is that this does not work in getting a real answer. As we’ve started to see with new developments in search techniques from EyePlorer,...

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