Implicit Search

Using the words that every person reads

Intelligent with many words in a query

The first people to see Grapeshot in action were senior personnel at Google, including Head of Search Quality at Google. Very few search tools deal with multiple-word queries - instead they invite users to type one or two words in a search box. Try pasting whole documents into Google or your favourite search engines and see the problem.... Unless words from news wires are placed in a search box in the identical sequence of a real news story, some search engines like Google go totally mad. Out of four hundred words, they cannot discern the valuable words.

Multiple-word queries advance new opportunities

Grapeshot's multiple-word query capability means you can build applications that intelligently link documents to advertisements, documents to documents, and documents to related people. Any page of text in your email or browser can be used to run a query, implicitly or explicitly. The ability to decipher significant words, implicitly, brings new intelligence to "search" functions that can give users' greater knowledge and insight, and give you clear advantage over your competitors.

The Grapeshot Advantage

• Suggest words on-the-fly - with no upfront costs associated with building and maintaining a taxonomy or rule book
• Process whole paragraphs as a multiple-word query - users can click an email or paragraph to get related documents or an application can implicitly "read" the user's clickstream inside intelligent business intelligence applications
• WordRank assigns weights to words - which then adjust adaptively according to user behaviour, allowing "concept halos" to be created for every user

The Grapeshot SDK is a software toolkit designed specifically for OEM usage with a comprehensive API for delivering Intelligent Search Architecture inside your own application. Built for a distributed, networked architecture, Grapeshot is small, robust and XML-based.

• Grapeshot's search SDK - the iSA Toolkit
• IBM using Grapeshot's "implicit search" capability to personalise WebSphere Portal