Science.gov Release 3.0 Enhances Federated Search Portal for Science.gov Alliance
Los Alamos, N.M., Nov. 21, 2005 — Celebrating three years of success with the Science.gov portal, the Science.gov Alliance, a consortium of 12 Federal government agencies, launches its next generation: Science.gov 3.0.
The state-of-the-art search technology that powers Science.gov 3.0 is Deep Web Technologies' (DWT) ResearchAssistant(TM). It is the culmination of two years of research and development following six years of pioneering work in federated search. Science.gov 3.0 is built upon the scalable, distributed Grid-based architecture of ResearchAssistant(TM), providing a powerful user interface and sophisticated relevance ranking. The most relevant documents are quickly located and presented to the user in real time from a search of 30 databases containing most of the R&D output of the Federal government.
DWT's search engine capabilities extend vastly beyond those of search engines such as Google and Yahoo that are popular with the casual search user. The ResearchAssistant(TM) and its advanced search capabilities should be of special interest to researchers and other sophisticated searchers who need access to high-quality content that only lives in the "deep web." Included in the "deep web" is publicly accessible content, such as that in databases that are searched by Science.gov, and commercially available content provided by publishers as well as content that is internal to an organization.
ResearchAssistant(TM) is DWT's enterprise-wide search application. It is aimed at research organizations within the pharmaceutical, legal, oil and gas exploration fields, as well as government agencies, associations and other companies where timely access to and analysis of large numbers of documents is critical to success.
Dr. Walter Warnick, director of the US Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information is one of the pioneers of Science.gov. Speaking of the latest release of Science.gov Dr. Warnick notes, "I am not aware of any gateway or portal, either in government or in the private sector, that offers such precise searching and sophisticated relevance ranking of deep web sources."
Science.gov 3.0 is just the latest step in the evolution of a technology that gives users increasingly powerful and practical search capabilities.
About Deep Web Technologies:
Deep Web Technologies (DWT), based in Los Alamos, NM, is a leading developer of software that mines, aggregates and ranks content from difficult-to-access regions of the web, known as the deep web, containing the best scientific and technical content. In addition to Science.gov, DWT's technology powers major sites such as DOE's Energy Science and Technology Virtual Library ), the DoD community's MultiSearch Application (http://multisearch.dtic.mil), and the Association for University Centers of Disability Search Portal (http://search.aucd.org).
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