LOS ALAMOS, N.M., May 12, 2004 — In a Washington, D.C. ceremony yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham unveiled a major new release of the popular Science.gov (http://science.gov) web site. Science.gov 2.0 provides search access to 47 million pages in real time, comprising the output of 12 major Federal government science agencies coming together in a unique partnership, the Science.gov Alliance, to share their best science information.
Specifically for Science.gov 2.0, Deep Web Technologies developed and deployed an advanced proprietary search technology, QuickRank, to search the contents shared by the Science.gov 2.0 member agencies. The QuickRank technology, as its namesake implies, quickly processes, sorts, ranks and sifts through thousands of search results, returning outstanding matches. QuickRank sets the bar higher, vastly outperforming other technologies.
QuickRank is part of Deep Web Technologies' cutting-edge Distributed Explorit technology. Distributed Explorit employs federated searching and retrieval technologies to simultaneously seek information in numerous online databases. While the technology is sophisticated, searching is intuitive. Users don't need to learn a different search language for each database and the results from all database searches are combined into one results page with links to individual documents.
Distributed Explorit's capabilities extend vastly beyond those of the popular search engines in that it searches the "deep web," which consists of a large collection of databases that typically contain much higher quality content than that which is available with the "surface" search engines such as Google and Lycos.
"The search technology behind Science.gov 2.0, QuickRank, is far superior to the technology we developed for the original December 2002 Science.gov release," explains Abe Lederman, QuickRank's creator and Deep Web Technologies' President and CEO. "We've learned a lot about how to do fast searches and bring back the most relevant documents in the last year and a half." But Lederman is not one to be complacent. Planning is already underway for cutting-edge work for Science.gov 3.0.
Science.gov is the brainchild of Dr. Walter Warnick, director of the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) who applauds Deep Web Technologies' newest offering: "QuickRank is quite an achievement. We have tens of millions of pages stored in a number of repositories. The goal is to connect the world of science. To our patrons this means they should be able to locate the best documents quickly and they shouldn't have to search several dozen sites to find them. QuickRank accomplishes this quite well."
Deep Web Technologies continues to maintain and enhance the deep web search components of the Science.gov portal.
About Deep Web Technologies:
Deep Web Technologies (DWT) is a small business based in Los Alamos, NM. DWT founder Abe Lederman developed an earlier version of Explorit in 1994 while working as a consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory. The success of the Explorit concept and resulting technology, along with the explosive growth of the World Wide Web, led to the formation of several business ventures, including DWT in 2002. DWT's mission is to help companies capitalize on the advantages of information sharing in an intranet/Internet environment and to harness the power of today's increased information access. DWT powers major sites such as the DoD community's STINET Multisearch Application (http://multisearch.dtic.mil), the Department of Energy's Energy Science and Technology Virtual Library ), and the Viral Hepatitis Deep Search Portal ).
Company Contact Information:
Deep Web Technologies: (505) 672-0007
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On the Web: http://www.deepwebtech.com
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