Watch this space for the future of information retrieval

Nav4 Search Engine Patch Kit – Think Tank 23 Context Navigation Solutions

Give your search engine some words, and you’ll get back some documents that match one or more of those words. Give Nav4 a document, and you’ll get back the documents that match one or more of that document’s concepts. Is this search result close? Let Nav4 find others like it; let Nav4 get you closer.

Nav4 SEPK picks up where your search engine leaves off. Like what you’re reading? Want to know more? Nav4 gives you related documents, in context. You’re one click away from a Nav4 results page the additional documents you need. Or, why click? Embed Nav4 related documents right in your Web pages, with Nav4 Web services available in HTML and XML formats.

Look for this service to be impletmented here on this weblog soon: with each article you read, you’ll see links to other articles, here and on other weblogs, that are thematically similar. This is beyond the capabilities of keyword search, since it works like your mind does: it knows what a document is about, not how many times a given word appears.

I’m excited about it: this is the way information retrieval, aka search, should have always worked.