Smartlogic™
A taxonomy-based solution that improves findability
Semaphore software takes a taxonomy-based approach to modeling, classifying, and revealing content. A Semaphore-enhanced site is based on a taxonomy that reflects the way that your business, and your clients, see the world.
This means that the Semaphore search-navigation experience is more human-friendly, and more accurate – Smartlogic™ calls this concept ‘findability’.
Smartlogic™ thinks of Semaphore as turning a search engine into a find engine – it helps users to put search results into context.
Better search-navigation experience – whatever the search engine
Semaphore enables search-navigation techniques like faceted navigation, disambiguation, and broader-than and narrower-than searches. Semaphore will also give you old fashioned I-didn’t-know-that moments when you get interesting results that you weren’t expecting. In other words, it gives you access to related information relevant to the subject you are searching.
You can combine Semaphore with your chosen search engine – we get great results with Google Search Appliance and Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2007.
What does Semaphore add to the Google Search Appliance?
- Adds taxonomy, ontology and classification support to the Google Search Appliance
- Allows people to break down, explore and learn about topics
- Improves findability, precision and completeness
Capability
- Build or import, manage and deploy taxonomies and ontologies across multiple websites and applications
- Organise content according to your taxonomies through accurate and controllable automated classification
- Provide greater control of the search and navigation experience
- Allow users to analyse, organise and refine results, explore related content and topics, locate useful resources, break down topics and much more
- Provide faceted search capability over your unstructured content
Implementation
- Intuitive and familiar user interface
- Quick and easy to deploy
- Technology widely deployed at small and large organisations
- Tightly integrated with Google’s crawling, integration and security services
- Simple and competitive pricing model based on your GSA implementation
Taxonomies compliment enterprise search systems to help people find information and expertise more easily, accelerate learning, locate and use information resources and create and share content.
A taxonomy organises knowledge and information. It defines a domain using a hierarchy, making it clear for a user what they know, what they don’t know and what they need to know. Whether researching a company, finding the right product or identifying who to talk with the taxonomy is a powerful tool by which people quickly find answers or stimulate problem solving.
