Back Index Forward
Weekly News Digest
February 11, 2010 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today. For other up-to-the-minute news, check out ITI’s Twitter account: @ITINewsBreaks. CLICK HERE to view more Weekly News Digest items.

Swets Partners With Deep Web Technologies for Federated Search

Swets (www.swets.com) announced that it has entered into a partnership with Deep Web Technologies (DWT; www.deepwebtech.com) to further enhance the performance of SwetsWise Searcher, Swets' hosted federated search module. Swets will be reselling DWT's Explorit-based solutions as SwetsWise Searcher.

SwetsWise Searcher is a hosted federated search service driven by Deep Web Technology that aims to offer impressive performance levels at an affordable price. Designed to help librarians and their users meet the challenge of searching and finding relevant results from the ever-increasing catalog of available online content, SwetsWise Searcher simplifies access to an organization's diverse and valuable resources, along with the open web content users are accustomed to searching.

With SwetsWise Searcher, users receive superior search results through a powerful ranking engine, providing incremental results for fast response times, scalability, and flexibility. SwetsWise Searcher performs a rapid parallel search of all available sources or selected sources in real time, ensuring fresh information and that documents are retrieved the minute they are published into a collection's database. A simple search box to cover all sources can be integrated into any webpage, blog, or intranet homepage.

Source: Swets and Deep Web Technologies