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Building a better search query: thorugh Content Mining.

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Federated Search Alone Is Not the Complete Answer

With the amount of online information rapidly expanding and residing in increasingly disparate sources, organizations need a way to simplify how their users discover and access the information they need. Federated search is designed to help organizations meet this challenge, enabling users to simultaneously search multiple sources and quickly obtain relevant results using a single search query.

Yet federated search on its own can often lead to information overload, making it time-consuming and difficult for users to locate the most relevant information. We will examine how SwetsWise Searcher combines content mining capability with federated search to offer the most effective solution. More than just a categorization tool, content mining does not force categories on users, but instead "mines" content and guides users to build the most effective search query for the most relevant results.

Why the Content Mining Approach Was Developed

Developers of the content mining feature recognized several issues with standard federated search options. As they analyzed the offerings, they realized that introducing the ability to simultaneously search multiple sources can quickly lead to information overload. Users are confronted with sorting through lists of hundreds, even thousands of search results, with relevant information buried among randomly scattered...