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The enterprise search market is getting more sophisticated and companies are coming up with new ways to find useful but buried information. IBM's new search software targets information buried in email applications. Created by Shiv Vaiyanathan, manager of unstructured information mining at IBM Research, the new software is called IOPES (IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search). It is a 'smart' search because it uses algorithms that can make sense of incomplete queries. IOPES retrieves information such as phone numbers, images, meetings, documents, and people, as well as allowing users to create and share personalized searches. The backbone of IOPES is the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA), IBM's open-source software framework which was created to help build new analysis technologies. Other companies that are expanding their search engine capabilities include Google (adding blogs to Universal Search results), Vivisimo (adding social tagging, bookmarking, and networking to enterprise search platform), Yahoo! (revamped Yahoo! Search engine), Microsoft (launched Live Search), and Ask.com (new Ask3D platform includes content from blogs as well as video, news, photo, and shopping sites). IOPES was unveiled in December.
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