February 08, 2010

Build Search Agents with Connotate

Connotate lets users create applications to search deeply and analyze the findings. It's all in creating the agents to go to the right places, and mash up the information.

The Connotate website describes how this can be use for business intelligence, competitive intelligence, and industry applications. It will work with any source, internal or external. The data page notes that:

  • Monitoring and extracting text, data and pictures… in HTML or PDF formats… from sources in any language that can be shared throughout the organization.
  • , precise monitoring and extraction of time-sensitive, essential information (e.g. earnings, business intelligence, SEC filings, international developments, etc.).
  • User-created library of best content sources and practices.
  • Automating access to the 600 billion "deep Web" pages not indexed by Google or Yahoo.

Barbara Brynko described the product in Information Today - Connotate: Letting Agents do the Work - (Nov 2009) available through AllBusiness - requires free registration.

There is a two-week free trial for monitoring and extracting data from any web source.

Posted by Gwen at February 8, 2010 06:43 PM