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IBM Launches New Search Engine
Posted on September 18, 2003

IBM unveils new advanced search engine

IBM has launched an advanced new search mechanism capable of extracting minute data from among billions of Web pages.

In unveiling the WebFountain, the American technology giant also said it hoped the new platform could help bring in revenue for the firm.

IBM says the new search engine is able to intelligently use a massive data index that it builds up.

The system, run by a supercomputer that absorbs 25 million Web pages a day from the Internet, learns to recognise and put into context particular phrases and groups of words on command.

It begins to associate names and people in articles about a certain subject and gathers specific information that can be used as a business intelligence tool.

The platform could allow companies such as advertising agencies and content providers to search huge quantities of text and come up with the precise data they are looking for, saving critical time and manpower.

It would allow firms to track business trends or pick up scuttlebutt about their industry, themselves, their clients and their competitors by paying a fee for the use of the computer infrastructure each time they need data.

The company declined to say how much the system cost to develop.