Could IBM Shake up the Search Engine World?

overshoot writes "IBM has just tossed a bucket of chum into the whole search showdown, which Microsoft thought was between them and Google. Apparently, IBM Research has developed a 'key facts' search technology (as distinct from 'key words') over the last several years. Now they're going public with it -- by putting it on SourceForge under an OSS license!" (According to the article, it's expected to show up on SourceForge by the end of this year, not immediately.)

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Re:Yay.

[gstoddart]

Yay, now EVERYONE can make their own Search Engine and say how they are SO much better then everyone elses!

Well, let's just hope it becomes one big, honkin' FOSS project.

Search technology is huge. Having it available which apparently can index conceptual links as opposed to literal links is astounding.

I say smart move on IBM's side. Get all the publicity of opening up really cool tech to the open-source community, then proceed to make a gazillion dollars in professional services gigs, and get the added benefit of everyone making your tech better because it's useful.

Provided this isn't steamingly fresh technology (unlikely from IBM realy) they should see some interest in this.

I for one, can imagine a nice bunch of associative content, and am wondering how much resources this might require to run on a machine and I'm going to go RTFA. =)