Google falls short for research — instead, meet DeepDyve
Despite an endless succession of startups claiming to “beat” Google and Yahoo, there’s not, strictly speaking, any need to do so. For the average consumer search has been solved, with most searches ending satisfactorily. DeepDyve wants to tap another group of users: Students, researchers and other “information workers” who need to quickly find expert-level data.
What makes DeepDyve, formerly called Infovell, unusual is that it uses a technology fairly similar to Google’s statistics-based search. While semantics… Continue Reading