GeneralIBM Launches Free E-Mail Search Tool
IBM will help people find information in their email databases by identifying the most relevant information in a search query and extrapolating what the user is trying to find.
Recommend this story? Yes No Please Wait... IBM has launched an email search engine that does fuzzy searches. IBM said it used "advanced algorithms that can interpret incomplete queries and find information such as phone numbers, people, meetings, presentations, documents, images and more."The idea, according to Big Blue, is to help people find information in their Lotus Notes email databases by identifying the most relevant information in a search query and extrapolating what the user is trying to find. There is also a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook.It's free, is called IBM OmniFind Personal Email Search (IOPES), and emanates from the company's research labs. According to IBM, it can find information such as a person's phone number even if the email database does not have the words "phone" and "number" in the text. IOPES also allows users to create, save and share personalized searches for future use.The company reckoned that the tool improves on standard search tools because you don't get irrelevant search results as with a simple text or keyword search. Common search concepts, such as dates, times and phone numbers, are built into the software; additional search parameters, such as meeting requests or specific locations, can be defined and used on the fly without any programming expertise. Such user-defined concepts can be shared between individuals and used to build a more personalized search system, said IBM.IOPES... [ Read more on www.pcworld.com ]
GeneralIBM Offers Free E-Mail Search Tool
IBM OmniFind Personal Email Search is a semantic search engine for users of Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook.
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