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Digimind Finder wins the European Information and Communication Technologies Prize

			
The 03/16/2007

			


About the European ICT Prize


	


The European Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Prize is the most distinguished award for innovative products and services that represent the best of European innovation in ICT. Organized by Euro-CASE and sponsored by the European Commission, it unites juries of high-ranking European experts from technical fields such as major industry or research. They assess the level of innovation in the technologies as well as how they are transformed into products and services with high business potential. The winners and Grand Prize winners are selected by the European Commission and all results unveiled at the awards ceremony at the CeBIT in Hanover on March 16.


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Digimind Finder, the new meta-search engine from DIGIMIND (www.digimind.com), wins the European Information and Communication Technologies Prize, granted by a jury of top ranking European experts.


Out of the 450 applicant companies from 30 European countries, only those presenting products and services considered the most innovative and potentially successful on the market were retained in the race for this highly prized European technological award.


A mark of recognition for this French software publisher, which reinvests 45% of its turnover in R&D.



>See the video from ICT Prize 


1 out of 3 internet searches fail, resulting in a fall in company productivity

According to the American market research firm Outsell, Inc, the productivity of information research in companies dropped by 6.2% between 2001 and 2005, mostly due to a 32% failure rate for searches on Internet. This reduction in productivity translated into a financial loss of 10% of wage cost, as estimated by the Butler Group in 2006.

Current search solutions do not exploit the wealth of the invisible web

The main cause: tens of thousands of databases, sectoral portals and specialized search engines are not accessible via broad-based search engines as they are technically unable to index them. This means users miss out on a vast quantity of top quality information, thought to be 500 times the size of the “visible” web*. Meta-search engines for the general public, aggregators and enterprise search engines offer just a limited selection of the best known invisible web sources, as connecting to them is technically complex and expensive.

Consequently, the search for professional information on the Internet often becomes a veritable obstacle course, as the user is forced to repeat the same queries on many different profession-specific sources invaluable to his field of activity, or simply to make do with current solutions and bear the productivity losses uncovered by Outsell, Inc

Digimind Finder makes custom internet search accessible thanks to major innovations in automated data extraction


To enable users to query a whole range of specific search engines, sectoral portals and databases with just one mouse-click, we had to find a simple way of connecting to sources that did not require any technical knowledge of Digimind Finder.


Our engineers at the Digimind Research Center in Grenoble successfully met this challenge, by developing a unique automatic algorithm which can learn search engines’ extraction rules, based on mathematical topological and probability theories from the field of artificial intelligence.


Combined with advanced filtering algorithms and a fluid and user-friendly interface, Digimind Finder enables companies to achieve extremely impressive productivity gains and helps “Knowledge Workers” deliver a swifter, more accurate and more exhaustive response to requests for professional information.


*To find out more about the Invisible Web, read our White Paper 

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