International Software & Productivity Engineering Institute today launched the beta release of INTSPEI P-Navigator , a Windows desktop application based on innovative, patent-pending technology for searching and browsing the World Wide Web.

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With its ambitious Oslo software modeling platform, Microsoft seeks a new application development paradigm that raises the level of abstraction. But the effort has brought up questions about whether Oslo crowds the modeling landscape and whether Microsoft

Yahoo! is taking a bold step tonight: opening up its index and search engine to any outside developers who want to incorporate Yahoo! Search's content and functionality into search engines on their own sites. The company that sees just over 20% of the se

With an understanding of "over 10 million semantic connections," search firm Cognition is poised to power the next generation of search. Ars Technica sat down with Cognition's CEO to find out what the company hopes to do with such a large map of semant