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Autonomy searching for meaning

Cambridge based Autonomy is looking to add meaning to enterprise search.  Founder Mike Lynch discusses Meaning Based Computing in this interview with IWR sister title IT Week.

Now IWR has a great relationship with Autonomy and Lynch, but on first impressions, Meaning Based Computing sounded like a large software vendor looking to put a new spin on existing software, something some vendors make a real speciality of.  Is Autonomy doing the same? Reading further into the article, we can see what Autonomy is trying to achieve, computers at present don't understand the meaning of the content within documents and files.

Anything that improves the search experience is of interest to IWR; and Autonomy has a good track record at improving search, take a look at Blinkx, which uses its technology. We just hope Autonomy isn't going to become a vendor that invents acronyms in order to remain newsworthy? Over to you Mike?

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