Xerox launches intelligent search engine
Type “what Steve Jobs said yesterday” into the so-called “FactSpotter” tool and the software will hunt through documents and return a handful of relevant answers, instead of churning out countless articles containing the Apple chief executive’s name.
But the FactSpotter software will not be available to the public over the internet or otherwise ?it will only be available to customers of document management company Xerox, which developed the text-miner tool.
Jean-Ren?Gain, director and general manager of marketing, strategy and alliances at Xerox, said Xerox will not sell FactSpotter as a stand-alone application but as an embedded app to its customers.
Gain said: “We are not taking on Google with this. It is an aside option to consider but we need this technology to differentiate ourselves [from our competitors].”
Mario Jarmasz, a technology showroom engineer at Xerox, said: “Xerox is not creating a Google killer. This is completely different from searching on Google because we can drill down to certain levels of detail.”
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