LaserSearch

Intelligent Search Tool

LaserSearch is a new type of search tool that is used to retrieve relevant and preferred documents from a collection of documents, for example, the Internet or a Corporate Database.

The LaserSearch method is able to order the documents in any collection so that you only see the documents that are relevant to your search . There is no longer a need to look through pages of information to find the documents that you need.

The LaserSearch Method requires a small amount of user interaction. The user looks at a few representative documents from the collection and then specifies those that are relevant and preferred versus the ones that are not. This information is used by the LaserSearch method to "process" the documents in the collection and then "bubble up" to the top of list, all of the documents that are relevant and preferred.

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BING Version

In this implementation of LaserSearch, documents are downloaded from BING using Microsoft's API. The original result set is displayed in the same order that you would find if you did a simple search on BING. But, after the user marks a few documents as relevant and irrelevant, LaserSearch is able to reorder the documents. The user's relevant documents move to the top of the list.

Try LaserSearch on BING
(for this demo, we are downloading and reranking one hundred documents)

IRS Instructions/Publications Database

A traditional search for Instructions or Publications at IRS.gov could take some time if you did not know exactly which document that you need. We have downloaded over eight hundred documents from the IRS site and are using LaserSearch to look through the documents using your keywords or phrases. To increase the speed and flexibility of the information retrieval processes necessary to do a full text search, we are using the open-source search server SOLR/ Lucene.

Try LaserSearch to Search IRS Instructions and Publications

Local News Stories using Microsoft SQL

A significant amount of information is now being stored on Microsoft SQL Servers. To Query this data, most developers use simple SQL queries with the results Ordered by some predefined criteria such as Date or Title.

Using LaserSearch to retreive and resort the data, the user is able to get to the documents they need with little time and effort. In this example, LaserSearch is used to search through a collection of over 8000 news stories that were collected by a small town USA television station.

Try LaserSearch to Search News Stories