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Concept Engine^TM

Elementary, my dear Watson. Sherlock Holmes.


Web Research		The Concept Engine^TM is a new paradigm for searching the web. A research session on the web using a traditional search engine goes something like this: Compose and submit a complex 'boolean' query, whose syntax has been chosen to help the computer, not you. Immediately receive 9000 documents, mostly irrelevant, containing 4 useful documents. Scan the documents, exploring useful and useless links which are indistinguishable from each other on the results list. Repeat endlessly!
		The end-user spends an entire afternoon trying to find helpful documents. Even though each query is quickly 'satisfied' by the search engine, because the results quality is so low, it takes many hours to track down the information you seek.
New paradigm		A session with Concept Engine works very differently: Compose and submit a precise query using natural language, describing what you are after using your terminology and language - not 'computer speak'. Use the afternoon doing other productive work. Return several hours later to receive a detailed report. The report contains: Accurately relevance ranked documents. (There are no irrelevant documents listed at all.) Each document is accompanied by its keypoints and a summary, which is focused on your needs. Related images. These are all associated with your query. So if your query were "Bill Clinton" the images would all be of, or about, Bill Clinton. Associated terms. These are other terms you might have considered including in your query, had you but known what the results would be! A subject index. This is an index of subjects related to your research. Each entry is accompanied with links to example documents, or thumb-nails of related images, or both. A table of email contacts. Addresses of people or organisations interested in your research. Although perhaps the same amount of time has passed, there is a big difference:- you haven't had to do the digging - the computer has!
Example		Here is some completed research: What is the distance between two points on a great circle? Can GM food genes cross into humans? What are the signs of climate change in Britain? Real-time radar simulation software Spacecraft autonomy What are the causes of global warming? Resistance to penicillin and antibiotics. How difficult is it to climb Mount Everest? What are the causes of cancer? Does smoking cause cancer? Low frequency electromagnetic radiation (fields).
Query 'Syntax'		There is no complex query syntax to learn, but naturally there are good queries and bad queries. Please see the query page for more details.
Toolkit		Concept Engine is available for integration by third parties. The API is available on-line to registered developers.