March 8th, 2011 
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Semantifi developed a meaning based search platform to search both structured and unstructured content and filed multiple patents. Semantifi addressed key challenges to searching structured data across the ‘search stack’:
Semantic search engine driven by knowledge base for relevant answers
Automatic data summaries & visualizations to interpret database results
Index multi-terabyte databases for quick results
Crawl any type of database to compose complex queries
Semantifi’s approach is to search the structured web by
web hosting its search platform for any person to use for free and
building an App Store like marketplace for a community of publishers to build data search apps for all users to search.
The concept of a “Marketplace for Apps” is clearly proven with App Store, AppExchange, Facebook Apps and so on.
Semantifi built SEMANTIFI.COM destined to be such a marketplace for Search Apps. At SEMANTIFI.COM, Semantifi’s search platform will be centrally hosted for any person to use for totally free. Publishers can build their own apps to search any datasets or whole vertical search portals. Publishers can be individual users, companies, and content owners. Apps can be of personal interest, or of high public appeal, or have revenue prospective. Apps can be shared publicly, or within social networks, or only to paid subscribers. When users search, they get search outcomes from matching Apps. Like at App Store, commercial Apps will generate revenues.
To illustrate, think about an app to study equities. A publisher sources finance data feeds, configures to the search platform and publishes it. Thompson Reuters or Zacks can be such a publisher. A travel portal like Expedia can configure its reservations databases so travelers can see best itineraries, a retailer like J&R could configure its product catalog so shoppers can see items that match its catalog and so on.
A couple of much more ideas of Apps can be an eBay Sellers App to study bid data, a US schools App to research schools performance, a FDIC App to investigate soundness of Banks, an App to search Craigslist Auto/Jobs/Real Estate, etc.
http://www.semantifi.com
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