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Project Description

Keywords Engines

-Keywords extension engine

-Keyword proximity engine

Jan 06, 2009, by Donato Diorio, originally posted on www.idonato.com

Experiment to help develop taxonomies of keywords.

First engine is http://keywords.broadlook.com. The focus of this engine is the keywords and metatags within websites and build a list of (1) keyword extensions of your input. Example: if you type in the word “research”, the engine will return the top results in 1000′s of phrases that start with “research”, like “research and development”, “research papers” and “research triangle”. In addition, engine 1 returns a list of keywords in closest proximity to your input term.

Second engine is http://keywords2.broadlook.com. This engine does the same as engine #1, except it works with the BODY of html pages vs. keywords and meta tags.

Building a ultra-fast proximity engine with entity recognition could yield some interesting results.

Examples:

-Who are the top 10 people on the web that are mentioned in closest proximity to Bill Gates or Barack Obama? How does that compare to the month previous?

-What are the top 10 companies mentioned near Broadlook or Salesforce.com?

-Who are the top 10 people mentioned in conjuntion with an event, company or date?

The combinations are endless. What applications can be developed from this type of information? I can think of many in the research and analytics space. The 2 main components are the entity recognition and proximity indexing. For questions about the engines email to donato dot diorio at gmail com.
Applicant Tracking Vendor List Experiment in using Broadlook Market Mapper and Profiler to create a list of applicant tracking vendors.  (Full article at www.idonato.com)
IT services companies (Southeast Wisconsin) Broadlook developed this list in 2007 for the Milwaukee Journal that was writing an article “Hunting for local IT“. It would be interesting to redo it for 2009 and see how much has changed on the technology company horizon. What is interesting is that the process we learned doing this project allowed Broadlook to enhance some of it’s core products to service the venture capital sector.