According to the company, the addition of more complex Boolean operations is currently under development. Elbaz indicated that the company is talking with some of the major portals and has already arranged some licensing deals that will be announced soon. It has to do a lot with our next big project, and we don t want to give anything away until we have to. The technology is currently in beta testing and, according to a company representative, the developers are working aggressively on making it available to the general public as soon as possible. The real target market, however, will probably prove to be portals and search engines that would license the technology as a front end for improving search queries.
Users then select the appropriate meaning or enter a new meaning.
For terms not in the database, users are prompted to provide a meaning, which SimpliFind learns and uses for all subsequent visits. The advanced search provides two additional text fields for multiple query terms, designed to encourage users to enter more information. Search results are then based on meanings of words and the context. Various enhancements and innovations related to the management team s expertise in linguistics, cognitive science, and computer sciences have been created to develop a highly relevant and scalable system to search for information. According to the company, it s these added capabilities that make SimpliFind so innovative and something that will only get better with time and more usage.