SMEs Get Better Targeted Web Searches

IST Results - SMEs get better targeted Web searches: "'The problem with existing search engines, especially for SMEs seeking an exact response to a query, is that they find many hundreds of sites that may be of little use,' says Sonia Bergamaschi of the University of Modena in Italy and coordinator of the IST project SEWASIE that developed the engine. 'Our idea was to develop a set of ontologies related to specific industry sectors, in order to limit the search to sites that are really useful.'"