Talk:Concept Searching Limited

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The new article about conceptsearching lists some basic informaiton about Concept Searching Limited and its products.

BUT, the main reason that this article deserves a place on Wikipedia is because this company was the first to introduce compound term processing (aka phrase based indexing) to Enterprise Search. The published article (Lateral Thinking in Information retrieval, August 2003) is important because of the current interest generally about multi-word processing in Enterprise Search.

There are a number of patents (right acquired by Google) that attempt to patent these ideas - but conceptsearching pre-dates the patent applications. See for example US Patent Application number: 20060018551.

So, this article has real importance to Google (who would like to claim invention of these ideas) and also to Microsoft, Oracle, Autonomy, etc who will at some point want to add compound term processing to their engines - and need to know that conceptsearching potentially invalidates certain aspects of the Google patents.

The timing of the published article (which has a British Library catalog entry) is most significant because it pre-dates the relevant patent applications (see above).

213.208.123.16 (talk) 14:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)