Posts Tagged ‘Google’

The Knowledge Discovery Challenge

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Context Organizer summaries instantly show you the "big picture" enabling you to quickly and visually understand large amounts of information, organized by relevancy so you instantly get clear view of the essential content. 

One of the challenges is that we always have far too much to read and research, and not enough time to do it. Whether we are studying, writing blogs, doing product research, competitive analysis, or searching the web, we always run out of time to tackle our enormous reading stacks. 

Given the ever-increasing amounts of information we face today, it is necessary to find more effective methods for mining and discovering hidden knowledge. 
  
The major obstacle we face is that too much content hides the relevant message; there is also a lack of context. Often, the content lacks clear structure, which makes reading and understanding more difficult.
 
Work Smarter with Context Organizer
Context Organizer summaries instantly show you the "big picture" enabling you to quickly and visually understand large amounts of information, organized by relevancy so you instantly get clear view of the essential content. 
 
With Context Organizerʼs summaries you are making informed decisions in less time. And that is only the beginning.  The summaries are also blueprints for action, enabling you to speed read, rapidly take notes, summarize Google search results, instantly generate MindManager mind maps, and filter information according to your interests.
 
Focus on results not the tool - Think Creatively
With its intuitive, highly interactive interface, Context Organizer summaries are created in a snap. The creation of summaries promotes quick understanding by focusing on the essential content only, while superfluous information is filtered out.
 
Context Organizer summaries increase your ability to text mine documents’ key ideas and facts; you achieve it quickly and effortlessly, leaving you more time for strategic and creative thinking.
 
Save Time
Context Organizer integrates with and complements existing desktop tools so you can immediately realize productivity gains without interruption or ramp up time. Using Context Organizer enhances the quality and speed of strategic thinking, accelerates research, learning, project and process planning, and increases personal and team productivity.
 
For ease of use, Context Organizer is seamlessly integrated with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Windows Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Mindjet MindManager.
 
In essence, whenever you read web pages, emails, and documents, you can simply just click a button to instantly spotlight the key ideas and facts; no more information overload.
  
You can download and try out Context Organizer for free.

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The Context Organizer Method

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Context Organizer’s power to visualize critical information is akin to creating on the spot maps to help you effortlessly navigate through web pages.  In an instant, large amounts of information are simplified and reduced to the most essential storyline, which is easy to understand and learn.
 
Context Organizer summaries simplify complex text into an organized, easy-to-understand visual format.
 
At a glance,you see the essential keywords and summaries. You do not need to read the full text of  web pages, emails and documents in order to know what they contain.
 
Context Organizer summaries facilitate the rapid discovery of ideas, simplify complex content, inspire creativity, and save enormous amounts of time and effort. With a simple visual presentation, users can immediately focus on the critical information and make decisions.
 
Context Organizer’s powerful filters enable easy exposure of desired information. The Short Summary instantly spotlights the most important conclusions saving you time and effort by discovering critical findings and eliminating information overload.
 
Convenient note taking allows you to effortlessly text mine to rapidly create your own documents and notes. It is a handy tool for learning and studying.
 
Summarized Google search results save you time in reviewing and discovering the essential fragments hidden in web pages.  With Context Organizer’s review and summarization of Google search results is very fast and effortless.
 
Speed reading with Context Organizer is as simple as clicking on a button. Summaries and keywords ranked by relevance are instantly discovered and presented to you for review and note taking.
 
MindManager mind mapping is completely automated with Context Organizer. With the simple click of a button, you can instantly create a MindManager map.
 
In conclusion, Context Organizer’s power to visualize critical information is akin to creating on the spot maps to help you effortlessly navigate through web pages.  In an instant, large amounts of information are simplified and reduced to the most essential storyline, which is easy to understand and learn.
 
You can download and try out Context Organizer for free.
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How can Context Organizer help you with Google searches?

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

 

Answer: by simply clicking a button, Google search results are summarized by Context Organizer and displayed in tabs for easy review. 
See a demo of Context Organizer’s ability to summarize Google search results.
See a sample screen of Summarized Google Search Results.
Almost everyone searches Google to find information, and Google quickly rewards them by displaying a huge number of links for review. Certainly Google finds the information we are seeking, but the challenge is to find only the relevant pages  in the multitude of links quickly.

 

The challenge of web searches
Web navigation is driven by text. Keywords act as general directions for our searching needs. What we do not know before the search results are revealed is in what context these keywords are used in the documents found by Google.
In short, we need context to help us evaluate usefulness of search results.
Google, as any other search engine, is unaware of context. Google provides pages with keywords in the text regardless of the context of their uses.
By nature, web queries are very short and it is doubtful that a one, or two, or three-word query can clearly express users’ informational objectives.
This is where Context Organizer comes in to your help with Google searches.
With Context Organizer, your Google search results are automatically summarized! You always see the most relevant keywords in context! 
At a glance, you are able to recognize how useful any of your Google search results are. And to top this, you do not have to click on any of the Google links. With a simple click of the Search+ button, Context Organizer will keep summarizing Google search results and display the summaries in separate tabs for ease of review.
You do not have to click on the links, wait for the connection, and then read the page – this is all instantly accomplished by Context Organizer.
Say you summarize 20 top Google search results, you can theneasily review the key sentences, assess the relevancy of the keywords, and quickly form a comprehensive idea ofwhich of the search results are useful to you, in context with your objectives. Practically, compactly, and quickly, Context Organizer presents you with the most relevant content and keywords from Google search results.
See a demo of Context Organizer’s ability to summarize Google search results.
See a sample screen of Summarized Google Search Results.
 PS
Context Organizer also summarizes Microsoft Live Search results. The user has a choice of either using Google or Live Search engines with Context Organizer.
 
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What is a Knol?

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

 According to Google:

A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.
The goal behind the Knol is to provide more complete and versatile treatment on the different aspects of the subject being covered. In short CONTEXT is provided to better understand the subject.  
So for example, if you were to read about a specific subject such as insomnia - you would be able to learn about variety of aspects about insomnia ranging from introduction, to sleep promotion, types of insomnia, diagnosis, medical and non-medical treatments, etc. – all in one article complemented with references.
From experience we know that content without context is difficult to value. Perhaps Knols are good attempts to improve understanding by conveniently providing well-researched context to content.
So far there’s no common format or standard on how to create Knols, how to comment on entries and how to collaborate on entries. However, Knol is an early beta project and it will certainly evolve so for time being we should keenly observe if it is going to help us in dealing with information quality.
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Google supports human oversight

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

 "Google De-Automates Addition of Gmail Contacts" By: Thomas Claburn

1-Sentence Summary*

In truth, Google’s decision to change the way Gmail gathers contacts isn’t so much a repudiation of automation as an acknowledgment that automation must be balanced by human oversight.

By far having Suggested Contacts where Gmail puts its auto-created addresses gives users back the control over their address book. By default, Suggested Contacts that you email regularly are automatically added to My Contacts. And if you do not like this automated step you can still choose to disable usage-based addition of contacts to My Contacts. Once you do this, no matter how many times you email an auto-added email address it won’t be moved to My Contacts.

As a result My Contacts contains the contacts you explicitly add to your address book through a manual entry, import or sync.
 
With these changes it will be much easier to clean up the address book and make it organized and functional. This is yet another step towards reducing information overload.

* 1-Sentence Summary is done using Context Organizer

 

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