The race to develop multimedia search engines

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The race to develop multimedia search engines

09-12-2007, 08:48 AM,

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The race to develop multimedia search engines

Quote:The stakes are rising in the race to develop multimedia search engines capable of searching, indexing and cataloging the growing amount of music, images and video available on the Web.

The challenges are substantially more involved and complicated than traditional text searching. A lack of resources devoted to tagging and marking up content for use as metadata, the lack of adequate metadata databases and the difficulties associated with indexing dynamic content are cited as hurdles that need to be overcome.

Wider use of metadata should go a long way, but leading edge multimedia search technology developers are working on a range of other means and methods to improve users' ability to seek out, find and make use of content...

full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/8qG1BC7L...arch.xhtml

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