Precision search

Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:35 p.m. -- The searchable document, Interactive Text Preparation starts with an Executive Overview, then invitations to five groups of marketing professionals. You are asked to consider the benefits to you of our cooperative business model. The five groups are:

1. The Open Source Software Community
2. IT Entrepreneurs
3. Owners of Web Sites and Intranets
4. Firms That Provide Backup in the Cloud
5. Suppliers of Word Processing Software

We offer you enhanced services to your customers, at little or no cost to you.

A few steps remain prior to the release of the MarpX Home Edition software which enables anyone to index and searchfiles, OR to build these capabilities into their software or services. We are polishing open source C++ software to include in the downloads for the MarpX Search Engine. The executive overview and marketing invitations are followed by an extensive manual for technical staff.

Contact us to share your reactions to the pre-release documentation.

MarpX precision search stands out from the conventional search engines. These ten points are drawn from the Executive Overview in the Interactive Text Preparation document.

1. Filtered search: Most search engines find combinations of terms in text. MarpX finds them and filters out the meaningless hits. There is no need to dig through garbage. Filtering respects the user's time.
2. Searching is under your control: MarpX gives you only what you ask for. You don't have to deal with hits a search designer thinks that you should get. Leaving you in control shows respect for your intelligence.
3. Meaning arises from words placed in relationship to one another. Words far apart don't mean much. Words close together convey meaning.
4. Headings add to meaning: Conventional engines lump headings in with ordinary text. Our engine respects the role of headings in locating meaningful content.
5. Small footprint: A MarpX WCT Index is often less than a third the size of the text. What's more, you are free to discard the text; it's not needed. The index is enough.
6. Transparency: Marpx relevance ranking is simple: The closer the desired terms are together, the higher a hit appears in the results.
7. Easy access to topics: An interactive table of contents provides an overview and quick access to any part of the text collection.
8. Internet-like browsing: Navigate to related material by clicking on an Internet-like link.
9. Internet-based enrichment: Enhanced learning through connecting to resources on the Internet -- web sites, graphics, video segments, even ongoing updates.
10. Cooperative business model: Marpex Inc. grants easy licensing for its search technology. That licensing is totally free for text collections of under 100,000 words. Large portions of the source code are Open Source. Any person or firm may index its text content, use the search engine, and/or build search technology into their software, subject only to the MIT License included in this document.

House of Representatives bill H.R. 4872, was published March 18, 2010. The publication included 6,219 pages of PDF files in legislative language:

1. Text of the Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute
2. Section-by-Section of the Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute
3. Text of the Senate Amendments to H.R. 3590 (Senate health bill)
4. Text of the bill as reported (reported by the Budget Committee)
5. H. Rept. 111-443: Budget Committee Report (Volume 1)
6. H. Rept. 111-443: Budget Committee Report (Volume 2)

These are all available to you by clicking the first graphic link below. The format of Volumes 1 and 2 still invite further clean-up, but everything is at least fully searchable.

To the right of the MarpX logo above, there is a link to a How-To Guide which provides both a quick overview and a comprehensive illustrated manual of the MarpX search engine with Words Close Together precision relevance ranking. (Example: Did you know you can search for parts of words? Depending on your politics, try insur* abus* or alternatively try pay* abort*.)