Likely to become a powerful data mining tool, SMEs are going to love getting their hands on this intelligent Web search engine so they can begin doing some serious comparison shopping.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) developed a new, intelligent Web search engine that delivers closely targeted results when searching for cheaper suppliers, potential clients and new markets.

“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. [Read the rest]

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