CABOODLE NETWORKS LAUNCHES WORLD'S FIRST
OPEN SOURCE SEMANTIC WEB-BASED SEARCH ENGINE
Caboodle Networks open source software is designed to help users of mobile and web portals find digital content and services more easily and with better relevance than traditional text-retrieval search engines.
MARCH 1, 2006 - BURLINGAME, Calif., Caboodle Networks Inc. today announces the availability of the world's first open source search engine based upon semantic web standards. This new search engine, Kit, (available for free at http://semantical.org) is ideal for finding digital content and services otherwise poorly suited to discovery by traditional text-retrieval search engines. Kit can intelligently recommend related digital content such as games, music, images, and video, thereby truly leveraging the value hidden in the "long tail" of published content. Now companies and individuals hosting Internet gaming and music sites, as well as companies such as wireless carriers with mobile portals, have access to the very best standards-based solution for locating and recommending their downloadable content and services.
Anyone operating a portal, whether mobile or web-based, must find ways of maximizing the revenue returned from all of its content and properties. The launch of the world's first open source Semantic Web-based search engine raises the bar by providing the ability to unlock the hidden value in a burgeoning content catalog.
Companies and individuals can also create and represent their own new categories of service using the open source standards-based ontologies available on http://semantical.org. Then they can create a standard tag representing this new service so that anybody, anywhere in the world, employing this open source search engine can find it.
Companies and individuals around the world now have an open source approach to having their published content standardized, discovered, and recommended. Now, two machines anywhere on the Internet can ad hoc agree on a common lingua franca for a standard representation of digital goods and services, removing a key friction point in the digital commerce experience.
About the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF), which integrates a variety of applications using XML for syntax and URIs for naming.
About Caboodle Networks, Inc.
Founded by highly experienced mobile data pioneers, Caboodle Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of open source search software for the mobile communications industry, including wireless carriers, MVNOs, and media, entertainment, and enterprise portals. Our services reduce the friction in digital commerce by maximizing the sales opportunity to the end customer.
Caboodle provides the world's first open source multi-media, multi-service search platform for semantic structured data. Caboodle makes its semantic web search technology available for free under GPL license at semantical.org. Open source solutions enable more innovative, higher quality search solutions quicker, and at lower cost. Founded in 2003 and based in Silicon Valley, Caboodle Networks, Inc. is a privately-owned California Corporation.