Serious research into science and technology has a new tool called illumin8 that harnesses semantic searches, which understand the meaning of queries. Unlike the free Google search engine, which merely matches the words in a query against Web pages containing those keywords, Elsevier's illumin8 uses a thesaurus with a half-million pre-defined technology terms to associate semantics—the meaning of the phrases—with queries.
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