1. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. Federated Search Presentation Explorit Research Accelerator Focus Deep. Get Results.

2. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. About Deep Web Technologies... Founded by Abe Lederman, a co- founder of Verity, 2002 Pioneered federated search technology Over $3M in R&D Production applications since 1999 Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico 22 person company with strong executive team

3. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. Customers Include... Boeing Defense Technical Information Center DOE Office of Scientific & Technical Information George Mason University Intel Corporate Library Missouri Digital Heritage National Agricultural Library Raytheon Science.gov Alliance Scitopia.org Stanford University UCSF Medical School WorldWideScience Alliance

4. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. What is “Federated Search”? “Federated Search is an application or service that allows users to submit a real-time search in parallel to multiple, distributed information sources and retrieve aggregated, ranked and de-duplicated results.”

5. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. Major Advantages of an Explorit Solution Rich, easy-to-use, AJAX-based Web 2.0 Interface Incremental display of search results Sophisticated/powerful connector building capability Retrieval of 50-100 or more results per source Relevance ranking (Tunable)

6. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. Major Advantages of an Explorit Solution (cont.) Alerts delivered via email or RSS Search Builder which enables custom search pages to be created Selection of search results and export through Direct Connect Administrative Console including rich set of graphics-based metrics

7. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. Explorit Search Features Basic Search Advanced Search Grouping of Collections into 2-level Menu Boolean Searching (AND, OR, NOT) Fielded Searching Author Normalization Date Range Searches Stemming / Wildcard truncation

8. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. Explorit Result Page Features Incremental Results Merged/Ranked Results Sorting Results Refine Results Limiting Results to a Single Source Smart Clustering Selection of Results Email / Printing of Results Export of Results (see Direct Connect)

9. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. Sites Running Explorit Scitopia.org WorldWideScience.org Science.gov Nutrition.gov Biznar Mednar ScienceResearch.com

10. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 10 Thank you! Questions? Contact us: Corinne Lebrun corinne@deepwebtech.com Abe Lederman abe@deepwebtech.com