i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

A Contextual Discovery Engine is a search which does a context sensitive searches so that even the information which is present in unstructured data can be retrieved. This not only searches for terms which are similar in the syntax and meaning but it will also search for everything that has been used in a similar context. It will then group the searches by the context.

To take an example from the website of such a search engine www.sophiasearch.com, Java can stand for

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The importance of the organization of information can be seen in the above article which talks about the launch of a new database for property and land mortgages in India. This database will contain the details of the property and the information on the borrower who is using it as the collateral for his or her loan.