What audiences do you see for this technology?
Also, how would you expand the audience for this technology?
Possible options:
* Auto-crawl content and automagically organize it, without involving the content owner. (The Google approach).
* Build a turn-key solution that people can upload their content and get the index returned to them. (An API approach.)
* Talking to businesses directly, and make one on one deals. (An enterprise/B2B approach.)
1. advantage of relevancy within specific domains. The page-rank was a huge value-add to relevancy over other search. But internet wide is now too ambitious. HN is a great corpus because the content is already vetted by a community. The work of integrating other specialized communities content can give density and relevancy.
2. ease-of-use in integration. The less configuration to use this API, the better. Autotagging, done well, is very useful. I have a lot of ideas around this if you'd like to chat some time.
3. ease-of-use interface . Combining browsable, faceted search with NLP is, I think, the sweet spot between getting lots of relevant results, but allowing for discovery.
again, one person may be satisfied with a certain achieved result, but that may work not quite well for other person. just for instance, clusterization or topic extraction. you should have some knowledge about what you want to get, what are the possible outcomes of investigation, and dig into data to get what you need. generic approach will give broad resultset that may require some additional effort for real-world usage.