I'm fascinated by this SEM Logic software. It sounds like something we've been trying to get working for months:
Research from the fields of Information Theory and Machine Learning (AI) is being applied to the way SEs index their databases. The technology used is based on the concept of Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)...
LSI considers documents that have many words in common to be semantically close, and ones with few words in common to be semantically distant....
The determination of how relevant your content is to a search phrase is no longer just about how well you use your key phrases: keyword effectiveness index (KEI), keyword density, and keyword positioning on your pages. It involves a complex mathematical relationship between words on yours and other pages that a process with artificial intelligence determines are important enough to reveal what those pages “mean.”
This sounds to me like SEM Logic is technology that uses some sort of map of the term vector space by having access to a search engine sized index. If so, I'm totally impressed. I think I'm gonna ask for a demo, because this sounds too cool to be true. I'll let you know what they say...
Thanks for your interest! We're extremely excited about SEMLogic. I've known for a while the importance of LSI, but I'm blown away by what we've built. :-)
Drop me an email and I'll be happy to connect you with Mike. I could explain, but that would be like having the waiter explain what's in the cake...better to just have you talk to the Chef! ;-)
I actually had lunch with Mike Marshall 3 years ago discussing a possible partnership. Looks like I blew it!
His site was thememaster.com. It was to be for themes what Wordtracker is for keywords.
We met at an Indian restaurant in Staunton Va. I was ranting about the Semantic Web and how we could work together. I flaked out on emailing him...
Looks like Mike and Andy are going to kick big butt.