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Today USA Today brightened my day with the news that new semantic search from Xerox will make finding information easier and faster. So that’s super, even though it will launch next year. So what kind of improvements can I expect?

For example, common searches using keywords “Lincoln” and “vice president” likely won’t reveal President Abraham Lincoln’s first vice president. A semantic search should yield the answer: Hannibal Hamlin.

Mmm, that sounds good, so let’s see how sucky my experience is nowadays:

Say what? Not only the first three links point to the documents that contain the Vice President’s name, the second description actually provides the name right on the search engine results page. What was the problem FactSpotter was solving again? I am sure their technology is all cool, but perhaps someone could come up with a better illustration.