[thecodingmonk]

We are working on Doqume (http://doqume.com)

It is an enterprise search engine which departs from traditional keyword-based search in order to provide an easier way to run complex, semantic queries on huge collections of text documents.

Why it's cool: image a pharmaceutical research task, where you need to find all documents mentioning drugs that interact with a specific class of diseases. In a normal setting, you would need to first research which drugs satisfy your condition and then either build a boolean OR query or probably query them one by one. Doqume saves you this hassle, because it allows to express conditions like "drugs that interact with infectious disease" with a simple user interface. As a result, you can get both the items that match your conditions (i.e., in the example, all the drugs that we know interact with the class of diseases that you specified) and the documents that match the query (e.g., recent research articles mentioning those items). The approach is not specific to pharma and you can easily build queries that span across several domains (e.g., "cities with more than 1M inhabitants", "USA companies with more than X employees", "singers who are born in Chicago", etc...).

If you want to give it a try you can see a demo with this query building capability at http://doqume.com/search.html

[sgondala2]

I think even google does this right? If I say - 'Drugs that interact negatively with so and so', I get the result

[thecodingmonk]

Well, you can obtain these results with Google, but not really in most scenarios. For example, if you search "cities in Palestine with more than 1000 inhabitants" you will get lists of cities in Palestine and things like that, but not that New York Times article talking about Hebron (and not even a complete list of cities that match your criteria). This happens with lots of queries, where in the best case scenario Google will just return you a list of items (and not actual content talking about those items) and in the worst case scenario you will just get random results because it failed to parse the query.

[abledon]

What interests you in pharma culture ? Do you have family who rely on certain drugs to live ?

[thecodingmonk]

It's just one of the examples that came to my mind and that I thought was good. From what I know people working in pharma routinely have to search thousands of documents (e.g., research articles) looking for information.