Movement to make search more open and transparent continues to gain momentum as Intellisophic agrees to open-source its text categorization software

San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) August 3, 2007 -– Wikia, Inc. the leading provider of community resources for building and organizing free content on every topic, today announced that Intellisophic, Inc., the leading publisher of subject-specific taxonomy, thesaurus and vocabulary products for the search, categorization and text-mining industry, has agreed to make its high-performance categorization software available via open source in conjunction with the Search Wikia project.

Categorization is the process of organizing information based on a common set of characteristics or concepts, which in terms of Internet searching helps to increase accuracy. By understanding the vocabularies, terminology and relationships of concepts in different categories of content such as finance, gaming, or news, the quality of search results for the related keywords can be significantly increased.