TERAGRAM DIRECT ANSWERS ^TM

Teragram Direct Answers provides precise answers to information-seeking queries.

A standard search engine seeks to retrieve the most appropriate documents that match a keyword query and presents these documents to the end-user in ranked order.

However, most end users are not looking for documents, but instead want precise answers to their questions. With standard search engines, users must first sift through numerous documents to find exactly what they are really looking for. Teragram Direct Answers dramatically shortcuts this process.

Teragram Direct Answers grasps the essential question and extracts the most appropriate information from documents. The end user receives a direct answer to a query and can use the supporting documents to gather further information. Documents no longer must be read in their entirety in order to locate information. Teragram Direct Answers transforms a time-consuming process into an instantaneous method for fulfilling your information needs.

For example, for the query "president of china", Teragram Direct Answers instantly returns "Hu Jintao" and provides a link to the answer's source.

How Teragram Direct Answers Works

When an end-user types a query into a search bar, Direct Answers first determines whether the query is "information-seeking," (i.e., looking for a specific date, number, city name, time, etc.), or whether the query is seeking a link to a specific document or Website.

Using Teragram's advanced linguistics technologies, Direct Answers processes the query by analyzing the request syntactically and semantically to grasp the essential question the end-user is asking. This process takes milliseconds. If the query is indeed information-seeking, it is further processed by Teragram's technology.

Answers can be retrieved from structured or unstructured data found in hosted primary reference sources that Teragram has aggregated and ranked. They can also be retrieved from primary reference material such as online dictionaries and encyclopedias, news and other trusted informational Web sites.

Teragram Direct Answers delivers precise answers to many types of questions, from full questions ("When was Woody Allen born?" or "Who is the Governor of Louisiana?" or "What are the side effects of Benadryl?") to short word queries ("Iraq's population") to calculations ("25 miles/hour in m/s"), to questions whose answers are pulled from specialized servers ("What time is it in Paris?"), and many others.

Teragram's Direct Answer technology can be licensed as a service accessible via high-throughput servers hosted by Teragram, or as licensed software which can be tailored to meet your own enterprise needs.

Teragram Direct Answer technology is protected by issued and pending patents.