Video Spidering
 The information that drives the enterprise comes from an ever-increasing number of sources, including video and audio files. Experts estimate that by the end of 2008, 20% of results in new information access projects will be refreshed every time a query is entered. The average worker is dealing with information overload on a daily basis - how to process it, where to locate it and how to derive meaning from it are all becoming problematic. Increasingly, workers familiar with consumer search technologies expect access to all forms of data, including information from the Internet, live broadcast feeds, and not just static files and recordings.
At the moment, most search engines use spiders that navigate an information web and create a basic configuration of the linked files. By rebuilding the image from scratch at defined intervals, the spider creates a simplified picture of the overall structure of the network it is searching. In between those time intervals, however, the information can easily become outdated and the results returned are therefore irrelevant. Spiders are unable to return real-time, dynamic information. Ant technologies, on the other hand, respond to the current landscape and deal with rapid changes. Real ants do not formulate a conceptual image of the landscape as they explore; they simply relay new discoveries back to the colony, which responds in a dynamic fashion. Software ants behave similarly, in that each ant will travel familiar paths to find the most relevant piece of information. However, in the Digital Age, ants are required to make periodic investigations of relevant enterprise applications to ensure they locate the optimum route and deliver results quickly. The solution lies in a hybrid of both technologies where the two work together to access and deliver relevant information. Spiders go about their normal tasks, such as monitoring and analyzing, then relay the information to an ant. When something changes, ants learn from the variation and can pass it along in real-time. Variations allow ants to adapt and optimize the way in which information is gathered. Systems react instantly because updates are reported immediately and new paths are dynamically created. This is especially useful in a newsroom or broadcast monitoring environment, where real-time reactions are often critical.
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