European commission funds project to make internet searches faster and easier; BT Exact leads project to give search engines context capabilities.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-15 March 2004-BT: European commission funds project to make internet searches faster and easier; BT Exact leads project to give search engines context capabilities(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03152004 The European Commission (EC) is funding a project to develop a way for search engines to work out the overall subject matter of a web page and tackle the growing problem of finding the right information from the masses of unstructured text on the internet.

For example, the term ATM is used in both the banking industry as an abbreviation for automated teller machine, and in the communications business as an abbreviation for asynchronous transfer mode. Today, a search referring to ATM would produce information on both topics. BT...