What are Conventional Validity/Google Search Missing?

Prior art and validity search services rely on mostly on purchased content from various content providers, well known publications like IEEE and ACM, focusing their content largely on Published Literature.  These services often overlook open-source content and those from online or lesser known publications and journals.  Further, they do not have the scope or capacity to harvest data from the Deep Web.

Prior art and validity search services do not offer interactive portals for analysts to further refine content.  Their solutions are one-off answers with no custom refining or searching.  HarvestIP's on-line portal puts the analyst in control to continue the refinement process through discovery.

Validity Search Considerations

• Validity search services only access a few million documents versus the trillions of documents available the open-source Web
• Validity search reports are   limited to a small set of results versus the potential hundreds or thousands of results available through the open-source Web
• Validity search services do not offer an interactive portal design for further document refining with document ranking
• Validity search reports contain non-published literature references that often are hard to locate on-line for quick review even though a lot of this content does exist in the open-source Web today Patentability search services are limited to WPTO and PTO resources ASSUMES that everything related to new ideas already exists in the patent literature.  Often missing related information around trade secrets or unpatented information from the open-source Web
• Remember, getting published in a peer reviewed journal takes an enormous amount of energy and time, and many articles are never published.  Many authors are going straight to non-traditional publication routes that are available only on-line within the open-source Web.  Limiting your NPL search to peer reviewed publications with such a hurdle will exclude a lot of publicly available information.

Google Considerations

The goals of all major search engines is to return as much "surface" information as possible (by popularity rankings).  Further, these companies rely on providing quantity, not "quality" custom content from custom queries.  They cannot search deep within websites and must rely on the user to click from link to link.

The problem for all search engines is that they are in the "re-indexing" business and like to operate their engines without a query front end.   After all, they cannot simply take every query that is issued to Google and then turn around and re-issue that same query to a million Deep Web sites.

Exploring a Deep Web that Google Can't Grasp - New York Times, '08

• Google and Surface Crawler Services:
  • Stale information that everyone already knows exist, especially patent literature "Search" turns up too many results with too many irrelevant references
  • Critical information is often buried, missed or inaccessible amongst the clutter
• You must exploit ALL content on the open-source Web -not just what Google or West Law thinks is relevant
• Don't limit your research to the same databases and resources your competition uses
• Harvesting the most up-to-date content is critical; don't rely on static search services
• U.S. Intelligence Agencies use our harvesting technology to monitor "real-time" information from around the world in their effort to thwart terrorism

Google ranks results based on popularity - do you want the most popular answer or the most relevant answer?