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Jacob Bar: Help me
With the Internet and databases it has become so much easier to find many of the answers to the above questions, to “populate” our models. ”Google It”, many TO practitioners now would say. That’s fine, but the problem is that the Internet (data and its complexity) is growing at an enormous speed and indexing is not keeping pace. It’s hard to choose what to believe when you ”Google It”. The advantage of Internet searching is that it puts an emphasis on the need for links, and that the practitioner must jump from one to another piece of information to patch together a final verdict. Don’t believe the first hit(s).
Jacob Bar, an Israeli gentleman with many years of experience in the theory of natural language and as special advisor to the Israeli Minister of Science & Technology, has developed a search engine, which is particularly well adapted to the needs of the TO practitioner. Jacob, who is a also a lover of good jokes, has called his engine: JbhelpMe.com or the Jbengine.
Jacob says that he has looked at the way we pose questions, when we do commercial appraisal and has reduced the multitude of questions to a few hundred ”natural language” queries. In a sense, he has qualified or multiplied the 10 dimensions of COAP (and other good business planning tools) by asking many more detailed questions.
Secondly, Jbengine searches not only the Internet, the few billion html-pages (and other protocols) which are publicly available via browsers. His engine also looks into certain Extranet sources, the large reservoir of ”internal” databases of different organizations. This gives the user exceptional search power of 700+ billion pages and also power to get to the core faster. This area of search changes its nature rapidly, so this verdict may be outdated in a few months. You will find Extranet sources, but then you will to have to pay to get the real stuff: what you find is only the teaser. A good example is Mindbranch
Finally, JbhelpMe collects information relevant to my query and presents it in one package. So I get Google feedback alongside information links from other search engines. For example, a search concerns only whether a given, keyword matches one or more patents. Jbengine returns information from several patent databases in one window, so it gives me faster and better overview.
The only real problem with Jacob’s useful work is that it is not always updated. I will show you ways to work around that problem.
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