Research is not a simple task, nor is it always fruitful. Sometimes, it can take hours trying out keywords, seeing where those keywords lead and following up those leads until you’ve finally gotten the information you were looking for. Sometimes, those threads can finally lead you to conclusions, or down paths you weren’t aware of to begin with.  

A new application called Omnity, which was being shown in the Eureka Park section at this year’s CES, tries to help in that quest by allowing users to search for information through context rather than simply via keywords. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Omnity uses algorithms that find connections between the rarely shared words in a sentence or paragraph and then research those connections.

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