Dr. Giles was the cocreator of the popular academic search engines: CiteSeer, now CiteSeerX. He also codeveloped other specialty search engines such as ChemXSeer for chemistry; BotSeer for robots.txt; CollabSeer for collaboration search, ArchSeer for archaeology; Refseer for citations, AckSeer for acknowledgements, and BizSeer for academic business.
His current research and consulting interests are in intelligent information search for specialty and niche domains and large data. Current particular interests are:
- Intelligent search engines and portals.
- Web search, knowledge management and extraction, information and data mining, digital libraries and web databases.
- Automated cyb...