New Feature: AI Search
Introducing a smarter way to search
Open Measures is excited to introduce AI Search, a new AI tool, to our platform – designed to help researchers build better search queries with less effort.
What It Is:
A powerful tool to help track new leads and increase efficiency, allowing users to spend more time on analysis and less time on constructing queries. This new feature refines and strengthens search terms, so users can get more complete, specific, and relevant results – even across multiple languages.
What It Isn’t:
An AI search engine (although that’s coming soon!). It also doesn’t run searches; it helps form better ones. And while it’s smart, it’s still just a tool, not a replacement for human judgment. The more thoughtfully it’s used, the better it gets at helping.
Use Cases
Below are some examples of who might find AI Search useful (and how):
Crisis Monitoring in Multilingual Environments
An NGO tracking online discourse around an unfolding humanitarian crisis needs real-time sentiment analysis in local languages. For this, AI Search can be particularly helpful.
AI Search’s Role: Expanding the boolean string to include keywords in relevant languages (e.g., Ukrainian, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew) and related terms that may not directly translate but have contextual significance.
Impact: Ensures comprehensive, real-time data collection for situational awareness and response planning.
Coordinated Influence Detection
An election security organization tracking signs of coordinated disinformation campaigns targeting voter registration in US swing states would also benefit from AI Search.
AI Search’s Role: Suggesting complex queries incorporating keyword variants in multiple languages, time-sensitive campaign slogans, and locations down to the country level across fringe platforms.
Impact: Enables timely messaging, flagging networks that are trying to suppress or mislead voters before election day.
Corporate Communications and Early Warnings
Brands defending against false narratives or unlicensed use of trademarks in unofficial channels like Telegram or TikTok can also benefit from AI Search.
AI Search’s Role: Constructing queries that match on deliberate misspellings, brand nickname variants, or synonyms of negatively misleading phrases.
Impact: Speeds up detection of damaging activity, helps teams act faster to issue takedown requests and prepare messaging.
See AI Search In Action
Researchers around the globe need innovative tools to contextualize online activity against offline activity. Our new AI Search feature was designed for just that purpose, making it that much easier to conduct research at scale.
Because of the cost associated with managing and maintaining AI Search, it is unlikely to be incorporated into the public/open-source version of Open Measures. For those considering AI Search, reach out to schedule a demo and we’ll help you find the best fit for you and your organization.
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