tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36583285137998729142011-11-28T01:57:30.098+01:00Nieuws, achtergronden en opinie over de onderwerpen Information Access an Enterprise Search, gepresenteerd in korte artikelen, webclippings en links naar interessante bronnen. -- News, backgrounds and opinions on the subject of Information Access and Enterprise Search, brought to you in short articles, clippings and links to interesting sites related to the subject.Edwin Stauthamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01823427442221782819noreply@blogger.comBlogger781100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3658328513799872914.post-71633665115991904282011-04-06T12:42:00.000+02:002011-04-06T12:42:39.053+02:00

Lucid Imagination, het eerste bedrijf met een commerciële support formule voor het leveren van het open source search product Solr, heeft een nieuwe versie uitgebracht van haar Enterprise class search oplossing: LucidWorks for Enterprises. Deze enterprise search oplossing begint een concurrent te worden van de commerciële oplossingen. Wat Solr met name mistte was een goede beheerschil én

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Soms moet je wel eens wat analyses doen op bijvoorbeeld responsetijden van een search omgeving. Ik gebruik dan vaak de command line PHP client omdat PHP zo lekker makkelijk én uitgebreid is. Nu had ik laatst een Windows 2008 R2 omgeving waarop Autonomy draaide. Om de performance te meten had ik een script gemaakt die alle zoekopdrachten uit een query log file haalde en die stuk voor stuk

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Vandaag heb ik een nieuwe Autonomy IDOL (7) omgeving opgezet op een nieuwe server bij een klant. Na de verschillende stappen doorlopen te hebben zoals: 1. IDOL7 installeren 2. Configuratie van de oude server kopiëren 3. IDOL7 starten 4. Controleren of alles werkte ben ik de export van de oude server gaan indexeren (http://localhost:9001/DREADD?filenaam.idx.gz). Daarbij bleek dat de

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Microsoft is bezig met een opmars op het gebied van Enterprise Search en ze gebruiken Sharepoint als vervoermiddel. Enterprise Search Resource Center | SharePoint 2010 Find overviews, how-to topics, and other resources to help you develop and deploy Enterprise Search solutions in SharePoint Server 2010 Het is bijzonder om te zien dat Sharepoint nu in één adem wordt genoemd met "Enterprise Search

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Forrester heeft op 14-03-2011 een rapport uitgebracht over het gebruik van Search Based Applications (SBA). Belangrijke opmerking in de samenvatting bij dit rapport is dat het heel moeilijk is om de ROI te meten van een “one-size-fits-all” zoekapplicatie. Omdat een search based application (SBA) zich ín een applicatie of werkproces nestelt zijn de resultaten echter wel meetbaar. Het gaat daar

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In de Metro heeft op 14-03-2011 een artikel gestaan over de lancering van een site van de politie met antwoorden op vragen over allerlei zaken die jongeren aangaan. Een student heeft op dit artikel gereageerd met de volgende tekst: “Ze kunnen beter iets anders doen, iets compleet nieuws dat er nu nog niet is. Tegenwoordig maken zoekmachines op het internet, zoals bijvoorbeeld Google, al die

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Exalead timmert nog steeds aan de weg als leverancier van Search technology. Sinds de overname door Dassault Systems is de toekomst van Exalead als merk onzeker. Vorig jaar kon Exalead Nederland nog niets zeggen over de toekomst vanwege de overname, maar door deze grote opdracht laat Exalead zien dat ze het product ook apart staande kunnen houden. Exalead staat bekend als de leverancier van “

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Ik heb al vaak uitgelegd wat "stopwoorden" zijn in de context van een zoekomgeving en waarom het gebruiken van een stopwoordenlijst van belang is. Mijn laatste zeer korte toelichting wil ik hierbij delen: Onze taal bevat veel worden die feitelijk geen betekenis geven aan de inhoud van een zin maar wel veelvuldig worden gebruikt. Duidelijke voorbeelden zijn woorden als “de”, “het” en “een”.

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Dankzij een bezoeker van een "round table" sessie van search vendors kunnen we smullen van de opmerkingen van de grote zoekmachines zoals Autonomy, Google en Endeca:"I was at a search vendor round table today...". Ook op de blog Beyond Search is dit artikel besproken.In eerdere jaren was het feit dat een search engine die facetted search in zich had, een reden om die oplossing te kiezen boven

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Vandaag blijkt uit een bericht op fiercecontentmanagement dat gebruikers niet tevreden zijn met de zoekfuncties in Sharepoint.Stephen Arnold haalt dit onderzoek aan in zijn weblog "Fierce critisism of Sharepoint".Ik onderschrijf deze kritiek. Dit is nou juist waarom zowel Google als Autonomy gebruikers van Sharepoint zien als een potentiele klant. Het IDOL-platform én de Google Search Appliance

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Toen ik net een mailtje ontving van een klant (van de overheid) viel mijn oog op de extra gegevens en disclaimer die onder het bericht stonden.  De extra gegevens, ik noem het bewust geen informatie, nemen meer ruimte in beslag dan de daadwerkelijk inhoud van de mail, die wel informatief is.Nu is het zeer gebruikelijk dat e-mails van grote organisaties ellenlange disclaimers en commerciële

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Een zeer goed artikel op de site van AIIM getiteld: "What is Enterprise Search". Search is not just search anymore, and the analyst company Gartner has in recent years been using the term "Information access technology" to include and expand on what they previously called "enterprise search technology". They use the term information access to include a collection of technologies to help you

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Een nieuwe(?) operator bij Google is de tilde (~). Door dit teken voor een zoekterm te plaatsen zoek je niet alleen naar het betreffende woord, maar ook naar synoniemen of vergelijkbare betekenissen van het woord: If you use Google to navigate the Internet, this just might be the coolest thing you read today: There’s a simple operator that lets you search for a word and all of its

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Net even een blik geworpen op de Google Enterprise Labs Site. Er blijken twee interessante nieuwe features voor de Google Search Appliance te zijn. Ondersteuning voor OpenSearch Het OpenSearch protocol beschrijft een standaard manier om een zoekmachine aan te spreken en om resultaten terug te krijgen. Hierdoor kunnen zoekapplicaties gebruik maken van zoekmachines zonder kennis te hebben van

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Artikel over het veranderen van het intranet van een communicatie en opslag tool naar een informatieplatform en samenwerkingstool: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/07/14/the-intranet-is-dead-long-live-the-intranet. Er wordt veel opgegeven over de social media en collaborative tools zoals Blogs, Bookmarking (del.icio.us), Real time document creation (Google Docs) en mengvormen daarvan (

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I decided to continue this site in English. The reason for this is simple. My main focus is the Netherlands and I think I can reach more people in Holland when I start writing in Dutch.

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The Lucid Imagination Blog has today posted a blog about the exciting new thing in Lucene, namely "Triplets". The only thing that I mis in this blogpost is any information about "Apache Lucene gives birth to triplets!". The blog is nothing more than a requiem to the Apache / Lucene project. How fantastic is the ongoing development of Lucene and Lucene and of course... Solr...Come on

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Is sometimes not what you think they mean.Read the Article "Google Dominates Enterprise Level Search" (http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2010/03/google-dominates-enterprise-level-search.html).No... you have not been sleeping for 3 year while Google has penetrated the Enterprise. It is just a wrong use of the words "Enterprise search". The author means "the use of web search from within the

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Today I had a meeting with a client and an external party that is going to develop the internal and external websites (intranet and internet) for them.Subject of the meeting was the relation that the (re)development of the websites have with "search" functionality. We tried to get a vision on how the sites could evolve with the use of search technology. Of course the issue of relevancy came to

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Just read an article about pulling the plug on the advanced search feature of the Financial Times: Newssift. About one year ago the interface got some pretty positive reactions, due to the fact that this kind of user interface was fearly new on a public website.Powered by Endeca the functionality heavily made use of facets. All categories, subjects etc. were made-up of metadata in the content,

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Today I received an update on one of te discussions on Semantic search on LinkedIn. Charlie Hull put up an excellent example on how semantic search works. This has to do with the capabilities of the search technology that is used in a specific situation, but also with the fact that a search application has to engage in a dialog with the user to assess his meaning or context. This has to do with

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Through a discussion on LinkedIn about real life examples of semantic search, I was pointed to the existence of Inbeta. I company with a curious name because it says that the company has a "Bèta"-status. I can't image what that says about there offerings. But now for the offerings of the company. On their product page they have many products listed.Of course the first one caught my eye because a

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Everyone who is active in the information access business knows that it is sometimes very necessary to combine the data from two resultsets into one.Example:The main search focusses on finding information from within a document. A document can have relations with many other datatype like geographical data like authors. Authors can have metadata themselves, like age, hobbies etc.Now let say you

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In the article Is Google moving too far (from search) too fast? there is a misconception:That expansion has some analysts wondering whether Google is in danger of losing focus on what made it such a profitable company, even as those same analysts say it can't rely on search as its only avenue for making money. Right now, Google relies on search for 95% of its revenue, according to Karsten Weide,

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Yesterday the guys from New Idea Engineering came with the rumour of a "large search vendor" buying in on a "partner" that has big business within the intelligence industry...Today the Guardian releases the news that Autonomy has acquired Microlink. MicroLink is a very valued Autonomy Partner that only 2 years ago was "partner of the year" because of their big revenues on selling IDOL licenses.

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A year after Lucid Imagination launched their activities they are now ready to have a face-lift.The company has set a name for marketing, implementing and supporting open source software based on Solr/Lucene.For what it's worth... the new site is less "techie". The former homepage has a lot of content derived from blogs and Twitter-accounts. They cut most of those feeds. A good choice in my

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Today I found a blogpost in my feeds from New Idea Engineering (one of my most favorite search consulting companies) stating that they heard of a search vendor that wants to acquire a consulting firm for it's marketing channel.This an example of the way the search vendors (like Autonomy) are broadening their activities beyond making and selling dedicated software. The vendors start to realize

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There is no time like the New Year to rethink everything and take a step back in an attempt to see the proverbial forest from the trees. Often this comes to me in the form of wondering where the words we use come from.The verb "search" comes through the Old French circare, meaning to "go about, wander, traverse," from the Latin circus or circle - A very fitting description indeed. The term comes

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Just found a webpage that I want to share with you: http://www.searchtools.com/info/user-interface.html  Just one page but with a treasure of information about designs and patterns made for search.

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The article on The Standard today about IT failing in helping intelligence agencies with discovering relations between pieces of information and “connecting the dots” pretty much amazed me. As we all (at least us information access professionals) know, the intelligence agencies in the US (and other countries) use search engine software intensively. The homepage of Autonomy states

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Finally a couple of months after the release of the Solr 1.4 distribution by Apache, LucidImagination – a company that deliveres commercial level support for the open source Solr engine – releases their certified version of the Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server. This distribution contains a comprehensive manual with lots of information on how to setup and use the search server. The

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In the article “Best and worst of times for enterprise search” the author, Paul Korzeniowski, mentions some vendors of enterprise search / eDiscovery solutions. The list of vendors is missing some very important players though, like Autonomy, Attivio en Microsoft / FAST. I would advise the author to be more thorough the next time

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A year ago DieselPoint ("search and navigation technology") was promoting their open source project OpenPipeline. When I was reading the promising intention I was enthousiast about this initiative.OpenPipeline intented to break open the closed source solutions to connect to different information sources and file formats. That would break down the walls of the vendors like Autonomy that protect

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Today I read an article with the title "Can Google succeed outside of search?"One piece of information got my attention a little bit more:But Google keeps pushing: Its still-in-beta Google Wave promises to attack one of Microsoft's most beloved products, its SharePoint collaboration software.To my knowlegde and experience with Google Wave, Wave is an online community platform and not so much a

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For some project I have to get search results from Google and follow the links on the result page to index those valuable resources.Google doesn't supply an XML-interface to it's search results.Bing (www.bing.com) and Yahoo (www.yahoo.com through an API key) do. Aside to the subject of this blog, I find this monopolistic behaviour of Google repulsive... They index al OUR content and resources,

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Today I saw the announcement "Google adds automatic captions to YouTube". I really like this addition to the possibilities of Youtube.But as we all know Google as a gigantic eposure in all thing they do.This feature seems a neat thing that makes it easier for consumers to upload there video's to Youtube regardless of language and eliminating the need for adding manual captions or descriptions to

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Short Post:Today I received an email from KMWorld with an advertisement by Coveo.They are issuing a free version of their Enterprise search suite with the name "Expresso".While they are not the only one (Omnifind yahoo Edition and Microsoft Search Server Express do the same) I still think that wrapping something as "enterprise search" in a free gift is not a good idea.As we all know Enterprise

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Stephen Arnold has written up an excellent analysis of the information that was given about the coming release of "Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint".Third, there is a reminder to me that SharePoint is a work in progress. I think someone told me that it is the next operating system from Microsoft. The Fast component will be called Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. Now the story gets

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Today I came across a blog posting about the Book "Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server ". As I mentioned earlier I am in the process of reading, dicing and slicing the book.I will post updates on my journey through the examples and findings, but I thought it would be nice to see a short reviews of the book in de mean time:http://happygiraffe.net/blog/2009/10/20/book-review-solr-1-4-

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Google announced some updates for the generation 6 of the GSA. They added a functionality that boosts relevance for documents / terms automatically when the link is clicked in the search results.From InformationWeek:Chief among the additions is a new algorithmcalled Self-Learning Scorer, which analyzes employee clicks and behavior toimprove the relevance of search results.If, for example, most

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Just yesterday I blogged about the article by Stephen Arnold in which he refers to new players and technology like Exalead in relation to the "old" players with their technology like Autonomy.A moment ago I received an e-mail alert from Reuters with the title "Autonomy Celebrates a Decade of Automatically Detecting and Acting on Patterns in Information".This press release by Autonomy states the

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A smart analysis of possibilities and choices you have when faced with an upgrade or change in requirements regarding your "old" Fast ESP (OEM) environment. The relationship with Sharepoint is an interesting one.From: http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/10/19/reflections-on-sharepoint-and-search/What can customers in a SharePoint environment do with a Fast ESP legacy system? I know what I would do

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From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101400362.htmlOur tipster says that he's only seeing the new ads in the developer versionof Chrome, but I'm seeing them as well in Safari, though some TechCrunch staffaren't seeing them in any browser. Google is always switching up ad placementand formats in various bucket tests, some of which are browser-specific, so

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Today I read this article on Beyond Search about strugling with large datasets in a database.Search technology can scale very easy with products like Autonomy IDOL and Exalead.Oracle RDBMS is good (the best?) at managing structured data but is not capable of handling transactions AND queries at the same time.Using search technology in conjunction with database technology simplifies the managing

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This weekend I started exploring the Book "Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server".Although Solr 1.4 is not actually released at the moment of writing, the latest nightly build does provide nearly all functionality and is very stable.In some of the coming posts on this blog I will share my experiences with the reading of the book and working through the examples. I will also make comparisons with some

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Just read this post on Beyond Search about the difference between Google/Apple interfaces and other interfaces in the enterprise that give you access to information. The Image is below.This funny little comic states what I have always said when talking about interfaces that must help people to find information. They must be simple, yet powerfull.In my opinion is it necessary to start a dialog

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The dutch company VLC has a great little application on their website that lets you interactively determine the ROI you will have when investing in a Google Search Appliance (GSA). They make use of the following factors:DocumentsEmployees% of knowledge workersCost per employeeBelow is the text on the website of VLC (in dutch): Bereken de voordelen van een goede zoekoplossing

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http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/180794.aspGoogle is offering Office productivity tools in de cloud through Google Apps. To my knowlegde they are the only one with such a rich online solution.When more and more people are going to use Google Apps, the suite is going to be a new standard. That will attract more users because it easier to exchange files in the same format.And what about

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I have said it before, and I will say it again: Google is growing out te be the next Microsoft. Driven by shareholders value the company is no longer the underdog. They are starting to set their own standard. The public opinion is changing...By implementing currently non-standard features on their homepage, Google aresending out a strong message on what they believe the new standard

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Must be something going wrong with implementing Fast.Talk is swirling around the largest listed company in the Cambridge cluster ofhigh tech companies, AutonomyCorporation plc, that it is an imminent target of a takeover offer fromMicrosoft.Talk in financial markets, (reported here by Reuters),is that the Seattle giant may make a bid at around 2,800p a share, which wouldvalue Autonomyat about

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Today the whole blogosphere buzzed about the fact that Google does not take into account the fact that website owners use keywords in the HTML meta-tags to describe the content.Even Beyond search has quaked about it.Google has reacted to this news very quickly, stating that their Enterprise solution does use this kind of metatags.The reason for not using user generated meta tags in the ranking

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Today Google announced a new Labs experiment: Google Fast Flip.Google already has an outlet for news, namely Google News.In my opinion Fast Flip is the same news outlet, only in a different interface. An intuitive interface I must add.But the Google News interface already has a "newspaper-like" shape. To scan the headlines I like Google News better. This also has to do with the fact that I can

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Today I read a blogpost on the Lucid Imagination blog about the fact that a Google employee chose Solr as the search engine for the site.The blogpost cited a part of the testimonial on the allforgood site on with I have to disagree with the reason for choosing SolrThe problem they had was:One of the top concerns we’ve been hearing from nonprofit organizations who listvolunteer opportunities on

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According to some representatives of European Parliaments (UK, Europe, Belgium) , Solr is the next new thing in the field of search solutions for their websites and intranet search.Today I was at a workshop focussed on the topic of search. The workshop was organized by the dutch Parliament and there were representatives of 8 parliaments of other European countries (Belgium, UK, Denmark, Norway,

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Beeing driven in a corner...LexisNexis is forced to search for other ways to keep up revenue. Users want cheeper solutions and are starting to turn to free content that is often published on the web, in stead of paying for it through the subscription services of LexisNexis.Now LexisNexis offers an integrated search solution that not only searches the LexisNexis content but also has the capability

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Now that search is becoming a commodity – at least the core search engine is – it is possible to focus more on presenting the relevant information in a user-friendly and usable way. Tools like tagging, rating, recommendations etc. must be incorporated into the interface without cluttering the information.   Companies like Vivisimo and Exalead understand this change illustrated by there

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Just received a Tweet from lucene_solr stating that the book about implementing the forthcoming Solr 1.4 as an enterprise search server, is finished. The authors expect the shipping to be within 2 weeks. I pre-ordered the book several weeks ago and now am awaiting the delivery!!!! Tags van Technorati: solr

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The past few weeks I see so much news and blog articles about the "Search options" that Google has rolled out on their image search application. They added this feature a couple of months ago for there regular websearch to.They are following the example of Bing who has had this from the start.I don't see the big news here because "search options" are a standard feature of any enterprise search

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Stephen Arnold just posted an article that is a write-down of one of his talks about the Google and the search market. This time the angle is Google as an application and gaming platform. First, Google is a platform, and it offers a range of software development kits, application programming interfaces, and “sandbox” toys. The idea is that a developer with online basic

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Gives me insight on how search results from Google compare to results that Big comes up with. Unified Search is a FireFox Addon thats let’s you not only compare Google or Bing, but also searches WIkipedia, Delicious and Wolfram. It seems that everyday the relevancy of Bing is getting better. Better of course if the results that Google comes up with is the “standard”. But how do I know if

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I said it a while ago and now Google is negatively in the news again. The Google is getting to big. In one of my previous posts I stated that whenever a company or person gets to much influence, it’s only a natural reaction of people to oppose to that force. On the other hand when a company gets to big, it’s harder to keep focussing on the goals and primairy activities that support those

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Twitter started as an internet equivalent of a short message service. The concept of beeing able to follow other people and to be followed by people that want to know what you’re up to has gotten millions of user to start twittering. Twitter got in the news when media started to realize that real-time breaking stories were beeing spread through message of Twitter users. Now Twitter has

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Just read the post on Beyond Search about Yahoo giving te Search to Bing… Will this really be the end of Yahoo as a First Real Internet Search Engine?   Luckaly Yahoo has some other great offerings like the news portal, Email and other productivity tools. Tags van Technorati: yahoo,google,microsoft,bing,advertising

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A few days ago there was an article on CMS Watch about relevance ranking.Grant Ingersoll of Lucid imagination reacted to that post:I couldn’t agree more with Therea Regli’s excellent discussion of relevance, especially the point to be “skeptical” of why results are the way they are. This is definitely true for search application developers too. The problem is, if you’re using a proprietary

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Much fuzz about the announcement of the Google Chrome OS the past few days. I must say that I am intrigued by the concept myself. My first reaction was like "Off course, after the Google Apps, Chrome Browser and Android this is the next step". Google is revealing itself more and more like the other established players as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle etc. They are actually building a stack of software

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Just read the Blog post on Beyond Search about the fact that ISYS is letting its connector technology be reselled by Lucid Imagination.According to Eric Gries, CEO of Lucid Imagination, "The combination of ISYS File Readers and Lucene/Solr offers a best-of-breed solution for enterprises that do not want to be held back by lack of functionality and the high costs associated with proprietary search

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Today Google announced the release of the 6.0 version of their Search ApplianceThe main improvements arebetter scalabilityThe Box can now hold up to 30 million documents and can be connected to more appliances to hold billions of documentsFlexible architectureIt is easier to connect more appliancesSocial Search capabilitiesAdd page to result.Some excerpts from other sources:http://www.itworld.com

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Through Linked-In I was pointed to a blog about a new kind of search or another way that the term "federated search" could be defined.“The triumph of the distributed Web.” He said the aggregate power of distributed human activity will trump centralized control. His main point was that Google, and other search engines that analyze the Web and links, are much less useful than a (theoretical) search

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http://dominicfallows.co.uk/2009/05/14/it-is-getting-too-clever-by-half/ Users of enterprise search technologies report that the enterprise will never be searchable ­ – there is just too much private (and valuable) information sitting on PCs and in obscure systems that use strange data formats. Service-oriented architectures typically fail to provide services and degrade into expensive mechanisms

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I didn't know that this feature existed.You can add a page that you missed in de result to the result page of a specific query.Another brilliant idea from the boys of Google. This way you collect "best results" with the direct input from (active) users.A similar functionality is the "SearchWiki" which let you add comments to pages in the results that are return by a query.

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Because of all the default settings in IE (Microsoft Live Search) and Firefox (Google Search) it is simple to forget that there is another good search engine that has been around from the "beginning of the WWW as we know it": Yahoo! search.The strange thing is that what Microsoft does with IE and Livesearch, Mozilla is doing with Firefox and Google. Of course you can change your default search

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Onderstaand een verhaal over de tegens van een "fat client" oplossing als Adobe Air. Lean and mean weboplossingen lijken nog steeds de voorkeur te hebben vanwege update-problemen. Ik geloof nog steeds in het meer aansluiten op de desktop activiteiten van gebruikers.... Zie: http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1492-The-case-against-Flex-based-application-UIs?source=RSS We're starting to see

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Mostly we are insulting normal users by saying that they just use a search engine wrong by not specifying the right search query for their needs... Microsoft has developed a program that can help users in getting their search done right. The post on msdn.com on "how well do we use our search engines?" tells the story about a study on getting the search right by playing a game. Do play the game

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According to this blog post by Google, they have more than 3 million users at educational organizations. It is not so surprising that Google gets very much attention in this user base. Students nowadays grew up with one company they now best. It is the company that delivers the only internet searchengine they know. The company that delivers the E-mail application they use. The company that lets

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Here from the IA-search blog I wish you all the best for the coming 2009. May you spend less time searching for information and more time doing better things with it.It has been very quite the last month but that will change in the next year. Watch your Google Alerts on the subject!

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Search Done Right » Blog Archive » Guessing About Search Intent: "An interesting conversation has emerged across the blogs this week regarding how well—or not—enterprise search solutions perform at finding information to the satisfaction of the individual user within the confines of an organization."

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Mention Google and some people in the audience lose the ability tolisten and "erase" any recollection of other companies mentioned orany suggestion that Google is not flawless."I have a hypothesis that if I mention Google in a talk, the audienceonly hears the word "Google". The force of the brand is so strong andusers are predisposed to respond to Google in an intense way any othercompanies

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Welcome to my weblog on information access and enterprise search. For a couple of years now I am working in this field, and I decided to share my experiences and opinions about it. I wil regularly post new articles and links.

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