LexisNexis expanding their services

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 to plug into local sources making it an enterprise search solution.

The new offering integrates Lexis Search Advantage® content and services
accessed through lexis.com with MindServer™ Search, Recommind’s enterprise search
platform. It provides a one-stop destination combining access to documents
and information from both a firm’s internal sources as well as trusted
LexisNexis® content, delivering search results that are more complete, efficient
and actionable.

The search engine is delivered by Recommind.

Enterprise Search – It’s all about the interfaces

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 publications on the website and in the way that they distribute their solutions. They have some pretty neat interfaces that come out-of-the-box.

Autonomy on the other hand still has no usable GUI for their IDOL product and the interface that the Google GSA comes with is to simple.

The interesting thing about Solr is its open source character. Because the community loves this, they are developing interfaces and frameworks for use with Solr. Examples are Blacklight and VuFind.

Book Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search server is finished

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!!!!

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Fuzz about Google search options

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 solution (Autonomy, Solr, Exalead). If you don't have faceted / parametric search the the search solution is useless.

The fact that so many websites see this feature as news has opened my eyes to the fact that so few people are used to real and usable search solutions at work. This strikes me as odd, because how are they able to find the info within their organisation then?

No wonder that the enterprise search / information access market has an estimate share of billions of dollars.