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searchtools in abeyance 3 Jan 2012 | 03:55 pm
Due to professional commitments and health issues, I'm not updating this blog.
Who owns Search in the Enterprise? 14 Oct 2011 | 04:07 am
Sometimes it's IT, Communications, HR, everyone, or no one. None of these by themselves are sustainable for supporting information access in the long term, so we as professionals must find some way to...
Fall Enterprise Search Summit is coming soon 5 Oct 2011 | 04:43 am
The Enterprise Search Summit will be in Washington, CD, from November 1 to 3, and it's looking good! We're concentrating on strategies for making Enterprise Search work in the real world, with case s...
site search, relevance heuristics, open information extraction, rebel search, and more links 17 Aug 2011 | 10:30 am
On-site search is about more than finding the right products | UTalkMarketing Good intro to ecommerce search based on significant online retail experience. tags: e-commerce site-search site search e...
links: AT&T uses Solr, spellchecking, opensource Google Connectors, Classifying Searcher 21 Apr 2011 | 10:30 am
Search as middle-ware at att.com, with Shantanu Deo - Coté's People Over Process » Informal conversation starts with AT&T's CMS and goes on to talk about using Solr for catalog search on the site. I...
link: ZettaSearch - combined search and analytics (BI) 19 Apr 2011 | 10:30 am
ZettaSearch - combined search and analytics (BI) Starts with Solr/Lucene and adds autosuggest for faceted metadata, geospatial filtersing, spellchecking, search sessions, integration with external re...
links: Google Autocomplete & Instant, Exorbyte Long Tail of Ecommerce Search 16 Apr 2011 | 10:30 am
How Google Instant’s Autocomplete Suggestions Work - SearchEngineLand Danny Sullivan's detailed look at how Google's auto-complete and instant search, which seems to be populated by a combination of ...
last call for ESS 2011 Fall talks 15 Apr 2011 | 11:36 am
This is it! Submit your ideas for presentations by the 16th -- they don't have to be polished abstracts, case studies and real-life examples are best. We particularly need more talks on open-source s...
links: Forbes re Unified Access, ecommerce search, autonomy idol search, users search skills limited 15 Apr 2011 | 10:30 am
A Vision for Unifying Access to Data and Documents - Forbes [Attivio] Describes Attivio's combination of unstructured and structured data for a new kind of BI. ... entity data and the sentiment analy...
notes: Interaction Models for Faceted Search, compound term processing 14 Apr 2011 | 10:30 am
Interaction Models for Faceted Search « Information Interaction Tony Russell-Rose does a great job identifying various models of faceted search interactions, including the relations between the facet...