Is Enterprise Search dead? No, but it’s changing…
I spent yesterday morning at Ovum’s briefing on Enterprise Search, and they kindly invited me to sit on a discussion panel. One of the more controversial topics raised by analyst Mike Davis was ‘Is...
View ArticleSearch Solutions 2011 review
I spent yesterday at the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s annual Search Solutions conference, which brings together theoreticians and practitioners to discuss the...
View ArticleSearch Meetup Cambridge – Challenges of Unstructured Data
Another Cambridge Search Meetup this week, with two speakers on unstructured data, plus the usual networking, beer and snacks. We started with Dean Yearsley of Pingar talking and bravely attempting a...
View ArticleStrange bedfellows? The rise of cloud based search
Last night our US partners Lucid Imagination announced that LucidWorks, their packaged and supported version of Apache Lucene/Solr, is available on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service. It seems...
View ArticleSearch Solutions 2012 – a review
Last Thursday I spent the day at the British Computer Society’s Search Solutions event, run by their Information Retrieval Specialist Group. Unlike some events I could mention, this isn’t a forum for...
View ArticleRescue attempts continue for those abandoned by closed source search
I notice this morning that Autonomy have created a rescue program for those unhappy with Microsoft’s decision to offer FAST search only as part of Sharepoint – slightly late to the party, considering...
View ArticleThe trouble with tabbing: editing rich text on the Web
Matt Pearce, who joined the Flax team earlier this year, writes: A recent client wished to convert documents to and from Microsoft Office formats, using a web form as an intermediate step for editing...
View ArticleSearch Solutions 2013, a review
Yesterday was the always interesting Search Solutions one day conference held by the BCS IRSG in London, a mix of talks on different aspects of search. The first presentation was by Behshad Behzadi of...
View ArticleHow not to predict the future of search
I’ve just seen an article titled Enterprise Search: 14 Industry Experts Predict the Future of Search which presents a list of somewhat contradictory opinions. I’m afraid I have some serious issues with...
View ArticleSearch Solutions 2015 – Is semantic search finally here?
Last week I attended one of my favourite annual search events, Search Solutions, held at the British Computer Society’s base in Covent Garden. As usual this is a great chance to see what’s new in the...
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