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Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Oct-2011
I have just spent two days at the inaugural European Enterprise Search Summit in London, and left with much to think and rant about. For I listened to a series of consultants and vendors telling the audience that enterprise search was an imperative ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 29-Aug-2011
Now that HP has announced its intent to buy Autonomy, the deal has come under a lot of scrutiny. One area though that few have yet to look at in detail -- and of particular interest to us as buyers' advocates -- is the whole topic of the IDOL search OEM business ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-May-2011
I have been attending and speaking at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York this week, a good conference with many opportunities to rub shoulders and pick the brains of smart folk. But it's also an event that gives me a sense of deja-vu, since so little appears to change in the world of search. In fact I am fairly convinced that I could pull out a presentation from a decade back, brush off the dust, and present it with a straight face today ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Apr-2011
Today I was thinking about search tools -- and adjacent topics such as content/business analytics -- and all the different situations that today's enterprise search engines find themselves involved in ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 11-Apr-2011
As I've noted on this blog many times before, a lot of Google Search Appliance's "features" are actually outside-of-the-box, rather than out-of-the-box. That can present an unpleasant surprise to many Google customers. But ironically, it's also a great advantage to anyone who wants to use ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 31-Mar-2011
I led a session at last week's Info360 event in Washington DC called "ECM & BI - a Shotgun Marriage." I was unsure about it from the get-go, as my fear was that I would spend 45 minutes essentially making a single point: that these two things are largely incompatible. What actually transpired was a bit more interesting ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-Feb-2011
One of the questions I hear time and again is: "We're running SharePoint. Should we get a Google Appliance for search?" This was the case with SharePoint 2007, and it hasn't changed with 2010 ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 11-Nov-2010
We've released a number of updated product and vendor evaluations within our enterprise search & information access research stream this week. Apoorv Durga, Adriaan Bloem, and I are seeing many search vendors broadening their capabilities. But as usual, with more complexities come more potential implementation pitfalls and challenges ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Oct-2010
Google is announcing a new version of the Google Search Appliance today -- version 6.8 of the company's enterprise search solution. The headline feature is "Cloud Connect" -- but that's in fact a pretty superficial addition. If you look at the technology, what's more interesting is that this release marks another small step in Google's long transition from fiction to reality ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Aug-2010
However, make no mistake: FAST may be a lot less expensive, but it's certainly not going to come cheap. Not in the least bit because implementing it right will still be an expert's job. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 14-Apr-2010
Politics aside, I've always enjoyed watching the occasional French president's speech on television. Where U.S. presidents act, well, presidential, and the Queen will be regal, a French head of state is much more expansive. And nowadays, we can also compare another style: on-line presence ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010
For years now Google has played fast and loose with information confidentiality and privacy issues. As if further proof were needed ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 7-Dec-2009
Maybe it's because a Google Appliance is an actual, physical machine, and not just an intangible piece of software. But the question that keeps popping up is "can you actually keep it running once the 2-year license runs out?" ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-Oct-2009
Google released a fairly significant version 6.2 of its appliance today. There's a very corporate YouTube video summarizing the main novelties, and a quirky one about the one spotlighted for this release -- the "Self Learning Scorer," which uses indirect feedback from clickthroughs to improve ranking ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 24-Jul-2009
This week we released an update of our Search & Information Access Report 2009 ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Jun-2009
In a clip on YouTube, an interviewer asks passersby in Times Square what a browser is.The surprising result: many think it's a search engine ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Jun-2009
A few months ago, I blogged about ISYS offering their document converter filters as a separate component. My thought was these would come in handy to add on ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Jun-2009
At CMS Watch we evaluate an awful lot of products, and making sense of all this research can be a challenge. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 11-Jun-2009
Last week, I posted a highly critical comment on Google's marketing of the Appliance, version 6 ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Jun-2009
The release of a new major version of the Google Search Appliance usually creates lots of excitement, but that excitement fades quickly once people start to use the machines for real ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 25-May-2009
After months of high anticipation of what this "Google killer" would bring, Wolfram Alpha was finally opened to the public a week ago ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-May-2009
I participated in an interesting panel yesterday at the Interop 2009 conference, Unified Communications Meets Enterprise 2.0 - Social Computing Love Fest or Battle Royale? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-May-2009
There's too much here to write up in one blog post, so I'll pick one of the cherries for you here. Last week's Enterprise Search Summit in New York ended with roundtable discussions ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 26-Mar-2009
A rather quaint trait of the Apache Lucene project's homepage is that the search is actually powered by Google ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 25-Mar-2009
Today we released some findings pointing out how Web CMS vendors are increasingly embedding website search into their packages ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Mar-2009
Demokritos would be proud: if you look very closely, you'll see that Omniture's "SiteSearch" offering is actually composed of Atomz ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 31-Jan-2009
At 1430 hours UTC on Saturday, January 31, the unthinkable happened. Google malfunctioned. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Jan-2009
I stumbled across an eWeek story about Cross-Language Enterprise Search, launched last month on Google Code. It's an add-on for the Google Appliance ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 19-Dec-2008
November brought bad news for all Livelyzens ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Nov-2008
While I was at jboye08, talking about enterprise search, Google snuck up from behind and surprised me ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Oct-2008
What's wrong with this picture? ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 27-Oct-2008
I've spent a lot of time recently researching various information-access technologies and search products, and I had a bit of an "Aha moment" the other day... ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Sep-2008
Yesterday Google sponsored lunch at the KM World and Intranets 2008 conference, and while we noshed on chicken ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 3-Sep-2008
My girlfriend really doesn't like spiders, so I regularly get to roll up my newspaper and squash one. I'm not so much afraid of them, but that's starting to change: they can be lethal to a website ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Aug-2008
Google has announced its new Search Appliance, version 5.2. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Aug-2008
As the buzz has it, public website search engine Cuil is the new Google challenger ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-May-2008
Searching information -- really, how hard can it be? So, why wouldn't you go out and get a search engine that's for free ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 12-May-2008
Over the last few years, many people (including us) have asked whether or not Facebook can be used as a enterprise intranet. Many have dismissed this notion ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 1-Apr-2008
Great theater. Awesome Indian food. Hyde Park in springtime ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 21-Mar-2008
My colleagues Tony Byrne and Adriaan Bloem recently wrote up a summary of pros and cons, as well as offered sound advice, regarding the Google Search Appliance ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Mar-2008
CM Pros organized an event on the topic of enterprise search last week, with two case-study presentations and a fair bit of discussion among attendees. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 12-Mar-2008
Conference events and tracks are getting nichey-er and more specific, and rightly so, as every year the knowledge we accumulate about content technology gets deeper and more nuanced, which begs more specific presentations and probing questions from implementers ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Mar-2008
Herewith some random thoughts on the first half of the 3-day AIIM Conference & Expo in Boston, MA, USA ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Feb-2008
So Google has launched a product to compete with Microsoft's SharePoint, called Google Sites ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 19-Feb-2008
As my scrupulous colleague Adriaan Bloem pointed out last month about Google, sometimes vendors and their marketing evolve more quickly than products themselves ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 17-Jan-2008
With every vendor acquisition, and the uncertainty this brings for existing customers, I see self-perceived competitors step in with cut-rate offers to "upgrade" to their technology. But I was still surprised to see Google ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 10-Dec-2007
Last week, after giving a keynote on the current and future of Enterprise Search at the Online Information conference in London, the first question asked of me was, "Why shouldn't I just get Google? It's what my boss thinks is best." ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Dec-2007
Who would have thought that an after-hours Chamber of Commerce speech in Ann Arbor, Michigan by a former JotSpot exec could set the blogosphere abuzz with rumors of the impending death of Web Content Management as we know it? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Nov-2007
While writing reviews for the new Enterprise Search Report, I found myself frequently saying you should test the effectiveness of a given product against your own corpus of content, which is reiterated in the Report's "Advice" section. But I can't help ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Nov-2007
Today we released the Enterprise Search Report 2008, evaluating 18 major search vendors. We'll be discussing more about different marketplace trends and vendors in the coming weeks. For now, our initial release focuses on the stunted promise of hosted search, ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Jul-2007
Google has announced the Custom Search Business Edition, an ad-free version of their Custom Search, which allows small to medium businesses to use the search engine to index and query their website or specific other websites. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 7-Feb-2007
Google's recent announcement that it upgraded the "Mini" version of its Search Appliance ("GSA") inspires me to share some useful links that have been accumulating in open tabs ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jan-2007
CMS Watch contributing analyst Steve Arnold talks about search and related text mining technologies at Government Computer News. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-May-2006
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Added By Janus Boye on 8-Dec-2005
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