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Added By Jarrod Gingras on 10-Jan-2013
Today we updated our Enterprise Search evaluation stream, specifically with updates to two key platforms ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 29-Nov-2012
The search market has similar, if distinct challenges to address right now ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 17-Aug-2012
There is something really important to consider here; namely that the there is an increasing gap between the what vendors are pushing as important and what real customer use cases actually demand ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 10-May-2012
WARNING: If you're already getting "Big Data" buzzword sickness, look away now, as Lucid Imagination -- the professional open source distributor of the Apache Lucene/Solr search platform -- has announced a beta program for its formal entry into the "Big Data" turf war. It's called, predictably, ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 11-Apr-2012
We've recently published our "2012 Enterprise Search Market Analysis." After 2011's raft of acquisitions, this year promises to be another interesting one for search customers: ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Nov-2011
Enterprise Search engines can be divided neatly into two categories: those optimized for website search and those optimized for searching across internal information silos. Today the gap between the two is opening ever wider ... 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 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 Kas Thomas on 11-Mar-2010
Lucid Imagination, the commercial company that distributes its own certified versions of the open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, has raised $10 million in Series B funding from a series of venture capital firms ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Jan-2010
What if finding that one bit of information is of vital importance? Well, it may not have been the main story angle of last month's attempted terrorist attack, but we've certainly heard a lot about how good information management might have prevented the attempted airline bombing. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 8-Dec-2009
Subscribers to our Search and Information Access Research are well aware that we've been increasing our coverage of Apache Lucene lately, in keeping with the phenomenal -- and still growing -- popularity of Apache's well-known open-source search engine ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 11-Nov-2009
I've been covering IBM's search technology (for our Search and Information Access Research) for two years now, and I confess that I've never quite totally understood the strategy (if there is one) behind IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition (OYE) ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 28-Oct-2009
Anyone who's been watching the search space for a while knows that Apache Solr -- the popular open-source search server built on Lucene -- is the elephant in the room for a great many product-selection teams these days. It may be an exaggeration to say that most product-selection discussions begin with ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 14-Jul-2009
A while back, I wrote about our decision to expand our coverage of Apache Lucene for the Search and Information Access Report, based on what seemed like an accelerating rate of adoption of Lucene and related technologies ... 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 8-Apr-2009
One of those easy-to-overlook but important details of a search engine: will it actually read your files? ... 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 13-Mar-2009
When enterprise search vendors say they're moving into Business Intelligence, I walk to my closet to take out my skepticism hat. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Jan-2009
For the most recent edition of the Search and Information Access Report, I had the opportunity to help expand our coverage of Apache Lucene. ... 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
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