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.
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
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
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."
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?
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
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,
Google Analytics releases can be depended upon to change expectations on what web analytics packages should all be able to do. If you're one of the other analytics vendors, you have to make sure your product does at least everything that Google Analytics can do...plus some
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.