October 26, 2009
Webinar:
Search Innovation and Social Media:
Search Strategies that Put Social Technology to Work
Hosted by KMWorld Magazine
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
11:00AM PT / 2:00PM ET
October 26, 2009
Having notched chapters in my career both in the mainstream internet and the mobile world, an article that blows a fuse on my buzz-meter is nothing new. Dion Hinchcliffe’s Enterprise Web 2.0 post yesterday certainly amps it up: “Are the iPhone and social networks making the classic Web and intranet obsolete?“. But there are some good points here:
Where the point of user attention and interaction resides and who controls it is one of the most…
October 25, 2009
Lucene 2.9.1 should hit the streets this week. 2.9.1 will be a bug fix release and includes a number of important fixes to the Lucene 2.9 release. You can see a list of the current 2.9.1 issues in JIRA here: JIRA 2.9.1 Issues. A couple of these bugs are quite nasty, so this is a highly recommended upgrade.
Why Lucene 2.9.1 rather than simply releasing the almost finished Lucene 3.0 with these bug fixes? After all,…
October 23, 2009
Among its recent technology news (beyond Windows 7 and the predictably delightful Apple riposte), two items of note, with previews of Sharepoint 2010 and the news around syndication of Twitter through Bing and Google. There’s a single underlying theme, as Alex Williams of readwriteweb/enterprise puts it:
Wikis, micro-blogs and collaboration technologies get a lot of attention for their use in the enterprise but one need remains constant.
Search.
Who[ever] wins the search battle will come home with a lot…
October 5, 2009
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If you’ve got a lot of data to tame in a variety of formats, there’s no better, deeper, faster platform to build your search application with than Solr. Solr 1.4 expands the power and versatility of the leading open source search server, with its convenient web-services interfaces and well-packaged server implementation.
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Erik Hatcher, co-founder of Lucid Imagination, co-author of Lucene in Action, and Lucene/Solr PMC member and…
October 4, 2009
A big chunk of the billions that go to search-engine marketing and search engine optimization, SEM and SEO, (mostly to you-know-who) are spent on getting to Page 1 of the results.
I won’t be the first to point out that relevance for in-house search — i.e., without using Pagerank — is a harder nut to crack. How much harder? A recent study from Aberdeen Group, publicized this week in Information Week, provides the following stat:
At…