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| Sometimes it's IT, Communications, HR, everyone, or no one. None of these by themselves are sustainable for supporting information access in the long term, so we as professionals must find some way to do it better. At Qualcomm, they have created Enterprise Centers of Excellence (CoE), including Search, Content Management, Collaboration and Desktop, combining leaders from IT, Engineering, Program Management, Finance, and more. The Search COE has succeeded in providing a central organizing point for search, muting search technology affinity wars, and increasing awareness of search capabilites leading to increased demand for specialized tools. Mark Livingstone of Qualcomm and Miles Kehoe of New Idea Engineering will be presenting about this CoE experiences at the Enterprise Search Summit, and we'll have an open discussion at ESSF, moderated by Lynda Moulton, where experts and conference participants can share experiences, good and bad. The Enterprise Search Summit Fall will be held November 1 - 3, 2011, in Washington DC -- I hope to learn from you there. For a $200 discount, use the code at the online registration page. SPK11 | |
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| The Enterprise Search Summit will be in Washington, CD, from November 1 to 3, and it's looking good! We're concentrating on strategies for making Enterprise Search work in the real world, with case studies of successful implementations and practical information about search-based applications and mobile search. New to our lineup is Greg Nudelman, author of this year's best book, Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success. He's been involved in several mobile search interfaces, and will present Ubiquitous Enterprise Search: New Design Approaches for Mobile and Tablet -- this is going to be good! Register for the conference before October 7 to get the early-bird discount. BTW, I've been so busy with this conference and a large contract with a giant healthcare system's intranet search that I haven't been very responsive, and I apologize. If you need something from me, please remind me by commenting here or sending email, don't be shy! | |
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| [Heuristics for Relevance] Solr Powered ISFDB – Part #11: Using DisMax Traces the algorithmic relevance problems in search on a textual database of authors and books. This chapter shows how to use the Solr DisMax functions to add extra relevance weight for matches on canonical names and alludes to adding weight for titles matches -- well-known heuristics for getting more useful search results. tags: relevance evaluation open-source ReVerb - Open Information Extraction Software (open source text analytics) To extract assertions for question-answering systems, the ReVerb package implements the Open Information Extraction (Open IE) theory. Without needing complex training examples and domain-specific words, this simply extracts relationships, such as "apple has phone". It's open-source, along with the extracted sets from wikipedia and TReC's ClueWeb09 corpus. tags: natural language processing entity extraction open-source Rebel Search for SharePoint Competing with sharepoint search on near-real-time index updates, faceted refinements, faster crawling, default configuration is easier to maintain, more extensible in pipeline, etc. Price is about $14,000 per server, no need to buy additional SharePoint licenses. tags: enterprise search engine Windows .NET-C#-ASP facts Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. | |
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Google Custom Search API - pricing Any usage beyond the free usage quota [100 queries per day] will fail if you are not signed up for billing. Once you have enabled billing, you will be billed for all requests at the rate of $5 per 1000 queries, for up to 10,000 queries per day. If you need additional quota, please request additional quota from the console. tags: cloud-hosted site-search web-search engines
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How do I create a CSE that searches the entire web? - Custom Search Help Google will let you search the whole web, though the results will be different from those of google.com, and you can only get the first 100 results. Usage is free up to 100 queries per day, with Google-supplied advertising, after that, it's available at approximately $5 per 1,000. tags: cloud-hosted web-search
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Autocompleter - Mountain View - US jobs - Google 34,000 wpm required... (April Fool's joke) tags: autocomplete
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Essential SharePoint: Metadata that checks in but won’t check out 9 columns that you should not add to your SharePoint document libraries – unless you want to keep them forever tags: metadata tagging
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| We've already received some good submissions via KMWorld, but this is for search in particular Enterprise Search Summit, Fall 2010: Call for PresentationsThe blurb: Search technology can pay off in big ways, but only if the implementation is firmly focused on user information needs. When search crosses boundaries and provides access to relevant information regardless of domain, it helps the enterprise network become more than the sum of its parts, but getting to that level requires a significant investment. Specific solutions can pioneer the way, solving high profile problems with scalable tools, and then incrementally expanding to make additional silos searchable. Whether applied in an international corporation, government agency, or complex web catalog, search technology is just a means to the true goal of supporting actions and decisions. The Enterprise Search Summit is a forum to share lessons learned from successes, but also from failures; to recognize approaches which return good value for the investment of money and resources; and to evaluate promising new technologies. Presenters in this conference are implementing enterprise-level search in corporations, governmental departments, public catalogs, and even e-commerce sites. Pre-conference workshops will offer an introduction to all aspects of enterprise search, including the indexing pipeline, query processing, recall, precision and relevance, user interface, scaling both content and traffic, federated search, analytics and more. To Submit a Presentation Enterprise Search Summit, Fall 2011 invites search engine practitioner of all kinds to submit proposals. Submit online only: http://www.enterprisesearchsummit.com/Fall2011/Proposal.aspx. The deadline for submission is April 16, 2011; during the review process we may ask for presentation outlines and examples of previous sessions. We will send acceptance and declination notices by June. Avi Rappoport, (the new Program Chair of ESS Fall, 2011) specifically encourages search administrators to submit proposals for presentations based on case studies, research, and practical experience. Proposals can include all aspects of enterprise search: strategic, technical, cultural, financial, and managerial. We are interested in adding more interactivity and audience participation, so we may redesign some topics from pure lecture mode to round-tables, seminars, challenges, quizzes, and other forms of community discussion. We are very interested in proposals which deprecate PowerPoint in favor conversational approaches. New topics we would particularly like to see included: Scaling and distributing search to handle millions of documents and thousands of queries per minute Indexing pipeline tools and processes, including both proprietary solutions and new initiatives such as OpenPipeline, Pypes, IUMA and ManifoldCF. Can SaaS cloud-hosted search work in the enterprise, or is the exposure too much for comfort? What’s scarier about search than CRM? What can new semantic technologies add to search? Where is the return on investment most clear? UX and usability, making best use of new interface elements such as autocomplete and AJAX. Mobile search - is it a UI problem only? Standard federated search languages such as RSW, OAI and OpenSearch, with special emphasis on security and authentication. Most effective ways of integrating search on images, audio, and video files. Who should own search in the enterprise? What is the right level of investment in search projects and ongoing maintenance? Thank you and we look forward to seeing your proposal! Enterprise Search Summit 2011, Program chair Avi Rappoport | |
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Secure Search in Enterprise Webs: Tradeoffs in Efficient Implementation for Document Level Security Useful research - dependence of query processing time on result set size and visibility density for different classes of user. Scaled up to collections of tens of thousands of documents, our results suggest that query times will be unacceptable if exact counts of matching documents are required and also for users who can view only a small proportion of documents. We show that the time to conduct access checks is dramatically increased if requests must be sent off-server, even on a local network, and discuss methods for reducing the cost of security checks. We conclude that enterprises can effectively reduce DLS overheads by organizing documents in such a way that most access checking can be at collection rather than document level, by forgoing accurate match counts, by using caching, batching or hierarchical methods to cut costs of DLS checking and, if applicable, by using a single portal both to access and search documents. tags: enterprise intranets search engines security user experience -
Developing a SharePoint 2010 Strategy. . . or How Setting It Up and "Getting It Out There" Is Not a Strategy A synthesis of many cases where Sharepoint has been implemented so haphazardly that the results complex structures and frustrating user experiences. Jeff Carr identifies key components for success with SharePoint: purpose, governance, people & objectives, requirements, IA, technology, and maintenance. tags: intranets enterprise CMS search engine information architecture
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RAMP Multimedia Search Service RAMP site search indexes text, images, audio, and video with its own transcript-creator and MetaPlayer interface. It provides faceted search results, as well as federated and "blended" search, and has contextual content recommendations and interface widgets, search suggestions, spell correction, and keyword merchandising The search is designed to work with the company's Publishing, Workflow, Video and Advertising modules, but may not depend on them. It's SaaS and the pricing model is mysterious but probably fairly high. tags: cloud-hosted multimedia site-search ecommerce enterprise search engine
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The Open Vocabularies Service - SKOS Editor, repository for Controlled Vocabularies A collection of controlled vocabularies, a Visual Vocabulary Editor, to
visualize relationships between concepts in complex classification systems. Import/export formats include SKOS, HTML, Excel tags: taxonomy tagging concept-matching -
Solr Powered ISFDB – Part #7: Simple UI Low-key post blogging changes to the default Solr user interface with. tags: search engine user experience -
Lucene Revolution conference sponsored by Lucid Imagination The talks look really interesting tags: open-source enterprise search engines search-vendors Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. | |
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