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The Glass Box Approach to Enterprise Search

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 0:00:00 GMT

Industry surveys show that during the last ten years, no improvement has been made in enterprise search user satisfaction. Why is This? A new white paper.

Some Aspects of Search are Harder than Others

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 0:00:00 GMT

I look at the problems we’re solving today and I compare them to the problems which we solved way back when, and I’ve come to the realization that there are many different types of ‘hard...

The Six Commandments of Search

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 0:00:00 GMT

Search Technologies' Chief Architect, Paul Nelson, discusses six golden rules for ensuring that your search engine implementation project is successful

We love government documents

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 0:00:00 GMT

Whenever I say this in meetings, it always gets a laugh. But the truth is that we do love government documents, and we love them for two reasons...

The Unique Challenges of Name Searching

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 0:00:00 GMT

Recently I’ve been involved in several projects that require searching over lists of names, and so I’ve been thinking a lot about the unique challenge that is searching for names.

What is your Search Maturity Level?

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 0:00:00 GMT

At Search Technologies we talk a lot about the concept of “Search Maturity Level”. We find this to be a convenient way to classify the sophistication of a search implementation, and that in turn helps clarify what steps it would take to move up from one level to the next.

What does Relevant mean?

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 0:00:00 GMT

Relevancy ranking is the process of sorting the document results so that those documents which are most likely to be relevant to your query are shown at the top. But what does it mean to be "relevant"? There are two schools of thought as to what makes a document relevant...

Why Test Search Programmers are Different

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 0:00:00 GMT

I am sometimes taken aback when I hit up against programmers and systems engineers from the "regular world". "Why don't they get it?" I ask myself. But of course they don't, not due to any lack of intelligence or insight, but simply because they don't yet realize that text search programming is not like regular programming.