Search Engine White Papers
INTRODUCTION
- All of our white papers are search product neutral and their content is applicable to any of the leading search engines
- These white papers are written by our staff and based on experience gained over many years and more than 250 search engine implementation engagements
- They are instantly downloadable. Just enter your email address in the appropriate box, and a download link will be immediately emailed to you
Making the Most of Search Navigators download
Search navigators (a.k.a. dynamic navigation, faceted search, guided navigation) are the most important innovation from the search engine industry during the last ten years. They are now widely used and easily understood by search users. Yet they are often poorly deployed.Working from first principles, this white paper explains the role of search navigators within a successful search system and provides guidance and advice for maximizing their benefits.
A Document Preparation Methodology for Search download
All important search engine features, from relevancy ranking and results sorting to search navigators and graphical results display, require metadata and data structure.This must be automatically created to an appropriate level of accuracy.
Search Technologies' Document Preparation Methodology for Search (DPMS) is a collection of techniques and processes which prepare data to drive important search functions. This comprehensive white paper provides a detailed description of current best practices, including system architecture, implementation planning and quality control aspects.
The Glass Box Approach to Enterprise Search download
Reputable industry surveys show that during the past ten years no improvement has been made in search user satisfaction. This was the search industry's "lost decade".Why is this?
This white paper identifies the key issues that are holding user satisfaction back, and presents proven approaches to enabling highly productive enterprise search use.
We need to think in terms of glass boxes, not black boxes.
Aspire - The High Performance Content Processing System download
This white paper discusses the content processing challenges associated with large or business-critical search applications, and introduces a search engine independent framework called Aspire.Aspire is in use serving important search systems in a growing number of large corporations and government departments.
What Every CIO Should Know about Enterprise Search download
This white paper presents five key principles that every CIO or senior
IT decision maker should understand about using search engines. Topics
include data size & findability, subjectivity and search relevancy, the use of search results personalization, and the importance of data quality.This concise document will arm any decision maker with the information they need to make better informed choices about the use of search engines.
A Search Architecture for Archived Government Documents download
This white paper presents a comprehensive plan for implementing a standards-based government archive.It is specifically designed for secure, long-term preservation and ease of electronic search, access, and dissemination.
The architecture uses open source components and is modelled on some of the world's largest government document archives.
