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Emerging Web Standards: Keeping Up to Stay Ahead
Twenty years ago when the web was young, the topic of standards was mainly the purview of computer scientists, engineers, and enterprise technologists. But these days, with the impact of standards on everything from how content displays in various browsers and delivery on emergent devices to cost savings and search engine optimization (SEO), web standards have become everyone's business. Analysis by Nancy Davis Kho.
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Posted 06 Sep 2010
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How Secure Is Your Search?
A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers report titled "Trial by Fire," found that in a global survey of 7,200 senior managers responsible for information security, not one reference to the problems arising from search security are to be found. Securing search should be a key concern in search implementations, however.
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Posted 21 Jul 2010
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Google Search 2010: A mid-year report card
Search expert Stephen E. Arnold says Google has some work to do in making its wealth of products, services and resources more easily findable. In the meantime, buckle down and explore Google.
The payoff makes the effort worthwhile in many situations...
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Posted 03 Jul 2010
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Google Moves Left to Navigational Search Facets
Google has rolled out a major set of changes to search engine results pages and several smaller changes to its appearance. Left-hand navigational search facets are now turned on by default. Read the analysis by search engine expert Greg Notess, courtesy of ITI NewsBreaks.
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Posted 26 May 2010
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Faceted Misguidance
Martin White: "There are not many things in life that get under my skin. Currently, third on the list is poorly implemented faceted navigation. It is fast becoming the fix-all for search applications where users do more than skim the first 10 results from a list of 50,000."
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Posted 10 May 2010
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Enterprise Search or Content Management?
Avi Rappoport: "Over the years I've been part of many enterprise content management initiatives. I've seen each repository grow, usually isolated from the others. The result is often an ecosystem of different, disconnected enterprise knowledge assets. An emerging cross-vendor standard called content management interoperability services (CMIS) offers to connect some of those repository dots."
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Posted 07 May 2010
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PROJECT LEFTY: More Bang for the Search Query
The Federated Search Blog held its second annual writing contest to increase awareness of and interest in federated search. And (drum roll) the winner is . . . Kan Varnum (University of Michigan) who proposes a system that would improve relevance of search results based on known information about a searcher and his or her past search behavior. Read the winning entry here.
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Posted 12 Apr 2010
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At the Cutting Edge of Search
Program Chair Marydee Ojala discusses the line-up of topics and speakers at the 15th annual Search Engine Meeting next month in Boston.
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Posted 31 Mar 2010
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Google Gets Stung by Its Own Buzz
The week of Feb. 9, 2010, may go down as one of the worst in Google's corporate history in terms of product launches and public reaction. On that day, Google Buzz (http://buzz.google.com) invaded every Gmail account holders' workspace through an auto-setup, opt-out routine. Other than widespread rumors of an announcement the day before, Gmail users had no warning that potentially highly personal information would suddenly be shared with their most-used contacts (email addresses) through cloud computing technology. Over the ensuing 7 days, Google weathered an angry online swarm of complaints that it had failed to account for personal privacy requirements. Read the story from ITI NewsBreaks.
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Posted 03 Mar 2010
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Good Search Is Good Business
The importance of providing effective search is being recognized at last. Almost every intranet strategy project has had a substantial search element to it, and I've worked on several in which search has been the primary focus. There are always risks when extrapolating from a few projects and a few more conversations, but I see some trends emerging.
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Posted 22 Dec 2009
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Searching for Social at Enterprise Search Summit West
This year's Enterprise Search Summit West was a bit different than previous years; aligned closely with the co-located KMWorld program, the more streamlined conference allowed search-focused attendees to take full advantage of the three day event or to maximize their knowledge seeking across the larger KMWorld conference. Held November 17-19 in San Jose, Calif., the summit covered everything from federated and semantic search, to the topic people just can't seem to stop talking about: social search.
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Posted 09 Dec 2009
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E-discovery in a challenging economy
Recent surveys confirm casual observation that lawsuits are a large and growing part of the U.S. economy. A variety of surveys indicate that anywhere from half to nearly 90 percent of businesses, depending on the size and field, were faced with at least one in the past year. Yet many organizations remain completely unprepared. See what columnist Judith Lamont has to advise in this recent article from KMWorld magazine.
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Posted 28 Oct 2009
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Submit Your Proposal for Enterprise Search Summit East (May 2010)
We are now accepting proposals to speak at Enterprise Search Summit 2010, which will be held May 11-12 in New York. (Pre-conference sessions May 10). Submit a proposal at: http://www.enterprisesearchsummit.com/2010/CallForSpeakers.shtml
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Posted 26 Oct 2009
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The future of knowledge workers, Part 2
This is the second half of a two-part article, originally appearing in our KMWorld magazine, that explores the findings of a recent study on the future of the knowledge worker. The purpose of the research was to look at longer-term trends in how organizations will likely try to provide a compelling work environment that attracts, retains and leverages the best of the knowledge workers of the future. There are, of course, serious implications for search.
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Posted 30 Sep 2009
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Helping them Redisover Web Assets with iCyte
Even in a world of high-powered search tools, re-finding exactly what you've already discovered on the web can be challenging. Bookmarks sound so old hat. But what if they functioned like archives? Norman Schreiber shares his insights on iCyte in this product review of a tool that can take you back to the site you first saw.
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Posted 29 Sep 2009
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Podcast: Charlene Li on Social Media, Social Search, and Open Leadership
EContent editor Michelle Manafy interviews Charlene Li, co-author of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. They discuss leveraging social strategies in and outside organizations--and for search in particular. They also talk about Li's forthcoming book on Open Leadership and how understanding how open your organization should be (and achieving the right degree of openness) will determine its chances for success in the future.
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Posted 09 Sep 2009
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Searching for Better Knowledge Sharing
As a cross-regional healthcare operator, the Asklepios Group can sometimes struggle to share its knowledge across a variety of locations. In all its clinics, the quality of patient care depends on its employees' knowledge and experience. Learn how they found a solution in this case study from the 2009 Enterprise Search Sourcebook.
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Posted 05 Aug 2009
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Finding a Solution for Fact Finding
Hear how Dow Jones & Co. solved its need to provide search to its Factiva customers in this case study from the Enterprise Search Sourcebook, 2009 edition.
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Posted 08 Jul 2009
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Engineering a Content Get-Together
Modine, a global manufacturer, was using multiple intranets, which left employees on different continents feeling as if they were working for different companies. To address the problem, Modine's IT team consolidated and redesigned the intranets into one global portal that included unified search functionality. Which search engine did they choose? and why? Find out in this case study from the Enterprise Search Sourcebook.
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Posted 24 Jun 2009
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Mining the Socialprise: Uncovering Insights in the Information Overload
HR firm Advantage wanted to mine opportunities from the social web, but it couldn't have its team spending the whole day clicking through LinkedIn, Jigsaw, ZoomInfo, and Hoover's. Find out how they learned to mine the social landscape in this case study first published in our Enterprise Search Sourcebook.
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Posted 27 May 2009
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Building Search Teams that Work
When search fails to perform up to expectations, the excuse is usually that the software does not work. That is rarely the case. In the majority of cases the problems lie with a shortfall in human resources and not a shortfall in technology resources. How many people does it take to make a good search experience? Consultant Martin White recommends a minimum of five . . .
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Posted 29 Apr 2009
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Pictures Worth a Thousand . . . Finding Nontextual Assets Within the Enterprise
As if finding text-based content wasn't already challenging enough, the increasing number of graphics, audio, video, and other nontextual assets within organizations presents yet another enterprise search conundrum. In this article from the Enterprise Search Sourcebook, consultant Theresa Regli explores the intersection of enterprise search and digital asset management (DAM), as well as various ways of approaching the challenge of finding nontextual assets.
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Posted 15 Apr 2009
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Free Ebook: Unlock the Power of Enterprise Search
EContent magazine contributing editor Ron Miller has released a new ebook, Unlock the Power of Enterprise Search. The free ebook (no registration required) is a collection of Miller's articles on a variety of enterprise search related topics including the state of the market, mutlimedia search, semantic search, and much more. The ebook also features an introduction by well known search industry blogger Daniel Tunkelang, chief scientist and co-founder of Endeca. The book is available in both PDF and a digital magazine editions.
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Posted 06 Apr 2009
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Fight Search Fallacies with Well-Formed Content
Your organization's intellectual property (IP) strategy should not be based on the selection of a search solution. Rather, careful consideration of the uses, content, context, and structure of the organization's current data can make a big difference in the selection of a search tool—one that will really work. Hear what taxonomy expert Marjorie Hlava has to advise in this article from our 2009 Enterprise Search Sourcebook.
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Posted 18 Mar 2009
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Finding Nontextual Assets Within the Enterprise
As if finding text-based content wasn't already challenging enough, the increasing number of graphics, audio, video, and other nontextual assets within organizations presents yet another enterprise search conundrum. Here we'll explore the intersection of enterprise search and digital asset management (DAM), as well as various ways of approaching the challenge of finding nontextual assets.
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Posted 17 Mar 2009
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Humanizing Search: How Natural Language Processing Can Answer Enterprise Questions
Within the workplace and out on the wider web, semantic and natural language search believers argue it's time we were able to search for knowledge—a deeper set of information that comprise pieces of a whole answer. Maybe computers will never be able to understand what you're really asking the way a co-worker might. But a number of recent solutions are giving computers a way to infer deeper levels of meaning from natural language queries. Learn all about it in this article from the digital edition of Enterprise Search Sourcebook, 2009.
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Posted 04 Mar 2009
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Five Steps in Selecting A Search Engine
Seybold consultant Susan Aldrich identifies five steps for selecting a search engine in this advance preview article from the 2009 edition of our Enterprise Search Sourcebook. Download the free PDF.
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Posted 21 Jan 2009
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