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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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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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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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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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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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Search Firm Chemidex Changes Name to Innovadex
Chemidex, a specialized search engine for the fields of chemical and life science, as well as the world's largest repository of product technical literature for those industries, announced that it has changed its name to Innovadex. According to the newly renamed company, the move reflects its expansion into more diverse fields, including a majority of industrial, scientific, technical, and medical markets.
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Posted 15 Jul 2010
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CABI Debuts CAB Direct Improvements
CABI announced a number of improvements to its CAB Direct reference service. In addition to the more than 8.8 million bibliographic records and 85,000 full-text articles available through the platform, users can now easily keep track of research with permanent marking of records, set aside up to 1000 records for additional examination and manipulation, and export citations and abstracts into tools such as RefWorks and EndNote.
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Posted 08 Jul 2010
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SAS Acquires UK Software Firm Memex
SAS, a provider of business analytics software and services, has acquired Memex. Memex offers intelligence management solutions that help improve intelligence processes, enhance public safety, and prevent and deter crime, terrorism, and other threats.
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Posted 24 Jun 2010
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Deep Web Technologies Unveils Multilingual Federated Search
Deep Web Technologies released details about its multilingual translation capability using its federated search application. WorldWideScience.org, the international science portal, is the first application to be deployed with the technology.
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Posted 15 Jun 2010
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