Stephen E. Arnold: YouTube (7:54) Search History — Snakes, Snake Oil, and Occasional Lasting Pimples (Tools) of Excellence
With a special focus on Fulcrum, TerraText, and Verity.
Stephen E. Arnold: (YouTube 6:23) Enterprise Search Jargon (Mumbo Jumbo) Explained
Jargon confuses people interested in enterprise search. I gave a version of this talk at the Boston Search Conference several years ago. The video identifies the principal terms that mean “search.” — Stephen E Arnold, april 2014 See Also: Enterprise search requirements Enterprise Search Costs: Some Observations
Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source Search Sucks, Google Hides, Norvig’s Law Skins Singularity
Open Source Search: Just Like Good Old Proprietary Search The more search changes, the more it remains the same it seems. Come to think of it: Most of today’s vendors are following the scripts written for Fulcrum Technologies and Verity who stomped around the C suite in the 1980s. Is the search sector running an …
Stephen E. Arnold: Imagine the Internet Without Search Engines — or Google — or IBM
PART I Imagine the Internet without Search Engines Centrifuge Systems proposes an interesting idea in “Big Data Discovery Without Link Analysis Is Like The Web Without Google.” Centrifuge Systems asks readers of the short article to imagine using the Internet without a search engine. How would we locate information? It would be similar to the …
Stephen E. Arnold: Search Big Data Flim-Flam – And One Open Source Search of Compressed Files with SQL (RainStor)
Search and Big Data: Been There, Done That Is the use of search to find information in large collections of content revolutionary? Er, no. What about using search to locate an Internet Protocol address in a repository of monitored email traffic? Er, no. With the chatter on LinkedIn and the vacuous news releases from some …
Stephen E. Arnold: Elasticsearch: 70:30 Odds as the Next Big Thing in Search — and Open Source Tool to Boot
Elasticsearch: 70:30 Odds as the Next Big Thing in Search We learned on March 26, 2014 suggesting that the German search vendor Intrafind has been looking for the next big thing. The company may have found it, and we expect that this low profile vendor will be plugging into the Elasticsearch power cable. Wikipedia already …
Stephen E. Arnold: Google Is Yesterday: Apps, Not Search, the Future – Comment by Robert Steele
Google Is Yesterday: Apps, Not Search, the Future I read “Google Searches for role in App Age.” This is a for fee item, so you will need to pony up money or buy a copy of the dead tree edition of the March 10, 2014, Wall Street Journal. If you have a WSJ account, here’s …
