Stephen E. Arnold: Search Hits the “Big O” – Robert Steele Comments on IT’s Three Sucking Chest Wounds

Big O Explained: Why Systems Are Alike? Posted: 27 Jul 2013 04:30 AM PDT In several of my recent lectures, I pointed out that most end users cannot differentiate among search systems. The comment made about these systems is often, “Why can’t these systems be like Google?” I concluded that the similarity of requests suggests …

Stephen E. Arnold: Autonomy – New Kind of Search? Or Does Search Suck Even More These Days?

Autonomy: A New Kind of Search? Autonomy was founded in 1996. That was 17 years ago. In my upcoming KMWorld column for August/September, I point out that search, content processing, and even analytics have been consistent for many years. There are a number of reasons for the “sameness” of systems and the corresponding difficulty prospects …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Growth, Search, & Costs — the Google Killer?

Amazon: Unrelenting Growth, Search, and Costs I noted the Netcraft data which were presented in “Amazon Web Services’ Growth Unrelenting.” Amazon is a sprawling online services company. The firm hit on the idea of becoming a cloud provider years ago. The write up presents a diagram which uses a log scale (check with an attorney …

Stephen E. Arnold: Search and Business Intelligence “Merge” But Nothing New — with Comment by Robert Steele

Are Search and Business Intelligence Merging? Wrong tense. Search has been sucked into business intelligence as a subordinate or utility function. Consultants and “experts” suggest that search and business intelligence are converging. Information Builders, based in New York City, suggests that the alleged convergence looks like two equally-sized markets merging like a math book’s illustration …

Stephen E. Arnold: Email Gets THE HONK (Not Indexed by Any Search Engine) and a Free Copy of Landscape of Search Monograph

Email thehonk@yandex.com to subscribe to this unindexed newsletter, and also receive a free copy of the monograph by Stephen E. Arnold, The Landscape of Search. See Also: Steven Arnold: The Google Trilogy E-Book Stephen E. Arnold: From Bad Search to Predictive Analytics Snake Oil 2002 Arnold (US) Nomadic Computing: Anytime, Anyplace Access 1998 Arnold (US) …

Stephen E. Arnold: Announcing Honk, a Free Weekly Targeted Newsletter About Online Search and Analytics

Introducing Honk, a search and analytics newsletter free to subscribers weekly. Honk includes frank assessments of important trends in content processing and information retrieval.Louisville, KY (PRWEB) September 05, 2012 ArnoldIT.com and Stephen E. Arnold, technology and financial analyst, have launched Honk, a search and analytics newsletter free to subscribers weekly. Honk includes frank assessments of …