The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Enterprise Search: A Problem of Relevance to the Users There is no fast, easy to use, stable, and helpful way to look for information on a couple of terabytes of local storage. The files are a mixed bag: Excels, PowerPoints, image and text embedded PDFs, proprietary file formats like Framemaker, images, music, etc. See Also: …
Enterprise Search Lags Behind: Actionable Interfaces, Not Lists, Needed EXTRACT A Google results list with one ad, two Wikipedia item, pictures, and redundant dictionary links. Try this query “IBM Mainframe.” Not too helpful unless one is looking for information to use in a high school research paper.
The Congressional Research Service has never been more frequently cited or more influential in informing public discourse than it is today, as its publications are increasingly shared with the public in violation of official policy. But budget cuts and congressional dysfunction seem to have bred discontent among some staff members, judging from an article by …
Why Video Is Booming I read “The Average College Freshman Reads at 7th Grade Level.” I find this fascinating. No wonder folks are baffled when it comes to framing a query using Boolean logic. Little wonder that youthful search “experts” are clueless about the antics of search vendors from the 1980s. These folks cannot and …
Academic blogging gets your work and research out to a potentially massive audience at very, very low cost and relative amount of effort. Shorter, better, faster, free: Blogging changes the nature of academic research, not just how it is communicated
Searchblox Announces New Visualization Method for Search Results The brief article on Searchblox titled A Visualization Is Worth a Thousand Search Results relates the addition of visualization to the Elasticsearch-based system, Searchblox. Searchblox is an open source enterprise content search engine founded in 2003. Its customers range over 25 countries and include Harley Davidson, Capital …
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Another Good Enough Challenge to Proprietary Enterprise Search The protestations of the enterprise search vendors in hock for tens of millions to venture funders will get louder. The argument is that proprietary search solutions are just better. Navigate to “Postgres Full-Text Search Is Good Enough!” This has been the mantra of some of the European …
