The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Search for a Person in China: Three Seconds and You Are Good to Go read “Welcome to Dystopia : China Introduces AI Powered Tracking Uniform in Schools.” The article explains that “China has started to introduce school uniforms which track pupils all the time.” The “all” is problematic. A student equipped with the new uniform …
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Cloudtenna for Combined Cloud and Local Search Here’s a claim we’ve heard before: ZDNet declares, “Find a File Anywhere: Cloudtenna Targets Local and Cloud File Search.” Writer Robin Harris begins by describing the problem this upgrade addresses—an increasing number of cloud storage locations, combined with on-premise servers, make good search solutions even more challenging to …
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I have known Stephen E. Arnold since the early 1990’s when he quickly became the only speaker to be demanded by my international audience every year. I have relied on him over the years for truthful open source intelligence and deep insights not available from other commercial sources. Although he is now retired, I believe …
Search Is a Problem: Still a Clumsy Song and Dance Routine From the point of view of flailing content management experts, “enterprise search” means finding information in a usually flawed, Rube Goldberg construct called a CMS or content management system. Against this wallpaper with my scrawled biases, I read “Diagnosing Enterprise Search Failures.” The pivot point …
Speeding Up Search: The Challenge of Multiple Bottlenecks I read “Search at Scale Shows ~30,000X Speed Up.” I have been down this asphalt road before, many times in fact. The problem with search and retrieval is that numerous bottlenecks exist; for example, dealing with exceptions (content which the content processing system cannot manipulate). I wish …
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Financial Research: Rumblings Get Louder Regulations are having causing small tremors in the high altitude research business. I read “U.S. Asset Managers Shake Up Equity research as Banks Cut Back.” The write up offered several pieces of intelligence which might be considered “real” news. I highlighted this headache inducing statement for the providers of high …
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Casetext: A Disrupter Legal information is of interest to legal eagles. However, a business move by Casetext may cause pain at professional publishing shops operated by LexisNexis and Westlaw. Both companies pride themselves on their technology savvy. But a four year old company may have become the little engine that could run over executives napping …
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