Stephen E. Arnold: Search Still Sucks

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 …

Stephen E. Arnold: Search Bottlenecks — Still There, Getting Worse

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 …

Stephen E. Arnold: Global Banks – We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Research!

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 …