Jeff Potts: Search

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:02:12 GMT

Autonomy continues to try to justify concept search versus keyword search.

"Say I'm interested in the effect of oil pollution on the penguin population of Alaska. Although that's the idea someone is looking for they will walk up to a search engine and just type 'penguin'."

"They would never walk up to a librarian and just say 'penguin'. And that's the Google effect. We've been trained to assume the search engine is dumb and that takes a little un-training in enterprise."

The tough part is that a lot of people use Google throughout the day. If I am jumping back-and-forth between Google and an Autonomy-powered portal, for instance, how realistic is it to expect me to shift gears between keyword and concept search? I have seen the power of concept-based searching and Autonomy, specifically, but the "un-training" is much easier said than done.

"Search is going to become a lot more than typing words into a box. It's going to become about alerting. This has just happened, or this has just happened in your Malaysia office or we're getting an awful lot of complaints coming into the call centre about this problem with the product," said Lynch.

I agree with this as well. Maybe Autonomy should give up on user-executed search in the Enterprise and focus on behind-the-scenes alerting, clustering, and mining of unstructured data.

Quotes are from: Interview: Mike Lynch, founder of Autonomy. Silicon.com Sep 19 2005 8:36PM GMT [Moreover Technologies - Knowledge management news]

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:44:14 GMT

33 lines about 33 search vendors. In a short article in AIIM's E-Doc Magazine we organize the major search players into 8 categories and try to say something meaningful about each. Pay closer attention to the accompanying article -- also excerpted from the CMS Watch Enterprise Search Report -- "How Enterprise Search Works," by Steve Arnold. Steve describes in some depth the various subsystems that comprise an "ordinary" enterprise search package. Read on and you'll discover that search technology is anything but ordinary... ... [CMSWatch Trends and Features]

Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:30:06 GMT

Google Adds More Capacity to Google Mini Search Appliance. Google Inc. announced that the Google Mini has twice the search capacity at a more affordable price. The Google Mini can now search up to 100,000 documents for a lower price of $2,995. The Google Mini is an integrated hardware/software search appliance that indexes all content within a company's intranet or public website...The entry-level Google Search Appliance now offers search of up to 500,000 documents (more than three times the previous search capacity), for $30,000 including hardware, software, and two years of customer support. Other versions of the Search Appliance can index 15 million documents or more in a single collection. The Search Appliance provides enterprise-wide search across corporate web sites, intranets, databases, business applications and content management systems. http://www.google.com/enterprise [Gilbane Report News]

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:16:38 GMT

Lucene Finds its Way to the Top. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has recently reclassified the Lucene search engine project from a Jakarta sub-project to a top-level ASF effort. Lucene is a full text search engine that provides an API and a set of libraries enabling powerful... [CMSwire]

Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:46:58 GMT

Autonomy nearly doubles third quarter profits. Looks like the Homeland Security Gravy Train is an express.

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 03:02:54 GMT

X1 is "free PC software that uses an advanced indexing process that lets you find any word in any email or file on your computer, in under a second." [Scripting News]

Tue, 19 Aug 2003 01:41:25 GMT

DaveNet: Nutch, an open source search engine. [Scripting News]

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:59:10 GMT

Google discloses partial customer list [Yahoo]

The problem for us is that they don't seem too "partner-friendly".

Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:06:19 GMT

Gary Price reports on IBM's "Google on steroids." [Scripting News]

Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:55:45 GMT

Autonomy swoops on Virage. Video Play [The Register] [Tom Pierce's Blog]

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 04:02:31 GMT

Autonomy gets in on Sarbox...

Autonomy Launches New Division - Aungate. Autonomy Corporation plc launched Aungate, a division of Autonomy offering an automated solution for enterprise compliance and litigation support...to specifically help facilitate compliance and governance discovery and analysis processes which are being now legislated by procedures such the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and the Basel II Accord.[Gilbane Report News]

Thu, 22 May 2003 04:27:13 GMT

Autonomy and Novell sign deal. CRM Assist May 19 2003 1:18PM ET [Moreover - Knowledge management news]

Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:48:02 GMT

Search for Radio using Google API

Here is an EXTREMELY cool way to add search capabilities to your blog using the Google API. All you really need to do is sign up for a Google key (for your Google API searches) and use this code to add a nifty little search box to your blog. I've added mine below the calendar in my theme. [Tom's Blog]

BOOYAH! Great find, Tom. I tried this once using the advanced search through the google search site but I didn't have any luck. I've been looking for a reason to futz with the Google API and I need to search my blog so this kills two birds.

Mon, 28 Apr 2003 03:19:04 GMT

Thirteen Is Autonomy's Lucky Number. Autonomy endured a slight downturn in revenues to post its 13th consecutive profitable quarter. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]

Homeland Security contracts probably helping big-time.

Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:48:41 GMT

High-level ht://dig info and links to other resources
http://www.searchtools.com/tools/htdig.html

Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:13:47 GMT

ht://dig open source search engine home page

Installing ht://dig on Windows machines.