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Learn why it's important, especially in an industry like healthcare, to have people who know how to search properly and how important it is to have usable search technology.
0 replies - 1368 views - 02/10/12 by Lynda Moulton in Articles
There’s not really a setting in a search engine to make a disproving search versus a finding search. If there was, then many patent trolls would be uttering a long bellow of anguish and going back under the bridges where they were hiding.
0 replies - 1654 views - 02/09/12 by Jason Hull in Articles
Search is more than just findability. So why the fixation with findability? Out of 104 enterprise search scenarios, less than 2% were categorised as findability tasks. In this post you will learn about the broader, overall information goals for most search efforts.
0 replies - 1393 views - 02/07/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles
Read several articles by search experts like Charlie Hull and Tyler Tate. A great resource for enterprise search followers.
0 replies - 1800 views - 02/05/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles
I’ve been thinking recently about the role of ‘advanced search’, i.e.
the practice whereby some sites withhold certain aspects of
functionality from ‘standard’ search and accommodate them instead within
a separate search experience. Now,...
0 replies - 2335 views - 02/01/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles
A little while ago I posted an article called Findability is just So Last Year,
in which I argued that the current focus (dare I say fixation) of the
search community on findability was somewhat limiting, and that in my
experience (of enterprise search, at...
0 replies - 2520 views - 01/31/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles
It's time to brush up on your understanding of various search scenarious in the human-information seeking process. This this paper from EuroHCIR 2011 should provide some excellent research to think about. It’s also available in pdf form from the HCIR...
0 replies - 2619 views - 01/25/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles
The following is written with Solr users in mind, but the principles apply to Lucene users as well.
0 replies - 2477 views - 01/24/12 by Chris Hostetter in Articles
This is the first installment in a series of tutorials on creating the right search utility for your use case. In this part, you will learn how to make the right decisions when picking a design for your search box.
0 replies - 4213 views - 01/19/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles
Lucene's 3.4.0
release adds a new feature called index-time join (also
sometimes called sub-documents, nested documents or parent/child documents),
enabling efficient indexing and searching of certain types
of relational
content.
0 replies - 2122 views - 01/09/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles
This presentation aims to showcase how to build and implement a
search engine which is able to understand a query written in a way much
nearer to spoken...
0 replies - 1928 views - 01/09/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos
In November I had the privilege of co-chairing the 5th Search Solutions conference, held at BCS London
in Covent Garden. As in previous years we had an eclectic mix of
presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders
on novel and...
0 replies - 1990 views - 12/28/11 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles
The year 2011 is coming to an end and it's time to reflect on the past 12 months. Without further fluff, let's look back and summarize all significant events that happened in Lucene and Solr world over the course of last dozen months. In the next few...
1 replies - 3370 views - 12/27/11 by Otis Gospodnetic in Articles
Search is increasingly the primary information access mechanism, so
knowing how your search is doing often has direct business impact.
You’ve indexed...
1 replies - 2306 views - 12/18/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos
In keynote sessions at the recent Gilbane Boston Conference,
three speakers in a row made points about content management solutions
that are also significant to selection and implementation of enterprise
search. Here is a list of paraphrased comments.
0 replies - 2094 views - 12/16/11 by Lynda Moulton in Articles
