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By: Microsoft Delivers a Bundle of Joy | The Noisy Channel

Microsoft Delivers a Bundle of Joy | The Noisy Channel — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:11:46 +0000

[...] take: Microsoft sees SharePoint + FAST as a response to Autonomy + Interwoven, or vice versa–Microsoft’s acquisition predates Autonomy’s by a year. Both [...]

By: Lucid Imagination | The Noisy Channel

Lucid Imagination | The Noisy Channel — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:07:40 +0000

[...] the big news in the enterprise search space about Autonomy and FAST last week, the announcement of Lucid Imagination raising $6 million may seem [...]

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:27:21 +0000

Neal, if you click through the “Endeca vs. Google” link at the end of my post, you’ll see that I’m not exactly a fan boy for Google’s enterprise solutions–and that’s not just because I work for Endeca. I sometimes wonder how seriously Google takes its efforts in this space.

I agree with everything you have to say about the needs of enterprise search. Those are the kinds of concerns that drive my work at Endeca.

By: Neal Richter

Neal Richter — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:26:46 +0000

I don’t believe that Google has much to offer the Enterprise search space yet. I tested out their box a while back and it seemed very limited. We indexed a typical set of enterprise documents, did ‘popular queries’ and it predictably returned a big pile of self-similar documents.

Enterprise search needs structured search, faceting, browsing, entity extraction, recommendation, social bookmarking etc to make it more than just a search box that returns 10 blue links. I also believe that pagerank is near useless in E-S, corporate document collections are 80% not cross-linked.

My take is that E-S is wide open on two fronts.. consumer facing (to help them find what to buy and get service on, and knowledge worker facing to help them sort through the mass of self-similar documents.

E-S needs a ‘lens’ that learns from usage and /not/ a passive filter of information.

Disclosure: I used to work for RightNow and lead development of several large scale search engines for the CRM segment of Enterpise search.

By: Shake-Up at Microsoft FAST | The Noisy Channel

Shake-Up at Microsoft FAST | The Noisy Channel — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:51:15 +0000

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By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:44:53 +0000

They may not be putting much effort into improving it, but they certainly put effort into marketing it. And they are making sales at the low end of the market–not a bad strategy in a price-conscious economy. Everyone may know that you get what you pay for, but a lot of people are tempted when they see a low-priced option.

Moreover, the market is necessarily informed enough the perceive the differences among the enterprise search offerings. That’s why I’ve been such a strong advocate for education–my presentations may be good PR for Endeca, but primarily my goal is to inform. Of course, I know that a more informed market will given even more business to Endeca. But presumably our competitors have analogous sentiments–or at least they should, if they have similar pride in their offerings.

And I’m especially excited about the SIGIR Industry Track this year. I’m hoping to announce some of the speakers in the next days.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:00:44 +0000

How active is Google, in all reality, in the Enterprise Search space? I know they have an offering.. but do they really work on it? They’ve let other search offerings languish.. I remember there was a period of 8-9 months when Google Image Search remained static. Are they the same way in the enterprise?