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NIE Enterprise Search
Volume 5 Number 1
January 2008
Miles Kehoe, Editor
Update Tues Jan 8, 2008: Newsflash: Microsoft is acquiring FAST Search This issue went to press prior to the announcement that Microsoft has agreed to buy Norway's FAST Search & Transfer for $1.2 billion US. Obviously if this goes through, and we expect it will, it moves Microsoft into the Tier 1 position and creates an interesting situation for Autonomy. Links to the Enterprise Search Blog, Search Developers User group, ZDNet, Yahoo!, Reuters -- and many others online.
Welcome to Enterprise Search!
We've been busy working on infrastructure for all our web content including Enterprise Search, and we're finally ready to release the first newsletter of the new year. You'll find Mark Bennett's annual review of the state of enterprise search; an article by John Lehman on a new approach to federated search from NIE partner Deep Web Technologies. We have also included an article on ways to index relational database content without the cost and effort of vendor-provider gateways that can add months to a project and eat up your budget. And of course we have both Dr. Search and What's New.
You'll continue to see changes throughout the coming year in our newsletter as well as in our other publications in an attempt to make them more useful to you as an enterprise search professional. Please feel free to let us know what you think.
Happy New Year!
Table of Contents: January 2008
What's New - January 2008: Big wins for Autonomy and Fast; IBM Yahoo! edition updated; and trade shows on the horizon ...[More].
2008 Enterprise Search Vendors: The new "Fab 4... and 1/2": Every year, NIE Chief Technology Officer Mark Bennett provides his 'state of enterprise search' vendor review, and this is our view of the market for January 2008. ...[More]
Real Enterprise Search: Guest contributor John Lehman, one of the original founders of Verity, writes about the challenges of federated search and how products like the new Exploreit product from Deep Web Technologies provides just what enterprise customers need to roll out what enterprise search should be. ...[More] A Cost Effective Model for Database Indexing: You can spend money and time to index relational database content, but we present a few solutions we have used for our customers that provide most of the benefits at significantly lower cost compared to vendor gateways ...[More]. Dr. Search: Bulk Insert and IDX files: Most search engines provide a portable interchange format to dumping and loading search indices for one to thousands of documents without the need to re-crawl or re-spider the original content. In K2, the format was called 'bulk insert files' or BIFs; in Autonomy IDOL, it's called IDX files. A reader has asked Dr. Search how these two formats differ, and the doctor replies here. ...[More].Remember to send your tough search questions to Dr. Search at support@ideaeng.com.
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