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What's New

Volume 2 Number 7 - July/August 2005

IBM Releases Open Source Search Engine Tools

IBM announced this week that they are releasing to open source a new search and text analysis technology called UIMA for Unstructured Information Management Architecture. The technology, initially implemented a part of IBM's Omnifind search technology. You can learn more about the technology and even download the UIMA SDK from IBM's Alphaworks web site.

New Idea Engineering Speaking at Houston and San Jose conferences in the Fall

New Idea Engineering will be speaking at two conferences in the coming months. Mark Bennett will deliver a talk on Search Engine Data Quality at The Information Quality Conference in Houston Texas September 20. His presentation, Poor Data Quality gives Enterprise Search a Bad Rap, is based on articles from Fall 2004 and January 2005 issues of Enterprise Search.

Miles Kehoe will participate in a panel discussion on integrating corporate security policies with enterprise search at the KM World conference in San Jose, California, in November 2005.

Free Ultraseek - for a year

Verity has extended through the end of August its 'free for a year' offer for Ultraseek for companies and organizations with less than 25,000 pages of content. And they are giving away things they once charged for including the Content Classification Engine, the XPA Java API, and multi-language support. They also have discounts for anyone with more than 25,000 pages. Call your sales representative or Verity headquarters in Sunnyvale, California at 408-541-1500.