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What's New
Volume 2 Number 7 - Fall 2005
Verity agrees to be acquired by Autonomy
Consolidation continues in the enterprise search market as Verity has agreed to an acquisition offer from Autonomy Corporation LLC, a UK-based supplier of enterprise solutions for unstructured content. The press release is available on the Verity and Autonomy web sites.
Some of the most exciting technology available from Autonomy is its ability to index speed and video as well as text content; and as corporate knowledge archives in these formats increases, we believe the new Autonomy-Verity solution will become more relevant.
As one of the few companies with experience with Autonomy, Verity, and other enterprise search technologies, New Idea Engineering will be there to help you as these two industry leaders combine their offerings.
"Simplified English" Improves Search
Smart Communications in New York (http://www.smartny.com) specializes in automated translation tools for multinational corporations. By using their tools to translate English into Simplified English (using more consistent sentence structure and terms), they are able to automatically translate text into other languages, many of which need little or no human review. However, even English speaking projects have noticed some side benefits from this process of moving to Simplified English. Technical documentation becomes clearer, and vocabulary terms are standardized. John Smart (CEO) says that another positive side effect customers are reporting to him is that search relevancy improves.
We have started project planning with Smart Communications, and hope we can report more details in coming months.
New Idea Engineering Speaking KM World 2005
New Idea Engineering will be exhibiting and speaking at KM World in San Jose, California, November 15 through November 17 2005.
New Idea Engineering will be showing its cross-platform products that enhance and extend enterprise search including SearchTrack, SearchDQ, and its SearchAudit check-up. As one of the few companies that offers expert search engine consulting across virtually all major enterprise search solutions, they will also be available to discuss how they can solve problems with search implementations.
Miles Kehoe will participate in a panel discussion on trends in enterprise knowledge management on Tuesday afternoon, November 15.
Google Patents Results Tied To User Profiling
Google has filed for an organic search patent, termed Personalization of placed content ordering in search results, to serve organic search results based on user profiles. Essentially, Google will use search history, viewed documents, and other metadata to determine which organic results displayed to a user. Note that this is not featured links and advertisements, but the natural results that come from search. Read more about the patent at SearchEngineJournal or review the patent application itself at the US Patent and Trademarks web site.
This should produce some interesting results. Two people can perform the same search, and potentially see an entirely different result set based on their previous searches, viewed documents, and even potentially on geography. We've long suggested that user-specific content such as location and job role be included in enterprise search queries; and of course the Verity Parametric Search has the ability to do similar differential search. It will be curious to see whether the patent survives prior work examination.
DT Search shipping Enterprise Search
DT Search has built a good reputation on providing reliable desktop search technology. Their dtSearch Network product (http://dtsearch.com/PLF_Features_2.html) repackages this technology to search across the enterprise and supports multi-node configurations. Unlike some of the big players in the high end enterprise space, they actually quote prices right on their web site. We interpret this to mean they are competing with the small to mid tier players like Ultraseek and the Google appliance. Competition in this market benefits all of us. Tell us about your experiences with dtSearch!