In conjunction with the Enterprise Search Summit in New York May 15-17, you may want to consider coming to a pre-show 'birds of a feather' get together at the Hilton Monday night, May 14. You'll have a chance to meet other show attendees, compare notes on how your peers are using search technology and talk about the practices you've found work at your company. We'll also talk about searchdev.org the online group for independent search engine developers and users.
The only cost is your meal and tip - but we ask that you RSVP so we know how many tables to put together.
Details:
Location:
Hilton Hotel Midtown - 1335 Avenue
of the Americas
"New York Marketplace" Restaurant
Ground Level
6PM through 9PM - stay as
long as you want
RSVP by email to info@ideaeng.com.
New Idea Engineering needs information. You have it, and we're willing to pay. We have launched a new survey to gather information on how companies use search today. If you would give us five minutes of your time, we'll enter your name in a drawing to win an Apple iPod Shuffle we'll be giving away at the close of Enterprise Search Summit -- New York on May 16th.
Information Today will host its popular Enterprise Search Summit in New York City running May 14 thru May 16, 2007. This show has been a great way to meet vendors, hear industry luminaries speak, and talk with people in companies large and small who are trying to solve issues with search. And for the first time, Dr. Search and his search-care professionals will be at ESS 2007. If you've not yet registered for ESS New York, you can save $200 by registering from this link.
InfoToday also announced plans to host Enterprise Search West Coast in San Jose California in the fall.
Dieselpoint announces a new release of its all-Java search engine for indexing documents, databases, web content, and XML. The new release, Version 3.5.8, strengthens Dieselpoint's support for faceted navigation, a key element of Enterprise Search 2.0; and extends the capability and reach of its solid enterprise class products. You can download a full-featured version of the product at http://www.dieselpoint.com/.
Wall Street Journal today writes that context is key to future search. The well known WSJ speculates that future web search technology will use context to improve search results.
We're glad to see such good company join us - we've been saying for a while now that context is how we'll solve the dilemma of exploding enterprise content. Good to have them on-board!
Ina widely publicized announcement, Oracle has sued European competitor SAP for illegally accessing the Oracle Support Site with passwords for customers who had allegedly converted to SAP.
Initial reports were that the lawsuit, filed in US District Court in the Northern District of California, was simply for spidering the Oracle site. Since many companies use site spidering for gathering competitive intelligence, we are glad to see that the alleged offenses are more related to unauthorized access, not simply spidering.
You can read the text of the complaint in PDF format here.
InfoToday's EnterpriseSearchCenter reports that representatives from the enterprise search initiative at Microsoft and Google squared off at a recent conference about which of them has the right answer for enterprise search. It might have been interesting, but it sounds a little like Stanford and Harvard debating which would have done better against Florida in the recent BCS Bowl Game.
Still, it would be nice to see them both start to enjoy the kind of success their products deserve in many corporate environments.