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Search Patterns - New from O'Reilly - Design for Discovery
As we all drown in today’s unparalleled access to mostly disorganized information, the holy grail for many has become to perfect search. O’Reilly Media (news, site) has released a new book to help those following this path.
Google Exec Says Desktops Irrelevant in Three Years Time
"Go mobile young man" is the cry as a top Googler (news, site) echoes his bosses sentiment on the smartphone being the way forward.
Coveo 6.1 Features an Outlook Sidebar, Enterprise 2.0 Search and Analytics
Being selected as a finalist in the 2010 CODiE awards wasn’t enough for Coveo (news, site), they just had to go out and make some more improvements to their enterprise search engine? What’s new? A little bit of Enterprise 2.0, Outlook and Analytics.
Semantic Search Company Announces Series C Funding
NetBase recently announced that it secured Series C venture capital funding. The funds come from Altos Ventures and Thomvest Ventures, Inc., and will be used to fuel continued expansion.
SharePoint Enterprise Search: Lessons Learned in the Field
SharePoint 2007 Search (news, site) is not often talked about in the realms of "enterprise search". But used appropriately, it can bring order to document chaos — as I found when my company implemented SharePoint as our enterprise search solution. Of course a search engine alone will not deliver a state of information management nirvana. But implemented wisely SharePoint can make your enterprise information a saner thing to manage. Here are some tips from the field.
Document Management Roll-up: SharePoint Gets Cloud Archiving, Salesforce And Microsoft CRM Seminars
This week in document management brings us plenty of Microsoft news including SharePoint (news, site) archiving in the cloud and a new secure cloud service to simplify doing business for the Feds.
Be an IKS Early Adopter and Enhance your CMS with Semantic Features
If you want to get involved with the Interactive Knowledge Stack(IKS) Early Adopters program then now is probably a good time to start looking at your options.
The Interactive Knowledge Stack, or IKS (news, site) has just announced details of how it intends to proceed with its prototypes: an Alpha Version available between July and September this year and a Beta Version — which you could be a part of — targeted for April to June next year.
Google Includes Facebook Info in Real-Time Search
By now it’s likely that you’ve either heard about or noticed the Facebook results showing up in Google, and, as the first time the search giant has indexed content from the most popular social network evAR, we think it’s kind of a big deal.
Mochila and Netseer Bring Concept Based Advertising to Web Content
What do you get when you combine premium content with user intent? A partnership between Mochila (news, site) and Netseer that seeks to deliver content-based ad units that are tailored more accurately to the user’s immediate needs than ads targeted by context keywords.
Microsoft And Yahoo Search Deal Gets Regulatory Approval
Microsoft (news, site) and Yahoo! (news, site) have been given the final approval by the EU to go ahead with a partnership that was agreed to last July. That partnership will see Yahoo’s search results being powered by Microsoft Bing for a cut of the ad revenues.
The deal has also been agreed to by US regulators without any conditions seeing the two take control of 30% of the search market — the other 70% of which is controlled by Google.
Google Buys reMail, Prepping to Boost Mobile Inboxes?
Apparently Google’s shopping bug wasn’t squashed when it acquired social search startup Aardvark last week. The company has gone and bought up another email-based startup called reMail, but this time the focus is on mobile capabilities.
New Mobile Meta Search Service Uses Google, Bing as Sources
Why stick with one search engine, when you can get the best of both worlds? New service, Gune, takes this approach to mobile search.
Google Grabs Aardvark Social Search for $50 Million
These days, staying away from Google is nearly impossible. Just ask ex-Googlers Max Ventilla and Nathan Stoll, who left the search giant to make their own engine – a social search tool called Aardvark – just to turn right back around and sell it to them.
Facebook to Dominate Webmail with Project Titan?
Facebook and Google just can’t stop one-upping each other. Late last month Google took a small slice of Facebook’s pie by tossing their Social Search feature into beta, but this week the popular social network took the upper hand with rumors of a fully featured webmail product.
Red Herring Lists eZ Systems, Telerik, Attivio Among Top Companies for 2009
The Red Herring list of the most impressive worldwide 100 private tech companies features some familiar names to the CMS crowd.
