Webhamer Weblog: Search & ICT-related blogging

• AJAX : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site

  ASP.NET AJAX is a free framework for quickly creating efficient and interactive Web applications that work across all popular browsers.

  ASP.NET AJAX is built-into ASP.NET 3.5. It is also available as a separate download for ASP.NET 2.0.

  (tags: asp.net todo tutorial)

• Google vs. Autonomy vs. Sharepoint

  UItnodiging voor een conference

  (tags: todo search seminar conference)

On their official Google Enterprise Blog, Google presented a few features of the Google mini. One of them is “date biasing”.

Official Google Enterprise Blog: The Google Mini gets a Not-so-mini Upgrade
Two very similar documents: One from 1998, one from 2008. We’re guessing you’re not as interested in the one written 10 years ago. If so, you’ll like our new Date Biasing feature, which gives greater (or lesser) importance to newer (or older) documents.

Come on… if this “feature” wasn’t part of the solutions already I don’t understand why anyone has bought it… In the enterprise search world sorting on relevance AND date has been a standard feature for years…. Google indeed has al long way to go…

DocumentWereld » Nieuws » ZyLAB presenteert nieuwe Whitepaper
De verwachtingen en percepties van de full-text zoekfunctie worden op dit moment qua functionaliteit en prestatie sterk beïnvloed door het “Google-effect”. In de meeste gevallen werkt deze manier van werken prima wanneer gebruikers alleen de meest relevante website nodig hebben voor het beantwoorden van algemene vragen. Mensen typen de full-text zoekwoorden in en verwachten dan de meest relevante documenten of websites bovenaan de resultatenlijst te zien. Problemen ontstaan echter als gebruikers dit zoekmodel zien als standaard aanpak voor het vinden van elke vorm van informatie. Mensen die gewend zijn aan de Google-manier van zoeken hebben vaak geen interesse voor, of zijn zich niet bewust van andere zoektechnieken.

Could Google’s ‘dataspaces’ reshape search? | InfoWorld | News | 2008-05-19 | By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service
While other vendors are pursuing similar goals, they cannot compete on scale with Google, according to Arnold.

“Even the most robust content processing systems have not been engineered to handle Google-level content flows. The implication of scale means Google is operating largely without competition from the companies profiled in this study,” he wrote in “Beyond Search.”

Meanwhile, Google indeed appears to have ambitious search and content-processing projects in the patent pipeline that echo the dataspaces concept.

One in particular, U.S. Patent No. 20070198481, “Automatic Object Reference Identification and Linking in a Browseable Fact Repository,” describes an invention that crunches together a wide range of data on an individual or topic into a kind of dossier.

Social search and collaboration is needed to continouesly keep the relevance high in enterprise search environments. As the volume of indexed information grows, classical search applications doesn’t cut it anymore. There are tools needed to “tag” high value information and guide the user to the information that’s relevant for him or her.

Source: Vivisimo Evolves Enterprise Social Search with New Velocity Discovery Module - Vivísimo, Inc.
The new Discovery Module’s enhanced collaboration features of express tagging—the ability to quickly tag large groups of search results—and native document export empowers search users to add their own knowledge faster than ever and to disseminate value-added content in its native format to colleagues and partners alike. The ability to easily tag, collect, save, share and archive documents by the thousands or millions through search queries enables powerful knowledge sharing throughout a company.

• Zo doe je Enterprise 2.0 - Frankwatching

  Bottom line gaat het om zelfsturende teams die in cirkels met elkaar samenwerken. Een organische manier van organiseren dus.

  (tags: toread enterprise20 business organisatie)

• ASP 101 - Quick Tips - ASP.NET to Excel

  Many users are so comfortable with Excel they seem to want to use it for everything. As it turns out, the real question most users want answered is how can they store data from a Web page in an Excel-readable format?

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• Knowledge Management for the Masses — Intranet Journal

  It’s been noted that tools such as OntoWiki and DBpedia are designed to apply techniques whose goal is to decrease the entrance barrier for project and domain experts to collaborate using semantic technologies. Why does that have to happen?

  (tags: toread semanticweb km)

• How to Create an Ajax Autocomplete Text Field - Part 6

  Deel van een totale tutorial

  (tags: toread ajax)

• JavaScript and Ajax Tips & Tutorials

  How to Create an Ajax Autocomplete Text Field in 7 parts

  (tags: todo ajax examples)

In the article on PCWorld the author points out that knowlegde of the user give context that serves as input to come up with more relevant results. There is only one search verdor that has profiling build in to the platform: Autonomy.
With it’s IDOL platform you can profile a user and use that profile (and agents) to issue search commands that come up with results that take the profile into account. Futhermore the Collaboration component can bring users with similar profiles together to share their common knowlegde.

But the future of search, particularly within enterprises, will go well beyond processing queries or parsing content. Future search systems will get to know the user — and communities of users — as much as the content it crawls, analyzes and indexes, observers say.

“Relevance is in the eye of the beholder — what’s relevant for me may not be relevant for you. Consequently, what’s needed is a profile of the user (interests, vocabulary, previous searches, job title, etc.) and a profile of the content (author, subject, date, who’s read it, etc.) Great search matches the two up

Source: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146052/the_future_of_enterprise_search.html

• Trends: Enterprise search: free as in free beer?

  Searching information — really, how hard can it be? So, why wouldn’t you go out and get a search engine that’s for free? Well, to stick to the analogy of “free beer,” you might wake up in the morning with a headache, only to find your wallet gone.

  (tags: toread search enterprise)