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The popularity of smartphones is also making marketers think more innovatively about mobile search, with Auto Trader one of the latest brands to launch a search application for the iPhone. Working with applications specialist Endeca, the car listings company has introduced a mobile app based on number plate recognition. Car buyers can take a photo of a car in the street and automatically search for similar vehicles for sale in their area.

French search specialist Exalead thinks it's cracked one of the big challenges of search, making video searchable

Implementation of Meresco MDR & Search Suite

Attivio welcomes the opportunity to demonstrate the unique capabilities of the Active Intelligence Engine. Example of social CRM and Sentiment Analysis, 360 view of customer with recommendations and Unified information Access through querytime JOIN

Google is rolling out local search refinements. That means when you search for a local type query, Google may show you search refinements for that query. Google said the are rolling it out in the next couple days for 200 U.S. cities and will continue to expand them over time to more cities. Here is a picture of what the refinements look like for a search on [Maui]:

NewspaperARCHIVE.com had bumped up against limitations of having nearly 100 million records. After the switch to Exalead in December 2009, NewspaperARCHIVE.com has been able to scale again, increasing the number of records by 20%; while at same time reducing the amount of hardware by 75%.

"We needed to find a solution besides Autonomy — we had hit a brick wall with their solution. We looked at open source solutions but found we couldn't deploy them as efficiently or quickly," said Derek Fiscus, director of technology at NewspaperARCHIVE.com. "Exalead has helped NewspaperARCHIVE.com increase our scalability, reduce our costs and ultimately, improve our revenue."

The Lucene Connectors Framework (LCF) is an effort to provide build and support an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache SOLR. LCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies.

OpenUP is a lean Unified Process that applies iterative and incremental approaches within a structured lifecycle. OpenUP embraces a pragmatic, agile philosophy that focuses on the collaborative nature of software development. It is a tools-agnostic, low-ceremony process that can be extended to address a broad variety of project types.

OpenUP is a lean Unified Process that applies iterative and incremental approaches within a structured lifecycle. OpenUP embraces a pragmatic, agile philosophy that focuses on the collaborative nature of software development. It is a tools-agnostic, low-ceremony process that can be extended to address a broad variety of project types.

You can also try this method out; it was tested with the MSXML objects which are installed with Windows 2000. You should make sure you have the latest versions of MSXML and XML Core Services (see MSXML Downloads). If you download the newer version, take special note of the new ProgID you should be using — MSXML 4.0 now supports side-by-side installation, which means the ProgID below will actually use the older version

Have you ever thought that it would be useful to be able to count the number of words that have been typed into a text field or text area. Well here's a script that dynamically keeps track of how many words have been entered. Please type some text into the following text box to see how it works.

We've all seen countless articles, blog and forum posts explaining how to back up a server with rsync and other tools. While I've cringed when people talked about using non-scalable methods, there actually is a place for quick and dirty backup mechanisms. Small companies running just a few virtual machines in the cloud, or even enterprises with test instances, may wish for a quick and effective backup.

Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. Automatic graph drawing has many important applications in software engineering, database and web design, networking, and in visual interfaces for many other domains.

Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. It has several main graph layout programs. See the gallery for some sample layouts. It also has web and interactive graphical interfaces, and auxiliary tools, libraries, and language bindings.

How do you measure a successful Enterprise Search project?

In a move that might rewrite the entire search market, Google is rumored to be creating a system that will let allow web publishers to submit content to Google for search indexing in real-time.

AUTONOMY INTERWOVEN FIRST TO DELIVER INTEGRATED WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT, SEARCH, OPTIMIZATION, AND RICH MEDIA ON A SINGLE PLATFORM