links for 2009-07-01
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So before you head off on a big search, portal, collaboration, or content management project, invest the time to find out what's what and whether it's actually what's needed. After all, you may have been asked for a search engine — when what's really needed is just a browser. And likewise, you may have been tasked with setting up SharePoint — when what you really need is just the search engine.
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Lucid Imagination now resells ISYS Search Software file filters to offer content access capability to Lucene/Solr open source search systems. This clever move has the happy side effect of allowing Lucid to market the filters, a set of .dlls (dynamic link libraries) normally used in retail products for text extraction, to their own customers, effectively stretching its Lucene/Solr search product into the pay-for-service enterprise data field