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Ecology of social search for learning resources. In this paper they use attention metadata to model the ecology of social search. An interesting part of the paper summarizes new search options : Explicit search : comprises the traditional search box with text and filtering options based on multilingual metadata. Personal search : Looking for bookmarks from one’s own personal collection of bookmarks. MORE
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I have been discussing specialized search a bit (for example, see: Will Yahoo's Changing Search Strategy Cause it to Pick Up Niche Services? ). As reported by Venture beat , Google is planning to launch a music search service with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike, according to multiple reports. Of course, Google offers other specialized search services such as blogs. Specialized search can get you there faster. MORE
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Steve Rubel recently posted, Twitter Search Traffic Poised to Eclipse Google Blog Search. He wrote, “As of February, Twitter Search attracted 1.35 million users while Google Blog Search, which has been plagued by relevance issues, sits at 1.38 Now this is impressive for Twitter search but I am sure there is no comparison to Google web search. So, if my actions are at all typical I am not surprised that Google blog search is flat. MORE
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Here is a new report on 2011 enterprise search trends from Forrester, Enterprise Search: Six Key Trends to Watch by Leslie Owens with Stephen Powers and Anjali Yakkundi. The report indicates that despite the fact that only 10% of IT leaders will upgrade or expand their information access implementations this year, search experts are optimistic about their ability to deliver search solutions that are both usable and useful. MORE
While going through the hard times of finishing my PhD dissertation I joked about the time after it, suggesting that I might go into the symptoms similar to the people who retire and don’t know what to do with their life then. Well, I should know better what to joke about :). Now, waiting for the PhD committee to react on my work and preparing for the PhD defense I see shrunken horizons expand: once the PhD is in the past and I’m free to do whatever I want to do, what that would be? MORE
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(Leslie’s expertise includes: enterprise search, semantic tools, information classification, and taxonomies and I have covered her work before (see for example, Forrester on Enterprise Search Trends ). We also briefly touched on some of the current trends in enterprise search. Custom searches for call center agents bring in relevant content from diverse sources. There is also much work being done in federated search going across structured and unstructured data. MORE
Reading through the patent application itself , I wonder if this also proposal has applicability to Cisco Pulse (in an expanded view of what a search engine might be), given that the language also mentions a "webgraph". Worth reading the article below: Will Cisco gear become search engine toll collectors? Cisco has filed a patent application on a method that seeds search engine crawlers using intercepted network traffic. Will Cisco gear become search engine toll collectors? MORE
Enterprise Search Technologies was a preconference workshop. This workshop, by a vendor neutral consultant who has hands-on experience with a broad range of “out of the box,” open source, commercial, and home grown solutions, provides an overview of the enterprise search technology landscape. Miles said the characteristics of great search include conversational capabilities, open ended, flexible, and smart. Now you get what he called enterprise search 2.0 MORE
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I guess I’m actually searching for a format for a regular written reflection that goes deep enough and that is possible given existing pockets of solo time as well as the energy level during those. When I stopped working, one of the things I wanted was about doing more non-digital, observable things. In other words – living a life that could be more easily shared with children, because they can observe and participate. MORE
Yesterday I wrote about Focused Search-Based Applications as one way that Web and enterprise search is expanding. The Wall Street Journal recently posted an interesting article on this topic, Internet Giants Look For Edge In Real-Time Search. It started by explaining that, “that real-time search helps Internet users find Web posts, including those from San Francisco's Twitter Inc., Twitter is one real-time search engine and others are joining the market. MORE
I recently came across an interesting article, Twitter and Local Search: A Status Update , by Michael Boland, Search Engine Watch. Michael conveyed the idea that Twitter search brings structure to all the noise on the Web with an index of real time conversations. I agree and now, at times, I get better results on a niche topics such as SOA or Agile development through Twitter search than through Google. When do you use Google search and when do you use Twitter search. MORE
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