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"We all know the pain of a lost piece of vital information, whether a customer proposal, document, or important e-mail. The hurt became even more acute this year, as many were forced to comb through data left behind by laid-off colleagues. That's too bad, because the core technologies to enable federated enterprise search have existed for more than 15 years. Yet according to our InformationWeek Analytics Enterprise Search Survey of 552 business technology professionals, not even one in four organizations uses any type of enterprise search system today. "

I still recall a client whose "center of search excellence" employee insisted that federated search was something we made up, and wasn't possible. The same person who's sole job was to harness search, sitting in IT, couldn't tell us what versions and capabilities of the various search technology they had in place.

To paraphrase Bon Jovi "You give search... a bad name."

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Dated article - and makes lots of assumptions about certain implementation models of federated search.

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Blog on Federated Search sponsored by Deep Web Technologies - interesting coverage.

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>1 year old presentation on proof of concept demonstrating federated search powered via CMIS as connection point.

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federated searh on OS X - does it tie to Tiger Server volumes, making Spotlight actually useful there?

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