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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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Discusses various "best practices" around SharePoint and search capabilities - including auto-tagging/classification extensions.

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Fascinating example of a crowdsource powered business - the secret is, volume, and yet unlike many crowdsourcing initiatives, the sources make money from their contributions, as does eHow as a business, by selling advertising surrounding the content (text and/or video).

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Browser-based "realtime" twitter stream, based on search terms you control. Quite flexible, seems to be very stable, built with a "presentation mode" to remove all navigation extras for "live" streams in conferences, etc..

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Fairly ancient post (2005), but still as relevant today as it ever was. Makes the case for permalinks that are MEANINGFUL, for search bots as well as for people.

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Findability of a different sort - Google Audio Indexing (or GAUDI - not the architect, nor the Alan Parsons album) is up and running in the Google Labs, enabling text-based search of political videos on YouTube. Again, more than one way to approach findab

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Many paths to audio search - in this case, you take an iPhone, an iPhone app (Shazam), turn on the mic for Shazam to listen to a clip (playing on your car radio perhaps), and matches the clip to find the artist, album, etc.. Findability - it's not just se

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Brief writeup by Martin Edwards - Appreciate the coverage, but disagree that any of our research is slanted towards selling technology (for anyone). Seemed quite clear to me that we're saying technology isn't the answer by itself, and search definitely is

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Ron Miller asked for some commentary on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset, and he's once again pulled together an interesting article on the world of search. See todays aiimALERT for more commentary as well. Thanks Ron!

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Thanks for the tweet @dberlind... AIIM: Survey reveals 82% strongly agreed or agreed that finding information on the Web was easier than finding information in organizations.

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Deeper dive into our forthcoming Findings on Findability. Chris Lynch interviewed Carl Frappaolo to peel beneath our initially shocking findings. Thanks for the coverage Chris.

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Our Findings on Findability Failings (leads the article) seem to be resonating pretty deeply. Thanks for the coverage Ericka.

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Referencing AIIM Market Intelligence data on Findability and Enterprise Search

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Always heartening to see Taxonomy practitioners who not only see that taxonomy is not just about navigation, but explains it well. There's more to Findability than search OR navigation folks.

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Interesting demo of partial word completion on mobiles, via kannuu. Alternative to type-ahead, similar end result.

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If you don't already know David Weinberger's blog, or his many books, please stop now and get thee to a browser, Kindle, library, bookstore. He's seen the future coming from quite a ways away. David is on our Enterprise 2.0 Advisory Panel as well.

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Adsense ads turn up the strangest things - here is a 'voice over' marketplace, for voice talent to use for commercials, e-learning, voicemail, films, games, etc.. Wow - interesting to see the market for niche marketplaces like this. If you have a distinct

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A French search company - just became aware of them, will be briefing with them shortly.

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A ruby module for classification purposes - anyone using this?

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links to NYT article on trolls that snatch up misspelled eBay merchandise cheaply (since they can't be found), and turn them around for a proper profit. Link to earlier piece on "metacrap" by Cory Doctorow a few years back

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