Hi Pete, That's interesting to hear about your having to implement title metatags with Google appliance. It's one of the products we'll be considering. I'm...
Hi all - I'm researching the pros and cons of the Google appliance as an enterprise search engine. I attended the Search CoP webcast (about a year ago, I...
Lee, You may want to review the below article and blog for a review of Google Search Appliance (GSA): Put to the test: Google Enterprise Search Appliance...
We are an Autonomy shop and that hasn't been an easy path. However, I do keep an eye on the Google GSA because we have so many users and executives that ask...
John - Thanks for the pointer. I subscribe to that blog's feed and noticed that article but it didn't come to mind as I've started doing a bit more digging...
Tim - Thank you very much for summarizing your notes. I had many of the same notes but you definitely caught a couple that had escaped my pen at the time. I...
Hi all - so this morning I made time to go through Louis Rosenfeld's slides on Site Search Analytics which he previously shared with us. I thought I'd pick off...
I must admit I've done some various analysis of search and I've never done one on word length. I looked at popularity and issues with general terms returning...
Hi again, All - Well, because I like to talk to myself :-), I thought I'd share some insights on this again. After noticing this odd phenomenon (a "double...
Hi Jim - I'm glad it triggered some interest, though I'm not sure of the value of understanding this beyond what I was trying to accomplish in the first place...
Wow, Jim! That's some great insight and I really appreciate you taking the time to write it up. Hopefully others on the list will also benefit from your...
... Hi Lee; my guess was that your situation was indeed "special". ;-) Sounds like it was dependent on the nature of your unique content and how it was likely...
Some of your most popular queries may be long. Right now, our top 100 includes "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". Autocomplete in...
... Louis - In terms of our search - I don't think it would make a huge difference. Looking at the data, we reach 50% of searches covered with a width of 12...
... Our Autonomy licensing model is pretty much unlimited if my memory serves me correctly. I think the only restriction was we can't use the technology to...
Hi, We are redesigning our KM search engine which will feed off our Remedy customer support software. I like to focus on the user experience and easy of use in...
Lee , I'll respond to your question in context below (My background is Mechanical engineering, sales. I moved into the Web in 1996 and have focused on...
The company I work for has about 50,000 people in our employee directory which handles our employees access to their directory services and public people...
It is very hard to find numbers on what it really costs for metadata, but here is one from a Netflix job posting. $6 per movie for "original, descriptive movie...
I believe we will be moving top Ultra spider for the http content. ... a much, ... background is ... have focused ... only ... of the IT side ... from the...
Three or four years ago at Verity, I adapted the Ultraseek spider/search engine to be spider-only and to submit batches to K2. That product was called "Ultra...
Hi, We have been doing some very interesting things with the employee information and ES: 1. Improve the relevance of the search results 2. Improve the reverse...
I have a related question regarding this, is there any research that the size of the query box affects the amount of searches on the page. E.g. a larger box...
Hi all - Late to the discussion here, but I thought I'd share the kinds of things we've done with finding employees in our enterprise search. Sorry in advance...
Just finished speaking a few minutes ago on site search analytics for Earley.com Search Solutions Jumpstart series. As we weren't able to take questions...