(apologies for cross-posting) Hello; apropos to the topic of yesterday's excellent Earley & Associates webinar, I want to get the word out about the fall...
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Tony Rose
tgr2uk
Sep 5, 2008 4:14 pm
*** Note: Early Bird Registration expires on Sunday, September 7 *** SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2008 Tuesday 23rd September BCS London HQ, Covent Garden Search Solutions...
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Tim
tbwendt
Sep 9, 2008 9:04 pm
Just curious how many of you are planning on going. I hope to meet a few of you again or for the first time. I also look forward to attending your sessions...
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
Sep 9, 2008 10:13 pm
I will be there for part of it. Stephanie Lemieux, Jeff Carr and Elizabeth Ricciardelli from Earley will be there. Seth Seth Earley President ...
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Walter Underwood
walter_under...
Sep 16, 2008 5:27 pm
I finally got around to writing up my comments on A/B testing for evaluating search engines. See my post on ³kitten war² testing: ...
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Jim
jsmithjci
Sep 17, 2008 2:26 pm
Thanks for the wonderful summary. We've already selected a vendor, what we are using this for is to improve the usability of the presentation and confirm...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Oct 1, 2008 5:06 pm
Yes, thanks, Walter. :-) In case anyone's interested, I've written up my previous post (in response to Crystal) about a methodology for evaluating search...
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Bob Bater
bbater2001
Oct 3, 2008 12:08 am
***Apologies for cross-posting*** We would like to invite you to a half-day event organized by the British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Oct 13, 2008 2:41 am
Hi all - I don't know if this is common, but I've seen a particular scenario play out many times in recent years on my own company's web sites (primarily...
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sachieatearley
Oct 21, 2008 4:49 pm
Call in each week to hear from world-class expert practitioners and consultants and be exposed to tools from select vendors. Presenters Include: Sherman...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Oct 24, 2008 4:26 pm
Hi all - I use a couple of aggregate RSS feeds for some topics in the content / search / taxonomy space, but I don't know of any aggregate feed for blogs...
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Dave Lemen
davelemen
Oct 24, 2008 6:04 pm
Hi Lee, ... I use the Google Reader, which allows me to tag each feed I subscribe to with a category. I have several feeds tagged with "enterprise-search". By...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Oct 24, 2008 6:07 pm
Thanks, Dave - I use Google Reader as well and have the same thought. That being said, I can't necessarily keep up with knowing what are all of the blogs I...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Nov 5, 2008 4:04 pm
Hi all - Sorry for the "blog spam" but I recently completed a series of posts on my blog about the inclusion of "people search" within an enterprise search...
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Tim
tbwendt
Nov 5, 2008 5:54 pm
Lee - good blogs on People Search. People Search is my life at the moment. You goals and plan are solid. We are doing a similar pilot within our company....
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poserdoser
Nov 7, 2008 7:52 am
Hi, I have a customer who is interested in setting up sponsored links/best bets with their IDOL server. Can anyone provide a good solution for doing so?...
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Tim
tbwendt
Nov 7, 2008 2:30 pm
We've tried two approaches. First, per Autonomy's recommendation we used the IDL Rules database and Retina to maintain the Best Bets. Not so good. Retina...
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poserdoser
Nov 8, 2008 2:15 pm
Sounds like a good solution, I guess you just provide the results from the Best bets database first, but I guess this doesn't give specific hits on specific...
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Tim
tbwendt
Nov 8, 2008 3:39 pm
We provide the top 3 most relevant matches at the top of the traditional search results and the full list of Best Bets results in a pop-up window in the user...
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poserdoser
Nov 8, 2008 8:39 pm
... recommendation we ... company web ... query to ... tweakable ... about ... solution for ... I think I was to tired when I read what you wrote, this really...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Nov 10, 2008 5:26 pm
Thanks, Tim - I've intertwined my thoughts / comments below. Does anyone else have any experiences to share around people search within the enterprise? ... ...
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jamjam76
Nov 11, 2008 8:55 pm
Hi there, Anyone have any tools or best practices that help you analyze search query logs? Thanks! Pete...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Nov 11, 2008 9:20 pm
Hey Pete - I think to be specific, it would help to know your search engine. Can you share that? How are the logs maintained? Are they text? Stored in a...
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Dave Lemen
davelemen
Nov 12, 2008 3:58 pm
Hi Pete, Lee's recommendations are great. I'd just add these points: 1. If your logs include the number of hits returned for each query, you should spend some...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Nov 12, 2008 4:07 pm
Great adds, Dave. ... [LR] This one, especially, can be enlightening and high-value analysis (especially if you are supporting e-commerce with your search). ...
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jamjam76
Nov 12, 2008 6:44 pm
Hi Dave and Lee, Thank's a bunch for the excellent insights. Are there any analytics products that support this type of analysis? SEO applications perhaps? ...
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Dave Lemen
davelemen
Nov 12, 2008 7:05 pm
Hi Pete, ... Depending on your search product, some of this may be included. We created our own tools for log analysis. Dave...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Nov 13, 2008 1:22 pm
Hi Pete - Actually, if you're looking for some great ideas on particular questions or classes of questions to try to answer through log analysis, you should...
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jamjam76
Nov 14, 2008 4:38 am
Awesome! Thanks for the pointers Lee. Pete...
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Camozzi-Ekberg, Trish
tcamozz
Nov 25, 2008 10:13 pm
Anyone out there with MediaBin experience? We are discovering that MediaBin's search either looks at full text metadata fields only or one specific metadata...
