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...
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
Nov 28, 2008 10:52 pm
Hi there, Earley & Associates is entering our fourth year of monthly conference calls on topics of interest to the IA/Search/Content and Digital Asset...
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
Feb 2, 2009 1:08 pm
Hi there, (Apologies for cross posts) This is going to be a terrific session. We will be hearing from Austin Govella, Stephanie Lemieux and Rich Tomlinson. ...
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Rebecca Allen
rebecca.allen12
Mar 3, 2009 4:34 pm
Invitation Please join us for our monthly Taxonomy Community of Practice Call. This month's topic is Auto Tagging Requirements & Advances. Date: Wednesday,...
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Bob Bater
bbater2001
Mar 10, 2009 11:59 pm
*Apologies for cross-posting* ============ INVITATION FOR REGISTRATION ================ "Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources" ISKO...
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Bob Bater
bbater2001
Mar 30, 2009 11:27 pm
** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING ** === EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT CLOSES 31 MARCH === "Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources" ISKO UK 2009...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Apr 9, 2009 3:00 am
Hi all - A question for anyone who knows Coveo well. I've recently started working with a team using Coveo and don't happen to know it very deeply. We have an...
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Bob Bater
bbater2001
Apr 14, 2009 9:22 pm
REMINDER: Dave Snowden will be speaking at ISKO UK's next meeting at UCL, London on Thursday, 23 April 2009 (16:30-19:00) DETAILS: Dave Snowden, Chief...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Apr 15, 2009 2:54 pm
Hi again, everyone - I just wanted to re-raise this question for the group - any Coveo-knowledgeable folks out there who have been able to get synonyms and...
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Tony Rose
tgr2uk
Apr 26, 2009 3:29 pm
Dear all, We're just in the process of drafting the programme for Search Solutions 2009, to be held at BCS HQ in London on October 1st. As in previous years,...
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Rebecca Allen
rebecca.allen12
Apr 28, 2009 5:15 pm
Invitation Please join us for our monthly Taxonomy Community of Practice Call. This month's topic is Global Taxonomy Management. Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 ...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
May 4, 2009 5:30 pm
Hi all - Has anyone here read the report "Search usability: 29 design guidelines for the search engine on websites" - which you can find at: ...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
May 4, 2009 5:43 pm
Hi again, everyone - I found the reference to the Nielsen Norman report on search usability while researching some best practices for implementation of an...
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
May 18, 2009 10:27 pm
(Apologies for cross posts) Hi there, Earley & Associates is hosting another of its free four part conference call series in June. Details at...
