Thanks for the tip re the risk of description tags and copied documents. Much obliged, Pete ... and MSN), ... ...
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
Dec 7, 2007 4:31 am
A colleague asked me about articles on search ROI/justification/business case. Does anyone have any good references that I can pass on? I intend to write a...
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
Dec 7, 2007 5:25 am
In thinking through the question I posted, I came up with a few bullet points. Perhaps people can add to these: * Building the search case is like any other...
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Avi Rappoport
searchtools1
Dec 7, 2007 10:28 pm
Re: [SearchCoP] Business Case for Search Applications Susan Feldman's written some good stuff (good, as in, showing how much enterprise needs search). However,...
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Louis Rosenfeld
louisrosenfeld
Dec 7, 2007 10:36 pm
Great analogy, Avi. I tend to take such analogies further (too far, really), but... who questions the ROI of public education these days? Yet at some point...
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
Dec 7, 2007 10:39 pm
I agree that it is infrastructure. But increasingly, search also needs to be considered an application - especially when considering integration of content...
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Richard Wiggins
richwig
Dec 8, 2007 7:11 pm
I do not understand your distinction between application and infrastructure. I guess I view things from the point of view of what the user experiences....
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
Dec 8, 2007 11:51 pm
My distinction would be having a search tool that allows for various mechanisms for surfacing content and tuning that system for a specific repository or data...
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Keipat Patkei
keipat1962
Dec 9, 2007 5:51 am
Wow! Sounds like quite a charmed world some of you work in. The sword of abandonning taxonomy projects because of the difficulty of proving its worth has ...
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Richard Wiggins
richwig
Dec 9, 2007 6:17 pm
Frankly, you describe a distinction without a difference. A user visits your site and encounters a search box. It matters not a whit what that search box...
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
Dec 9, 2007 7:41 pm
With all due respect, Richard, I think that kind of an answer oversimplifies the challenge to getting project resources and even what constitutes a search...
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Louis Rosenfeld
louisrosenfeld
Dec 9, 2007 11:06 pm
Keith (Keipat?): why not abandon ship? Some organizations are figuring it out. Some aren't, as is perhaps the case with your current employer. At which type...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Jan 9, 2008 2:00 pm
Hi all - In case anyone on this list is interested in yet more ramblings (perhaps sprinkled with occasional insight :-) ), I've recently started a blog where...
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Smith, Lisa
lisacabisa
Jan 9, 2008 11:24 pm
Categorization Analyst The Categorization Analyst will assist in the development and maintenance of rulesets to be used in automatically identifying products ...
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jamjam76
Jan 11, 2008 8:30 am
Hi there, I kind of like the restricted search support found at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/redpapers/ - the pulldown in the upper right hand...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Jan 11, 2008 1:07 pm
I think this type of search can be very good for visitors if: A) it is very clear to the user where they are searching (many will assume they will hit all...
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Avi Rappoport
searchtools1
Jan 12, 2008 12:02 am
From my log analysis: if the search engine's really broken, people will try anything, including pulldown menus. If it's working pretty well, they almost never...
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jamjam76
Jan 16, 2008 5:29 am
Hi Avi and Lee, Thank you for all the insights. Pete...
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Avi Rappoport
searchtools1
Jan 23, 2008 9:17 pm
One of my clients is interested in Entopia, so I was taking a look. I tried to go to the web site and it was replaced by one of those placeholder spam sites...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Jan 29, 2008 3:21 pm
Hi all, Although there have not been new member introductions in awhile, I just joined this group, and I'll go ahead and introduce myself. I am a taxonomist...
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Avi Rappoport
searchtools1
Jan 30, 2008 7:54 pm
Welcome Heather. It will be interesting to see how things work from a vendor side of the fence. I think that taxonomy classification and expertise would be a...
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schneider_karin
Feb 1, 2008 7:58 pm
Does anyone have experience with tuning FAST ESP to return only hits on exactly one word and specifically exclude the word in another context? e.g find: "Snow"...
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Richard Beatch
rbeatch
Feb 6, 2008 3:05 pm
Karin, I spoke with my search architect on this. He knows FAST about as well as anyone I have ever met, including the top engineers at ... I can't think of...
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Smith, Lisa
lisacabisa
Feb 6, 2008 10:24 pm
Can't say I have much experience with FAST, but that seems clunky. No utility to say "One word results only", huh? Is there maybe a way in the rules to do a...
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Richard Beatch
rbeatch
Feb 7, 2008 7:21 pm
While the approach may seem a little cumbersome, remember, searching an inverted index, which is a requirement for any sort of scalability, is rather unlike a...
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Smith, Lisa
lisacabisa
Feb 7, 2008 7:25 pm
Fair enough. Just seems like this shouldn't be such a hurdle. Lisa Smith Director, Taxonomy Business.com(r) - an R.H. Donnelley company 310-586-4198 office ...
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Walter Underwood
walter_under...
Feb 7, 2008 8:09 pm
This isn't as easy as it seems. What about these fragments with text after the word "snow": <tiltle>Smilla's Sense of Snow</title> Smilla's Sense of Snow,...
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schneider_karin
Feb 7, 2008 8:16 pm
Richard, thanks a lot. This is it! Please extend my thanks to your FAST wiz!! Regards, Karin ... theory, ... on...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Feb 8, 2008 4:20 pm
I'd be interested in sharing a hotel room (with a nonsmoking female) at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York May 20-21 (nights of May 19 and 20). It's not...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Feb 22, 2008 7:02 pm
Hi all - I've been considering various metrics for search as part of some writing I'm doing on my blog and one idea has struck me that I wanted to ask if...
