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"...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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,...
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...
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...
Hi Heather - Well, it's taken me 3 weeks to get to responding to your introduction, but welcome to the group. Good to see someone from the group that I've...
Lee, Your description of what you want to do sounds a bit like something I wanted to do some years ago, but for different reasons from yours. I used an early ...
(apologies for cross-posting) This spring I'll be teaching a new day-long workshop, "Site Search Analytics for a Better Experience". I won't be focusing on...
Lee, really interesting posting. I certainly can envision at least drawing links between people through shared individual queries, if not query collections....
Hi Louis - thanks for your comments. I've got a decent set of analytics to use for search, though, unfortunately, at the moment the engine itself provides...
We are looking at adding a People/Employee search to our enterprise search interface and I am looking for input as to what other organziations are doing and...
[Long] You might want to look at the Web and People search functions at colleges and universities. They are generall openly available, unlike enterprise ...
Hi Lee, Yes, I heard about it. If I am not mistaken it is authored by Stephen Arnold, who in my opinion is one of the greatest ES gurus out there. If you are...
Good info - thanks! I won't say that we have a fool proof algorithm that allows free form searches but it works very well in my testing so far. We use ...
Tim, You raise some very interesting points. We built a knowledge base that we call Techbase and we have the Help Desk enter most of the items in it. We asked...
Richard, You hit on quite a few topics. Relevancy is key but the question is how do you find a relevancy that works? The answer is that there is no "one"...
Rich, ... searches and ... VanDyke, ... please send ... You might find the following of interest: http://www.mscui.net/Samples/PSIB/PatientSearchInputBox.aspx ...
Tony, Yes, indeed, I do find it interesting! I tried your sample search out and it does do an impressive job of parsing. I was able to fool it with this...
http://www.google.com/enterprise/csbe/index.html Is anyone here using or have you looked at this in detail for an externally facing site? Especially with the...
Hello All, Please join us on this month's Taxonomy CoP call for an in depth look at taxonomy project deliverables and communications! Date & Time: Wednesday,...
I just joined this group today and wanted to introduce myself. I work for the state of Oregon and maintain the search feature and browseable controlled...
I maintain the metadata schema used by Oregon state agencies employees in conjunction with their content management system. When the schema was created about...
Hi Crystal, We had to implement title metatags because our Google appliance truncated titles after about 60 or so characters. Note that Google appliance only...
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...