The reason I know of eBay using Thunderstone is because I saw it from their search URLs. I don't remember what it was that I saw, but it was something that...
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Daniel Tunkelang
dtunkelang
Jan 15, 2009 4:24 pm
I talked to someone at Thunderstone about a decade ago, and they claimed eBay as a customer at the time. I also remember the person I talked to being ...
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Walter Underwood
walter_under...
Jan 15, 2009 6:14 pm
Ah, maybe it was FAST that wasn¹t deployed. It has been a long time. --wunder ... Re: [search_dev] Thunderstone Ah, maybe it was FAST that wasnt deployed. It...
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Daniel Tunkelang
dtunkelang
Jan 15, 2009 6:42 pm
I'm quite sure they did use Thunderstone at some point. What I've heard is that they never deployed FAST. But this is all second-hand and would not be ...
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Mark Bennett
ttennebkram
Jan 15, 2009 7:04 pm
To be fair, you say "... they never deployed FAST ...". I'd split hairs and say they haven't yet announced anything about deploying FAST. Mark PS: Just a...
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jennifer_english
jennifer_eng...
Jan 15, 2009 7:06 pm
Has anyone worked with Dieselpoint Search or Exalead? Exalead sales won't even get back to me... is that typical of their culture to ignore customers? Thanks ...
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Mark Bennett
ttennebkram
Jan 15, 2009 7:22 pm
Hi Jennifer, We know the CEOs from both companies, so let us know how loudly you wanna yell!!! :-) But we should take that "offline". What we can say here: ...
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Daniel Tunkelang
dtunkelang
Jan 15, 2009 9:26 pm
But FAST did make an announcement in 2001 which I included earlier in this thread: ...
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Mark Bennett
ttennebkram
Jan 15, 2009 9:30 pm
My apologies Dan. Ironically I had done a quick search for recent press releases on the subject, when replying, and hadn't seen one, maybe due the age....
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Daniel Tunkelang
dtunkelang
Jan 16, 2009 12:01 am
No worries. I know that things can get nasty between competing vendors, and that it can be reflexive (and often justified) to assume the worst. In this...
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Mark Bennett
ttennebkram
Jan 16, 2009 12:23 am
Speaking just as an eBay user, and a bit of a fan, their search is "interesting". I think it's gotten better over time, but there are still so many things I'd ...
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Daniel Tunkelang
dtunkelang
Jan 16, 2009 7:09 am
Well, you can be sure that, if they were to ever work with Endeca, I'd be the first to help them implement this sort of functionality. But, like Amazon, they...
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Sam Mefford
sammefford
Jan 20, 2009 12:51 am
Eric, sorry for the delay, looks like this sat in my inbox for several days. Bare-bones java ACI API sample attached. Sam Mefford Enterprise Search Practice...
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Martin Pratt
mbspuk
Jan 21, 2009 9:10 am
Has anyone here had any practical experience with a search engine called Grapeshot? http://www.grapeshot.co.uk/ I came across these guys a few years ago but...
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Charlie Hull
charliejuggler
Jan 21, 2009 4:36 pm
... Some history: Grapeshot was written by Martin Porter, author of the famous Porter Stemmer and creator of Muscat, the first commercial probabilistic engine,...
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Mark Bennett
ttennebkram
Jan 21, 2009 5:33 pm
Reading the verbiage on their site, "document DNA", I wonder if this is classic LSA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis I think Engenium was...
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Charlie Hull
charliejuggler
Jan 21, 2009 6:12 pm
... I'm pretty sure they don't do any semantic analysis. Charlie ... -- Charlie Hull Lemur Consulting Limited tel/fax: +44 (0)8700 118334 mobile: +44 (0)7767...
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Walter Underwood
walter_under...
Jan 21, 2009 6:18 pm
LSA/LSI is patented, which has pretty much killed commercial use. I don¹t know what the licensing terms are, but I never see it outside of research. Support...
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dtunkelang
Jan 21, 2009 7:05 pm
I thought the LSA/LSI patent (U.S. Patent 4,839,853) had expired by now. According to Wikipedia, "For applications that were pending on and for patents that...
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Eric Gao
ericgao
Jan 22, 2009 9:25 pm
Hi Sam, Could I have your aci jar file? It could be more easier for me to make the sample work. Thanks a lot! Eric Gao ________________________________ From:...
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Sam Mefford
sammefford
Jan 22, 2009 9:28 pm
That you have to download from Automater, would violate our partner agreement for us to forward. But so you know, I tested it against 4.9.0, and I included...
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Eric Gao
ericgao
Jan 23, 2009 3:21 pm
Thank you so much Sam! I'll figure it out. Eric ________________________________ From: Sam Mefford <meffords@...> To: search_dev@yahoogroups.com ...
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Eric Gao
ericgao
Jan 23, 2009 3:34 pm
Hi Sam, Thank you so much! I made it work. Very good! Eric ________________________________ From: Sam Mefford <meffords@...> To:...
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baxshep
Jan 26, 2009 4:53 am
Hey all, I'm new to this scene so please bear with my crass ignorance. I've been assigned to create matching queries to our "People Search" on my...
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Edwin Stauthamer
edwinstaut
Jan 26, 2009 4:06 pm
Try the "action=help" on the action port of your IDOL-instance (http://localhost:9000/action=help). There you will find what you are looking for under the...
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Baxter Shepperson
baxshep
Jan 26, 2009 5:24 pm
I'm afraid I've been looking there and don't quite see what I'm looking for. Any tips?...
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Stephen Armah
drbellowz
Jan 26, 2009 7:19 pm
Perhaps if you could be more clear about your objectives. Does "matching queries" mean you intend to copy the query string from one site to your own? Then you...
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Baxter Shepperson
baxshep
Jan 26, 2009 8:17 pm
What I have is a query page on my organization's portal that has different fields for different types of queries. I have been tasked to created Autonomy...
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Eric Gao
ericgao
Jan 29, 2009 8:59 pm
Hi Sam!  I have gone through help site I could not find  1) how to set certain search results per page (page size) 2) How to set how many results can...
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Sam Mefford
sammefford
Jan 29, 2009 9:17 pm
... I'm thinking these are both the same question. Is that true? Remember to use the online help: http://localhost:9000/action=grl You'll find ...
