He's got a pretty impressive background. Yahoo search tech for 10 years and Stanford PHD. We're not hiring fulltime guys like this at the moment, but given...
Yes, we are using it at several customers. We recommend it to all Ultraseek customers, mostly because we love IDOL and IDOL is now under the covers of...
Yes, Miles, you still have access to patches.py. But it has changed, so any modified patches.py could not just be directly copied over, you would want to...
... For the ten years that I worked on Ultraseek, we made it clear that there could be incompatible changes in major versions, but we worked hard to keep as...
... Ah, I'll admit others in our group (not me) are the experts on python / Ultraseek 5.x internals. But I've heard on this thread and from clients of...
I agree with Walter. In all the changes we had previously made to patches.py over the years, I only recall having to change our code once. I'm not saying that...
I'm glad to announce that Attivio has agreed to sponsor the 3rd annual Searchdev dinner in New York city, held in conjunction with the enterprise Search...
We have an opening for an experienced search engineer at Netflix. We are using Apache Solr, but experience with that specific engine is not required. If you...
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,...
Just when you thought it was safe, we now have a searchdev twitter name active. If you twit, feel free to follow searchdev, and please post any interesting...
Settling back at home after my first summit... Aside from the new (and familiar) ideas, it was comforting to see that we are all struggling with common issues....
I liked the 4pm session too. As I blogged<http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/05/13/reprising-the-enterprise-search-summit/>, the informal discussions struck me as...
Hi there, Does anyone have any success stories to tell re improving search relevance using data mined from clickstream logs? Any recipes appreciated. :) ...
An EXCELLENT question / topic. We think it's a viable option, IF you don't overdo it with the relevancy boost. However, Google claimed it's a bad idea (don't...
I have had customers ask about this as well, and there is a real danger of positive feedback loops. If you're going to promote documents with high clickthrough...
Hi Pete, I've used the clickthrough data for a bunch of incremental improvements, and once you have enough data, and kick out the rogue robot crawlers, it...
... relevance using data mined from clickstream logs? ... Hi Pete, We have being doing this for over 10 years - first for web search with GlobalBrain/Snap/NBCi...
Thanks for all the great comments! One question I have is are you: Relying on the clickthrough data from the search results page, and gradually demoting...
If your goal is to automatically enhance search relevancy using clickstream data, this is one topic I'm glad to report I've reversed my opinion. I used to...
Hi, Location: Edison, NJ Duration; full time position 100% travel MUST Job Title: Platform Specialist SharePoint Architect Job Summary The Manager, Technology...
Hi ALL, I am new to Endeca and want to have a training for my team in India. It would be of great help if anyone can give us training on Endeca. Thanks, ...
Purushottam, I forwarded your request to Natasa Koledin (nkoledin at endeca.com)--she's Vice President, Worldwide Education at Endeca. Feel free to contact her...
First let's make sure we're talking about the same thing. To me what Autonomy licensing calls "parametric" is the same thing as faceted search, not to be...
... John: I don't think I've seen any with Ultraseek - altho I've not yet worked with the new IDOL-based Ultraseek. What we have done is use Carrot^2 to...
Hi I have data related to shares from last 4 years.Any one please guide me how to use the solr search or any search implementation for this. If I gives the...
