Enterprise Search News & Articles

Lucid Imagination (news, site), commercial provider of services for open source enterprise search platform Apache Solr/Lucene, has announced the general availability of LucidWorks 1.7 with a number of new features, such as SharePoint integration, that make the platform more attractive for enterprise customers.

The reinvention of the traditional search engine has kept many companies busy. And while consumer search engines such as Google and Bing may reign supreme, within the enterprise, search queries often require more substance and hearty discovery. Especially because the enterprise doesn’t always know what it knows, searching for information can be laborious, increasing the need for an enterprise search tool that can penetrate massive amounts of data.

Is video a viable part of both your enterprise content and search strategies? If you’re like most companies, video is getting more attention in the enterprise. According to a recent Forrester study, the pervasiveness of video has become a significant consumer and corporate trend.

Lucid Imagination (news, site) hopes it has found the solution for enterprise search with the release of a general availability version of their open source enterprise search solution. Based on the Apache Solr Lucene Search server, the release is available for free download.

In the last year, advancements in e-Discovery have focused on maintaining, managing and mining data in a way that not only promotes collecting, reviewing and archiving, but advances amidst emerging technologies. There a few key elements that defined e-Discovery in 2010.

We all love Google to help us find all things we are looking for. But the results we get aren't necessarily the right ones. Here are 12 tips to make your Google searching more relevant and productive.

Forward Search (news, site) 2.0 release aims to increase the amount of website and enterprise data you can search to better mine results and improve business intelligence.

Information management agility is about being able to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time. But what if there's just so much information that we are caught in a battle trying to find the things that are relevant to achieve our goals? There is a way to get past this information overload and improve findability.

 A little funding news for your Monday afternoon. BA-Insight, provider of enterprise search solutions built on Microsoft technologies, have secured a tidy sum of US$ 6 million in funding.

KMWorld (news, site) has released its list of trend setters for 2010, so what's making the pace in the new decade?

Why can't we just get Google? That's a common question often heard from all levels within an organization that is trying to improve the search experience on their intranet. In part one, we examined the desire to duplicate the Google search experience in the enterprise (you can read part 1 here). In part 2, we will examine shifting the perspective to the user experience and end with 6 essential activities to the construction of a solid foundation for any enterprise search initiative.

Search is an incredibly interesting problem, one that’s so complex in the background yet so simple on the surface. In this two part article, we examine the desire to duplicate the Google search experience in the enterprise and how we need to change what we expect from enterprise search based on what we’re willing to do to make it work.

Coveo (news, site) is back with a second serving of Expresso, their free enterprise-class search solution.

On Sunday, I attend the “Search Patterns: Tangible Futures for Discovery” session at SXSW hosted by Peter Morville, whose library and information science background really helps him to understand how things should be managed, so that they can be easily found.

He set the stage of the session with the metaphor – bad search can be like the Winchester Mystery house.

They acquired Funnelback back in June, now Squiz (news, site) has taken the next step and integrated the enterprise search engine into it Web CMS MySource Matrix