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For several days now, Google and Microsoft have been involved in an increasingly bitter argument over Bing (news, site) "stealing" Google search results. That argument has now gone personal, in public, to the discredit of both companies.

Lotusphere has kicked off in Orlando, Florida today and there's a steady stream of tweets coming in already. Some of the big news is centered on IBM's new Social Business Initiative, packed with mobile, cloud productivity and a new social business framework.

While there is evidence that capture technologies are gaining ground across the enterprise, recent research by AIIM (news, site) seems to indicate that most deployments have been haphazard and not the result of a coherent strategy to improve data capture and enter it into enterprise business processes.

Cloudant has brought ad hoc search to NoSQL. The company has just released a developer preview of full text indexing and search for CloudDB. It takes all of the benefits of CouchDB and applies them to search. If you have big data, you might want to take notice.

For companies that having difficulties finding and tracking their content across SharePoint 2010, this week’s release of Attivio’s (news, site) Active Intelligence Engine for SharePoint integration will be a major step forward.

First week of the New Year and already there are updates for SharePoint 2010. This time they comes from KnowledgeLake (news, site) who have announced that they have added FAST search technology support to their Imaging for SharePoint software.

Google brought the fire this year with weighty moves aimed at expanding its kingdom into the social media and enterprise realm. Consequently, the Internet giant also took a lot of heat for exposing too much data and kicking out products that nobody really liked. You win some, you lose some, right? Here's a look back at the highlights. 

Last February Microsoft (news, site) announced that it was discontinuing mainstream and extended UNIX and Linux support for its FAST search technology. There was some speculation that in doing so it hoped that it could drag Linux and UNIX users into its Windows stable. However, Autonomy (news, site) has been quick to see and seize the opportunity this decision provided.

Last February Microsoft (news, site) announced that it was discontinuing mainstream and extended UNIX and Linux support for its FAST search technology. There was some speculation that in doing so it hoped that it could drag Linux and UNIX users into its Windows stable. However, Autonomy (news, site) has been quick to see and seize the opportunity this decision provided.

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.

Open source web content management vendor DotNetNuke (news, site) keeps to pace with the release of v5.6 of its Professional and Enterprise editions that include better search functionality, enhanced Google analytics support and new workflow enhancements.

We're closing focus on content and website optimization this week with a few pieces from the expert pool. Read on for coverage of optimization myths, what it really takes to promote findability, and, as always, an attempt at demystifying the whole shebang. 

In a previously published article, Information Overload and Improving Intranet Findability, we talked about overcoming challenges around our ability to filter through the copious amounts of data that we’re confronted with on a daily basis inside our organizations. Expanding on that topic, let’s now take a look at it from a much broader perspective, one that extends out beyond the firewall and into the digital realm of the Internet itself.  

Big G finally came through on a long overdue update to the Google Search Appliance (GSA). Among Version 6.8's coolest features: People Search, Dynamic Navigation, and the ability to search across both on-premise and cloud-based content from a single search box.

These days there seems to be as many Web Content Management (WCM) systems as there are programming languages. From Open Source systems to blogging platforms to wiki systems to big vendor Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and portal systems, we are swimming in WCM options. But whatever system you are using or considering there are some key strategies for optimizing your site and content that can spell the difference between a site that successfully drives desired behavior and one that simply exists on the web. 

(Note: This article was written with contribution from Fishbowl Solutions WCM experts Mariah Bailey and Steve Fahey.)