Specialized search
Analysis of efforts in “vertical” search and single-site search, and other forms of specialized search engine. Related subjects include:
Mark Logic and the custom publishing business
I talked again with Mark Logic, makers of MarkLogic Server, and they continue to have an interesting story. Basically, their technology is better search/retrieval through XML. The retrieval part is where their major differentiation lies. Accordingly, their initial market focus (they’re up to 46 customers now, including lots of big names) is on custom publishing. And by the way, they’re a good partner for fact-extraction companies, at least in the case of ClearForest.
Here, as best I understand, is the story of the custom publishing business.
| Categories: Application areas, ClearForest/Reuters, Custom publishing, Mark Logic, Search engines, Specialized search | 2 Comments |
Google’s internal text-based project/knowledge management
Slashdot turned up an amazing article in Baseline on Google’s infrastructure. There’s lots of gee-whiz stuff in there about server farms, petabytes of disk packed into a standard shipping container so as to allow the setup of more server farms around the globe, and so on. But even more interesting to me was another point, about Google’s internal use of its own technology. In at least one case – a hybrid of project and knowledge management – Google really seems to be doing what other firms only dream about as futures. Here’s the relevant excerpt:
| Categories: Enterprise search, Google, Search engines, Specialized search | 1 Comment |
Product search fun at Tesco
Single-site websearch can be quite problematic. Here are screenshots of two examples:
Canned fish returned on a drain cleaner search
Rum returned on a condom brand search
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