Analysts getting a bad press – how can they do better?
It seems to be a bad summer for analyst companies in several sectors: here’s Forrester getting a kicking from Digital Clarity Group about their Wave report on Digital Experience Delivery Platforms (my...
View ArticleMore than an API – the real third wave of search technology
I recently read a blog post by Karl Hampson of Realise Okana (who offer HP Autonomy and SRCH2 as closed source search options) on his view of the ‘third wave’ of search. The second wave he identifies...
View ArticleElasticsearch London user group – The Guardian & Orchestrate test the limits
Last week I popped into the Elasticsearch London meetup, hosted this time by The Guardian newspaper. Interestingly, the overall theme of this event was not just what the (very capable and flexible)...
View ArticleA review of Stephen Arnold’s CyberOSINT & Next Generation Information Access
Stephen Arnold, whose blog I enjoy due to its unabashed cynicism about overenthusiastic marketing of search technology, was kind enough to send me a copy of his recent report on CyberOSINT & Next...
View ArticleRebrands and changing times for Elasticsearch
I’ve always been careful to distinguish between Elasticsearch (the open source search server based on Lucene) and Elasticsearch (the company formed by the authors of the former) and it seems someone...
View ArticleEnterprise Search Europe 2015 review – day 2
Not such an early start for me for Day 2 (I’d been up pretty late running the Meetup the night before) but I did manage to catch the very end of Findwise‘s presentation on their annual Enterprise...
View ArticleLondon Text Analytics Meetup – Making sense of text with Lumi, Signal &...
This month’s London Text Analytics Meetup, hosted by Bloomberg in their spectacular Finsbury Square offices, was only the second such event this year, but crammed in three great talks and attracted a...
View ArticleTime to replace your Google Search Appliance with open source search
As many others have noted, Google have recently announced their Google Search Appliance (GSA) will not be available for sale from 2017. Search gurus Miles Kehoe and Martin White have written an...
View ArticleA lack of cognition and some fresh FUD from Forrester
Last night the estimable Martin White, intranet and enterprise search expert and author of many books on the subject, flagged up two surprising articles from Forrester who have declared that Cognitive...
View ArticleElastic acquires Swiftype and broadens its offering to include enterprise search
The news today that Elastic (the company behind the open source Elasticsearch software) has acquired Swiftype will have surprised a few people, even though Elastic has already acquired a good number of...
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