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Internet Search meets the Desktop

  posted: 4/1/2007 12:00:01 PST


The use of a search engine has become the starting point for most users on the Internet, so much that Internet browsers have built in access for the most popular search engines. Using a search engine has become so common that many spend hours a day looking through the search results attempting to find information on external web sites. While Internet search is extremely valuable, most organizations create a wealth of knowledge that is locked in internal documents and electronic mail that is not easily searchable. Most applications have built in search capabilities using the basic find feature, but the document must be located first and then loaded before it can be searched. Even Microsoft has found this to be true and has attempted to solve this problem ...


Evolution of Search

  posted: 3/1/2007 12:00:01 PST


The Internet revolution drove every company towards creating a web site. Yahoo! was one of the first locations where this new information age was organized. Very much like an on-line yellow pages, this was directory organized into hierarchies based on the type of organization or services offered. This was and still is a manual process of submitting a web site page into this hierarchy and hoping the manual operators would update the directory in a timely manner. Very little automation was available and many new search engine submittal services showed up to facilitate this, all at a price.


Search Appliances

  posted: 2/1/2007 12:00:01 PST


Mostly everyone knows how to search the Internet and how to use the Edit - Find feature of their favorite applications, like Word or Outlook. Microsoft tried to make Search easier with the Windows Explorer Search feature built into the navigation toolbar featuring a friendly search dog (that even does cute tricks). It was the Google Desktop that raised the bar on Search for the normal Windows user with simple download and install by offering the unique capability of finding documents very quickly in almost any format including in email mailbox databases.


Ensuring Data Integrity with the ONEZEEK Search Appliance

  posted: 9/9/2006 12:00:01 PST


Most of the corporations are employing search services for intranet and especially Internet data mining. Networked application servers provide an convenient enhancement to the corporate intranet. A company's most precious assets are contained in its information, including Office Documents and Electronic Mail, it is essential that data integrity and availability is ensured.

Black Tulip's OneZeek Search Appliance provides a comprehensive search solution for Office Documents. Managed through an intuitive, portable Web-based console, the system provides a centralized search engine, event reporting and indexing engine configuration. Search engine indexing takes place in the background as new documents are added or modified. In addition, multiple OneZeek search servers ...


Why Automate Context Search

  posted: 9/1/2005 12:00:01 PST


Webster's definition of context is: The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning.

How do we determine the context of a particular word in a document? We need to read the document and interpret what is the context for each content area. This historically has been a tedious manual task and thus has been done only for specialized needs. Today, context search engines still require the user to determine what context you will attach to documents.

As documents are saved a pop-up window requires the publisher to fill in a "meta-data" abstract for that document, to be saved in a database that will allow the document to be retrieved through a search tool. Besides the time consuming process ...


The Future... in Context of Search Technology

  posted: 8/1/2005 12:00:01 PST


As companies are flooded with more and more data from internal documents, it becomes increasingly important to have the ability to locate and retrieve vital information. This has always been the case for legal discovery, and with the introduction of compliance requirements this necessity is quickly being acknowledged across the enterprise and small business environments.

Faced with increasing volumes of information many companies have had to face the reality that simple keyword searches just aren't useful in the business environment. Companies have had to address the fact that in toay's busines that 80% of information is in the form of unstructured files and not held in corporate databases. Not only has this proved challenging under the ever-changing shadow ...


The Solution... in Context of True Relevancy

  posted: 7/1/2005 12:00:01 PST


Context Around Content: Contextual search ensures that the meaning surrounding a particular phrase or word is relevant to the search criteria.

In today's business environment valuable enterprise information is spread across an array of disconnected repositories: multiple servers, proprietary databases, content management systems, e-mail servers, customer relationship management solutions, individual hard drives, portals, intranets, help desk applications, industry-specific content sources, to name a few.

Between all the different structured and unstructured systems, it is extremely valuable to have a search tool that can locate and retrieve content. The realization of today's industry leading companies is that current keyword search and even those ...


The Problem... in Context of Information Overload

  posted: 6/1/2005 12:00:01 PST


The challenges to modern day information intensive enterprises are increasing tenfold as companies work toward efficiently managing the enterprise knowledge lifecycle. Consider the case of Mary, a coporate executive with a global investment firm who is tasked with leading the development of an intranet portal used to provide a single source archive where employees can locate important corporate documents.

- Mary begines by searching the current Intranet for documents, articles and information relating to many diverse topics that will be available to search in the portal. With the copious amounts of information spread across servers, proprietary databases, local hard drives and corporate archives, this research can take months, particulary if Mary's only tools ...